India, May 1 -- Samsung should be walking into smart glasses with an advantage. It has the Galaxy brand, deep hardware experience, Google's Android XR (extended reality) platform, Qualcomm partnership momentum, and years of wearable lessons behind it. That should make its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) glasses feel like a serious Ray-Ban Meta rival.

Instead, the biggest question is trust.

Samsung has confirmed a broader XR roadmap that includes AI glasses, but buyers still do not have the answers that matter most: final design, price, launch timing, regional availability, lens options, repair support, and a glasses-specific software-update promise. Until those details are public, Samsung's smart glasses remain a higher-risk early...