The Samsung Galaxy Xr Headset Comes With $1,000 Worth Of Freebies - Here's What's Included

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Priced amazingly debased astatine $1,799, half nan costs of Apple Vision Pro.
• Includes "The Explorer Pack" pinch $1,000+ worthy of premium subscriptions.
• Headset usage cases halfway connected immersive intermezo and master spatial editing.

Samsung officially launched nan Galaxy XR headset, and though astir specifications were already disposable pre-launch, nan institution managed to support nan value constituent of $1,799 nether wraps. 

The news came arsenic a astonishment to many, arsenic it places nan headset astatine half nan value constituent of nan Apple Vision Pro. To warrant nan value constituent moreover further, Samsung is including a number of free extras pinch nan purchase. 

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Accessing immersive intermezo experiences, specified arsenic watching your favourite show connected a surface that mimics nan theatre acquisition from nan comfortableness of your surviving room, is 1 of nan biggest draws to AR/XR headsets. To thief users get nan astir retired of nan headset and observe their favourite usage cases, Samsung includes "The Explorer Pack" pinch each purchase.  

"I deliberation nan immersive intermezo to maine is astir apt nan astir compelling usage case," Drew Blackard, SVP of Mobile Product Management astatine Samsung, told me. 

This package gets users complete $1,000 worthy of subscriptions, including 12 months of entree to Google AI Pro, YouTube Premium, Google Play Pass, and an XR Pack, which includes a three-month subscription to YouTube TV, a 12-month subscription to NBA League Pass, NFL, PRO ERA, Project Pulsar from Adobe, Asteroid, and Calm. That's a lot.

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I had nan opportunity to demo watching a YouTube video connected nan headset, which was automatically spatialized for an immersive viewing experience. Additionally, nan video was playing connected a suspended surface successful my environment, pinch abstracted windows for comments, adding to nan immersion. Given that it was 1 of my much memorable experiences, I tin spot really YouTube TV and YouTube Premium subscriptions could beryllium beneficial. 

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Other integrations, specified arsenic Project Pulsar from Adobe, were demoed connected shape to show really nan headset tin besides use moving professionals, enabling users to edit video spatially wrong their 360-degree environment. 

Of course, Gemini was astatine nan halfway of galore of nan demos, offering nan AI adjunct overlayed connected immoderate exertion nan personification had opened and nan situation passing done nan lenses. 

The Google AI Pro subscription, which connected its ain costs $240 per year, not only allows users to acquisition higher usage limits erstwhile utilizing nan headset, but since it's attached to their Google account, it besides intends they tin return advantage of nan Pro perks, specified arsenic 2TB of unreality storage, entree to Whisk and Flow, Gemini 2.5 Pro exemplary and Deep Search successful AI Mode, higher limits to Jules, and more.