The future will tell if the game went well or badly, but Facebook has put VR on the table with its Metaverse, and the race has already been unleashed among other big companies to get on that train. Companies like Nvidia or Microsoft, for example, and Qualcomm also wanted to offer its own solution although in its own way.
We say in his own way because in his presentation of ‘Snapdragon spaces ”Qualcomm made it clear that it does not focus on virtual reality but that its new platform, currently intended for the Android ecosystem, concerns augmented reality. Thus, Qualcomm presented its new “Snapdragon Spaces” and we already have more than one company supporting the project.
Spaces is about augmented reality, not virtual
As we said, Qualcomm is moving towards augmented reality with its new ‘Snapdragon Spaces’, thus distancing itself from the virtual reality proposals of Facebook and part of its competition in the sector. The company is bringing its new platform to market and Spaces becomes sort of an evolution of the previous XR1 and XR2 5Gs, although we have found noticeable improvements in terms of interaction.
For example, “Snapdragon Spaces” now includes special mapping in addition to detecting shots and understanding the environment and scene. The Qualcomm platform is able to better understand the environment in which we will operate with the information that will be added thanks to augmented reality. Thus, the glasses that can be connected to Spaces they will know better where they are and what they have around them, providing context.
Although several companies are already listed alongside the announcement of Qualcomm in Spaces, Lenovo will be the first to bring compatible glasses to the market. These are the Lenovo ThinkReality A3 glasses, which we saw at the dawn of 2021 but have not yet reached the market. As collaborators or partners of this ‘Snapdragon Spaces’, we also find Players of the caliber of Xiaomi and OPPO, and it seems that in the spring of 2022 we will have a proposal for glasses from both.
But if we leave the hardware manufacturers out and focus on raw software, “Snapdragon Spaces” will feature giants the size of. Epic Games, Niantic or Unity. All of them will develop applications and different software to use Qualcomm’s augmented reality platform in its various aspects.
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