Metaverse has become the buzzword in tech circles. Almost every major platform has some sort of virtual app-based future planned. The point is that these glasses need AR (Augmented Reality) glasses to be fully effective. Everything indicates that smartphone brands could develop and launch their own AR glasses. And that's where chipmaker Qualcomm comes in. It launched a platform to bridge the gap between AR glasses and your smartphone. Simply put, when you buy an AR glass, you can make it work with your smartphone through the Snapdragon Spaces software platform. To this end, Qualcomm Technologies unveiled its "Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform" which will help developers enhance existing apps and create new ones to get the most out of wearable AR devices. Qualcomm said Snapdragon Spaces will deliver robust, performance-optimized, and low-power consumption machine perception technology for the next generation of AR glasses. Snapdragon Spaces will take a direct-to-consumer approach and allow developers to create apps for AR glasses and make them accessible to end users via smartphones.
Apple was left out
Spaces is software that will make glasses work with more phone apps. The platform downloads to compatible phones and allows plug-in glasses to be connected. The glasses become an extension of a phone, using the device's processing power and telecommunications connection to deliver experiences. Snapdragon Spaces also allows developers to create 3D VR headset apps from scratch or simply add head-mounted VR functionality to existing Android smartphone apps to deliver a unified multi-screen experience between the 2D smartphone screen. and the real world in 3D. Smartphone brands like Lenovo/Motorola, Xiaomi, and Oppo are the first partners of the Snapdragon Spaces platform, while app developers like Epic Games and Niantic are also linked. "We look forward to enabling AR app developers to reach maximum audiences through the open platform of Snapdragon Spaces and our future Snapdragon Space-enabled devices," said XueZhong Zeng, senior vice president of Xiaomi. At the moment, the platform is only compatible with certain Android phones that are powered by Qualcomm chips, and iPhones are isolated from this ecosystem. Readers know that Apple uses the ARM M1 chip in its devices. Snapdragon Spaces has given early access to some developers and is expected to be generally available in spring 2022, the company said. The Snapdragon Spaces platform will give developers the tools to create face-to-face augmented reality experiences that can intelligently detect and interact with the user and adapt to their physical indoor spaces. “Some of the renowned environment understanding features include spatial mapping and meshing, occlusion, plane detection, object and image recognition and tracking, local anchors and persistence, and scene understanding. indicated. Developers will also receive a resource library that includes documentation, code samples, tutorials, knowledge bases, and tools to speed up their development.Qualcomm strengthens the Spaces ecosystem
