At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Qualcomm
Chief Executive Cristiano Amon said during a press conference that the two
companies will work together to mate the custom chips with the software that
developers need to create virtual worlds in which people can work and play.
He said that future devices from the collaboration will work
with a Microsoft software product called Mesh that allows users to beam a
realistic likeness of themselves into the headset of another user so that it
feels like the two people are in the same room.
The future hardware will also use software from Qualcomm
called Snapdragon Spaces that helps perform basic augmented reality functions
like mapping out physical spaces so that digital objects can be overlaid on
them and hand-tracking so that users can manipulate those digital objects with
hand gestures.
"We've been talking for years about the possibility of
having wearable augmented reality devices that will gain scale," Amon, one
of the few major tech executives not to cancel his physical presence at the
trade show, said from a live-streamed talk on stage in Las Vegas.
The two companies did not give details about when the chips
and headsets would be available.
“Our goal is to inspire and empower others to collectively
work to develop the metaverse future – a future that is grounded in trust and
innovation,” Rubén Caballero, corporate vice president for mixed reality at
Microsoft, said in a statement. © Reuters
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