Ahead of next week’s Mobile World Congress 2018
technology event which will take place once again in Barcelona. Qualcomm has
unveiled a new virtual reality headset reference design which is based on the
Snapdragon Mobile VR platform and is equipped with a Snapdragon 845 premium
mobile chipset.
The new Snapdragon virtual reality headset will
provide users with a 30 percent faster processor that will use 30 percent less
power than the previously launched Snapdragon 835 version. As well as being
faster and less power hungry the Snapdragon 845 technology also brings with it
a number of new advances including Adreno Foveation, Qualcomm’s foveated
rendering using its Adreno GPU.
The new snapdragon Snapdragon Mobile VR headset is
equipped with four cameras with two situated inside the headset pointing at a
users eyes, to track their pupil location and orientation. Allowing the headset
to render higher quality graphics directly where the users eyes are looking.
The latest mobile VR platform by Qualcomm will also
support the company’s Roomscale tracking technology using inside-out 6-DoF
(degrees of freedom) tracking with SLAM (simultaneous localisation and mapping)
to enable users to engage in virtual reality environments and applications by
standing rather than being seated for the whole experience. The technology is
capable of detecting obstacles in front of you alerting you when they become
too close allowing you to avoid them while remaining immersed in VR.
