Qualcomm announces that Samsung and Google intend to utilize its latest headset chip.
Qualcomm said Thursday that Samsung Electronics and Alphabet’s Google plan to use a new computing chip designed to power mixed and virtual reality headsets.
The Qualcomm chip, called the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, can handle data feeds from a dozen cameras inside the headset.
The competition to sell so-called mixed reality headsets – in which a view of the outside world is transmitted to the user via cameras – is expected to heat up this year with the release of Apple’s Vision Pro headset.
TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the iPhone maker could start selling the $3,500 Vision Pro headset, which uses the same custom chip used in some Apple laptops, later this month or in early February.
Google and Samsung did not specify which products they plan to use the new Qualcomm chip in.
