At CES 2024 successful Las Vegas, Qualcomm revealed the on-device AI capabilities of the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 spot for virtual and mixed world headsets. During a Jan. 10 keynote, Qualcomm president and CEO Cristiano Amon spoke astir endeavor usage cases for virtual reality, including providing integer environments for training. He suggested 3 questions VR and MR mightiness reply for enterprise: “How bash you bid people? How bash you afloat immerse successful that integer environment? How bash you germinate communications?” In addition, Amon discussed his predictions for the aboriginal of AI-enhanced phones.
Note: This nonfiction was updated to bespeak the Jan. 10 Qualcomm keynote. TechRepublic is covering CES 2024 remotely.
Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chips heighten mixed and virtual world meetings
The Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 is the travel up to the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 Platform for AI, VR and mixed reality. The Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 offers the following:
- 4.3K by 4.3K per oculus resolution.
- 90 frames per second.
- Supports 12 oregon much concurrent cameras for question tracking
- Wi-Fi 7, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3 and Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity.
The Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 has higher GPU frequence by 15% and CPU frequence by 20% compared to the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2. That helps the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 supply smoother “room-scale screens, life-size overlays and virtual desktops,” said Hugo Swart, vice president and wide manager of XR, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., successful a press release.
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“Our occupation was to make a computing motor that could marque that exertion (AI) tally pervasively,” Amon said during Qualcomm’s CES keynote. “We are astatine a constituent that those (AI) capabilities successful the processors and semiconductors are becoming available. The adjacent measurement is to make those usage cases and applications.”
For businesses and employees, that means much businesslike virtual desktops, virtual meetings and virtual demonstrations. Keep successful caput that this doesn’t needfully mean generative AI moving connected a headset; instead, the single-chip AI show helps support way of each the information required to merge integer and carnal images.
“Spatial computing (is) going to beryllium different computing level that is going to yet get a batch of scale,” Amon said during the keynote.
Qualcomm’s competing with Apple, Intel and NVIDIA
Samsung and Google volition usage the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 successful their planned virtual world offerings (Figure A) moving connected Android, which could yet compete with the Apple Vision Pro. The Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 presently competes with Intel’s AI PC technology for lightweight devices and automotive, arsenic good arsenic with NVIDIA’s semiconductors.
Figure A
The notation level for Qualcomm’s VR and MR headset. A notation level is simply a impervious of conception for imaginable hardware applications. Image: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.Qualcomm looks up to AI-enhanced phones
During his keynote, Amon discussed Qualcomm’s past successful the mobile telephone space. Developing chips connected which to tally AI represents an improvement of mobile instrumentality technology, helium said, but helium doesn’t foretell AI-powered devices volition regenerate today’s phones.
Instead, Amon said, “What’s going to hap present is the telephone is going to person a antithetic role, which is not lone what it utilized to bash wherever the telephone is bully for each the apps you have, but besides the telephone is going to beryllium communicating with the cloud. The telephone is not going anywhere, but it is going to beryllium enhanced by AI.”
For example, Amon said, a idiosyncratic mightiness inquire a generative AI adjunct to telephone an Uber. Instead of utilizing the Uber app connected the phone, the generative AI adjunct whitethorn link straight to Uber done the cloud.
Qualcomm’s car tech quality astatine CES 2024
Qualcomm continued the classical CES inclination of showing disconnected the latest automotive tech with its Snapdragon Digital Chassis platform, which enables connected car services for on-the-go enactment and beingness efficiency. Other connected car offerings from Qualcomm being demoed astatine CES 2024 include:
- Snapdragon Ride Platform, which helps planetary automakers and Tier-1 suppliers physique automated driving solutions up to Level 3 driving assistance functions specified arsenic lane keeping and automatically maintaining speed.
- Snapdragon Ride Flex SoC, centralized computing for integer cockpit, operator assistance and definite autonomous driving functions connected a azygous system-on-chip.
- Snapdragon Car-to-Cloud Services supply a mode for organizations to propulsion upgrades to connected car services.
- A highly businesslike cloud-native situation for automotive exertion improvement and deployment provided successful collaboration with AWS.
- Snapdragon Digital Chassis SoCs for Two-wheelers for tiny vehicles and cultivation oregon farming vehicles.
One of the upgrades is Qualcomm’s “next procreation Gen AI-enabled integer cockpits” for generative AI connected the borderline (in this case, connected the go). That means cars, depending connected idiosyncratic marque and app offerings, tin tally generative AI apps for dynamic updates of accusation applicable to drivers connected the road. Services and recommendations tin beryllium personalized, and apps tin expect the driver’s preferences and needs.
“Our committedness to advancing automotive exertion successful enactment of planetary automakers, Tier-1 suppliers and our ecosystem partners is helping signifier the aboriginal of software-defined vehicles and is accelerating america into a caller epoch for the automotive industry,” said Nakul Duggal, elder vice president and wide manager of automotive and unreality computing astatine Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., successful a press release.
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