Qualcomm and Microsoft partner to develop chips for AR glasses for Metaverse

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon announces partnership with Microsoft in AR

Qualcomm announced a partnership with Microsoft in the AR field at the CES 2022 keynote on January 4th (local time). "Both companies believe in Metaverse," and Qualcomm will work with Microsoft to develop AR chips for "power-efficient and lightweight AR glasses." The chip will be integrated into both Microsoft Mesh and Qualcomm's Snapdragon Spaces XR platforms. Snapdragon Spaces XR is a development platform for AR glasses announced in November last year. It's available to developers such as Unity Software, Epic Games, and Ninantic, and is expected to be open to the public this spring. Microsoft has adopted Qualcomm's Snapdragon 850 in the AR headset "HoloLens 2" released in February 2019. In December 2019, Qualcomm announced an AR glasses development alliance between the XR (VR, AR, MR) platform "Snapdragon XR2 5G" and Niantic in the United States. The US Meta (formerly Facebook) VR headset "Oculus Quest 2" is equipped with Snapdragon XR2.

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