New Delhi, Nov. 14 -- Samsung is slowly building a big Android XR story around the Galaxy XR headset, and the Galaxy Ring may be a much bigger part of that plan than it first looked. Galaxy XR is Samsung's and the world's first device built on Android XR, and the company has already said that more products are coming, including smart glasses. Now there are signs that the Galaxy Ring could act as a controller for these devices.

An APK teardown of the Galaxy Ring Manager app has revealed a telling line of code that mentions "ring gesture for glasses". That small phrase points to a clear idea. Samsung seems to be working on a way to let people control Android XR devices with hand and finger movements made while wearing the ring. Since those...