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Nov 16, 2024G4-037Moving target

Maeil Business: Samsung eyes 500,000 AI glasses for Q3 2025

Samsung, Google and Qualcomm were reported to plan an initial run of 500,000 AI smart glasses for the third quarter of 2025.

Lee Deok-joo reported for Maeil Business Newspaper that Samsung, Google and Qualcomm planned an initial production run of about 500,000 AI smart glasses for the third quarter of 2025, similar to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses.

How to read this record

  1. What was reportedSamsung, Google and Qualcomm were reported to plan an initial run of 500,000 AI smart glasses for the third quarter of 2025.
  2. Who said it, and whenLee Deok-joo reported it on Nov 16, 2024 in Maeil Business Newspaper.
  3. What happened, and whenGoogle smart glasses was announced on May 19, 2026, 549 days after this report.
  4. The verdict, and whyMoving targetThis was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.Why: Google confirmed in May 2025 that its Samsung Android XR partnership extended to glasses, but the reported Q3 2025 launch did not occur; Google later announced smart eyewear for fall 2026 and. What the company published
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Partly right
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Wrong
It did not turn out this way.
Moving target
This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.
Never settled
The company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.
Not comparable
This measured a different thing from the number the company published, so the two cannot be compared.
No outcome yet
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Checked means the company has since given an answer and we compared it with what was reported. Details still waiting on an answer, details nothing can settle, details where the plan itself changed, and details we have not finished reviewing are all counted separately and are not part of that number.
Moving target
A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
Reported by
Lee Deok-joo
We read it in
Maeil Business Newspaper
Product
Google smart glasses
Read it at Maeil Business Newspaper

The story of this report

  1. Nov 16, 2024Lee Deok-joo reported it · Maeil Business Newspaper
  2. May 19, 2026Google smart glasses was announced
  3. VerdictMoving targetWhat it means, and why, is in the box above.

Who reported it

Lee Deok-joo · Journalist

5 reports in the Reporting Record. The one we have checked held up. The other 4 are not part of that number: 1 moving target, 3 never settled.

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Questions about this report

Did this Google smart glasses report turn out to be true?
Moving target. This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it. Google confirmed in May 2025 that its Samsung Android XR partnership extended to glasses, but the reported Q3 2025 launch did not occur; Google later announced smart eyewear for fall 2026 and.
Who reported it first?
Lee Deok-joo reported it on Nov 16, 2024 in Maeil Business Newspaper.
How far ahead of the announcement was it?
That was 549 days before Google smart glasses was announced on May 19, 2026.