At this year’s Meta Connect 2023, Qualcomm announced the XR2 Gen 2 and AR1 Gen 1 SoCs and Meta, the Meta Quest 3 running on the former and Ray-Ban Meta, the latter.
It has been about a year since Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Amon and Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a multi-year strategic partnership to develop platforms and core technologies to accelerate next-generation metaverse experiences at IFA 2022. At this year’s Meta Connect 2023, we see the first commercial fruits of that partnership.
According to Qualcomm, the goal of its XR , Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality ) platforms is to revolutionize spatial computing through three main pillars; “groundbreaking immersion, seamless in motion and realities reimagined”. While it’s always good to have vision, what does this really mean in terms of features and capabilities?For the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2, this means a beefed-up Adreno graphics processing unit that, according to Qualcomm, delivers up to 2.
The XR2 Gen 2 SoC also includes an updated Hexagon neural processing unit , which Qualcomm claims delivers up to 8x higher performance per watt when compared to their previous generation. The SoC also incorporates an ultra-low power, low-latency 6 degrees-of-freedom Engine for Visual Analytics . Qualcomm’s FastConnect software suite and High Band Simultaneous Multi-Link deliver WiFi 6E and WiFi 7 support up to 5.
Being designed for XR applications, it is critical that the XR2 Gen 2 SoC delivers on the rigorous visual requirements mandated by these types of devices. To that end, the SoCs Spectra image signal processor was also improved with geometric correction, noise reduction, dynamic light range capabilities and support for up to ten concurrent cameras with the goal of seamlessly blending the physical world into the virtual world.
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