The engineering and product teams of both companies will increase their technical cooperation in order to deliver core technologies and next-generation platforms that will expedite a fully realised metaverse
The headquarters of Qualcomm in San Diego, California. (Credit: Coolcaesar/Wikipedia.org)
Qualcomm Technologies and Meta signed a multi-year agreement to develop metaverse experiences that will utilise Snapdragon extended reality (XR) platforms and technologies for the Meta Quest platform.
The agreement is expected to strengthen the two firm’s commitment to deliver multiple generations of premium devices and experiences driven by custom virtual reality (VR) platforms in the future. It was announced at IFA 2022 in Berlin.
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said: “We’re working with Qualcomm Technologies on customised virtual reality chipsets — powered by Snapdragon XR platforms and technology — for our future roadmap of Quest products.”
“As we continue to build more advanced capabilities and experiences for virtual and augmented reality, it has become more important to build specialised technologies to power our future VR headsets and other devices.
“Unlike mobile phones, building virtual reality brings novel, multi-dimensional challenges in spatial computing, cost, and form factor. These chipsets will help us keep pushing virtual reality to its limits and deliver awesome experiences.”
The engineering and product teams of both companies will broaden their technical cooperation in order to deliver core technologies and next-generation platforms that will expedite a fully realised metaverse, said Qualcomm.
Qualcomm and Meta are said to have collaborated on cutting-edge VR innovations for more than seven years. The most recent work of the partnership is the Meta Quest 2, which is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 platform.
Qualcomm president and CEO Cristiano Amon said: “By partnering with Meta, we are bringing together two of the world’s metaverse leaders to revolutionise the future of computing for billions of people in the coming years.
“Building off our joint leadership in XR, this agreement will allow our companies to deliver best-in-class devices and experiences to transform how we work, play, learn, create and connect in a fully realised metaverse.”
In July 2022, Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 and Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 platforms for the next generation wearables.