How Samsung's AI smart glasses will work with your Galaxy

Samsung has shared the first details of its upcoming AI smart glasses and plans to enter the smart glasses market in 2026. The company says the device will rely on AI and smartphone integration rather than acting as a standalone product. Jay Kim, Samsung's executive vice president of mobile business, discussed the glasses at MWC in Barcelona and in an interview with CNBC.

He said they will arrive later this year and include an eye-level, built-in camera. Samsung intends the glasses to act as a gateway for AI to capture and understand what users see, feeding that information to a Galaxy phone for processing. "Everybody talks about what the next AI device is, and I know I've been looking at many different types of devices.

Glasses, obviously is one of them, and everybody's looking at it," Kim said. These smart glasses are positioned as a different, smaller and less expensive category than Samsung's Galaxy XR headset, launched last year.

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