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Newsletter N°83 - December 2025
🥽 XR: Samsung Adopts Galaxy XR for Immersive AI-XR Employee Training
Samsung Human Resources Development Center has officially adopted a new AI·XR-integrated training program built around Samsung Electronics’ headset-type Galaxy XR device. The initiative aims to overcome the limitations of classroom-centric education by providing highly immersive, interactive learning environments for employees across the group.
Samsung employees participating in training while wearing Galaxy XR headsets
From this month, Galaxy XR is being rolled out across the entire education spectrum, from new employees to senior executives. Samsung plans to reach over 20,000 employees annually with this AI·XR-based training, using it as a core mechanism to enhance practical skills and leadership capabilities. In its initial phase, AI·XR content has been applied to five key course areas: meditation, Samsung history experience, leadership, foreign languages, and debate.
Samsung employees participating in training while wearing Galaxy XR headsets
Learners wear Galaxy XR and enter virtual environments where they interact using voice, gaze, and gestures, enabling intuitive, hands-free engagement.
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The program is structured around two main types of experiences:
Virtual time-space immersion:
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In the Samsung history experience, employees are transported back to 1938, visiting the original Samsung Sanghoe office in Daegu, effectively “walking through” the company’s founding environment.
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In meditation programs, participants practice in virtual spaces that authentically reproduce the natural surroundings of the Samsung Yeongdeok Meditation Center or other designed environments, reinforcing focus and presence beyond what standard classroom materials can offer.
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AI avatar role-playing:
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For leadership, foreign language, and debate training, employees interact with AI-powered avatars.
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Scenarios include one-on-one meetings with virtual subordinates in various situations, live foreign language conversations with AI foreign avatars, and participation in AI-moderated debates.
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This model differentiates itself from conventional facilitator-led role-play by enabling scenario repetition, personalization, and continuous feedback at scale.
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Galaxy XR itself, launched on October 22 in Korea, is a headset-type mobile XR device and the first to integrate the jointly developed “Android XR” platform from Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm, often referred to as the “XR alliance.” The device has already been recognized on the global stage, winning a CES 2025 Innovation Award in the mobile category, and is central to Samsung’s strategy to extend its business model beyond smartphones. Samsung is broadening XR deployment beyond education to real industrial environments.
At Samsung Heavy Industries’ Geoje shipyard, workers use Galaxy XR to inspect 3D virtual models of LNG carrier engines as part of a digital shipyard initiative.
These combined implementations—HR training at the Samsung Human Resources Development Center and on-site inspection at Samsung Heavy Industries—represent the first domestic example of XR being applied to both corporate education and day-to-day operations.
Inspecting a ship engine using the Galaxy XR
Strategically, Samsung views these large internal deployments as a way to secure B2B use cases and customer samples in a global XR market projected to reach around USD 1.5 trillion by 2030.
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The company’s domestic business sites, encompassing roughly 280,000 employees, serve as a massive experimental base to refine XR content, tools, and workflows.
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This is part of a broader effort to drive XR adoption not only in gaming, but in enterprise training and industrial applications, strengthening Samsung’s position in the emerging “post-smartphone” platform landscape. In parallel, Samsung faces an increasingly competitive XR arena, with Apple’s Vision Pro and Meta’s Quest 3 vying to define the next computing platform.
Through the Galaxy XR device, the Android XR ecosystem co-developed with Google and Qualcomm, and flagship internal programs such as the AI·XR training initiative, Samsung is signaling its intent to lead XR ecosystem formation and secure long-term advantage in this rapidly expanding field.