Other leaks mention Samsung's smart ring and glasses. We have something to look forward to

Samsung may soon be expanding its line of smart wearables to offer more than just smartwatches and wireless headphones. He recently applied for the registration of two new trademarks Galaxy Ring a Galaxy Glasses. The latter could be the name for an upcoming augmented and virtual reality headset that the company mentioned at a recent event Galaxy Unpacked.

According to a Korean online service CYPRUS (Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service), Samsung applied for trademark registration Galaxy Ring on February 23. The Korean giant describes Galaxy Ring as "a smart device for measuring health indicators and/or sleep in the form of a ring".

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Samsung didn't reveal any other details in the request, but it's not the first time we've come across the informaceme about a smart wearable device of this kind. Last October, Korean media reported that Samsung was working on a smart ring that could monitor the wearer's health and activities. And in 2021, the company filed a patent application for a smart ring with the US Patent Office.

Samsung at the event Galaxy On February 1, Unpacked announced that it had teamed up with Google and Qualcomm to develop an augmented and virtual reality headset. According to KIPRIS could this device be named Galaxy Glasses. Or Samsung trademarked the name just to prevent anyone else from using it. Either way, Galaxy Glasses are classified into five product categories including "Virtual Reality Experience Headset", "Smart Glasses", "Smartphone", "Augmented Reality Experience Headset" and "Headphones".

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This classification suggests that the device has built-in smartphone and headset-like functionality and can provide separate virtual and augmented reality (or mixed reality) experiences. Samsung hasn't revealed when it might launch the AR/VR smart glasses, but given that it's talked about them before, there's a good chance they'll arrive sooner than Galaxy Ring, about which on Galaxy Unpacked said nothing at all. So it is possible that the smart ring really only exists "on paper" at the moment.