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Chip manufacturing giant ‘Qualcomm’ has established a strong foothold in the virtual reality (VR) market. A good number of standalone VR headset manufacturers are using Qualcomm chips for their products to obtain better renderings of immersive VR content.
Built on the Snapdragon 845 chip, the Qualcomm has recently unveiled a new ‘VRDK’ standalone reference design headset that boasts very impressive specs and serves as a blueprint for other Qualcomm customers and VR manufacturers to build their own headsets.
Qualcomm’s 835 series chipset is currently powering some of the most popular standalone VR headsets like the Vive Focus, Mirage Solo, and Pico Neo. The Snapdragon 845 is expected to host the future batch of standalone VR headsets which come with some improved features and performance capabilities.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Features
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The new Snapdragon 845 Qualcomm chipset provides a 30% boost in the power efficiency and graphics performance over the existing 835 series, and also twice the display throughput in comparison to its predecessor. Moreover, the Snapdragon 845 will be using Qualcomm’s latest Adreno 630 visual processing subsystem which combines the best of video, integrated graphics, and display processing techniques.
Another important innovation which Qualcomm brings with the Snapdragon 845 is Adreno Foveation that combines eye-tracking with graphics rendering. This innovative feature helps to render high-resolution content at the center of your vision while reducing the details outside that region. This helps to dedicate much of the headsets rendering resources exactly to the place where they are needed the most. This gives VR porn users the surety that watching high-definition immersive-rich VR Porn content will be easier than ever.
In addition to innovative new techniques, Qualcomm claims that the 845 VRDK is capable of delivering impressive resolutions of up to 2,000 × 2,000 pixels per eye at 120Hz. Currently, Samsung Odyssey VR Headset delivers the highest resolution of 1,600 x 1,440 per eye.
6DoF Tracking
Additionally, Qualcomm’s reference design also shows two onboard cameras for 6DoF inside-out positional tracking which means that no external sensors are required to determine your position in the surrounding space. The 845 also brings the addition of SLAM—Simultaneous Location And Mapping—which Qualcomm says “maps and detects obstacles in the user’s physical [world],” and allows for the “integration of real-world objects into the virtual world.”
Hugo Swart, Head of Virtual and Augmented Reality Business Group, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in a statement said: “We continue to deliver new advancements in technologies for our customers to utilize as they aim to capitalize on the growing standalone and smartphone VR industry. With the Snapdragon 845 Mobile VR Platform, we’re supporting the next wave of smartphone and standalone VR headsets for our customers and developers to create the immersive applications and experiences of the future.
Excited to actually see foveated rendering being applied to consumer headset… Hope one product with this technique arrives by the year-end
whoahh another 1 of a kind, i think i want a new one
This looks like a great piece of kit, damn it.. there are going to be too many awesome VR headsets out and my credit card is going to hate me!
but you’re gonna love it