Niantic and Qualcomm Will Work on AR Glasses

During the annual Snapdragon Technology Summit 2019, Niantic announced that they will team up with Qualcomm to create new AR glasses.

Niantic and Qualcomm started a multi-year partnership on the development of new AR glasses reference hardware, software, and cloud components.

Niantic is a developing company that works on AR elements for games. The company is mostly known for its games, Ingress and Pokémon Go.

Qualcomm works on wireless technologies and innovations in 5G, XR, VR, and AI.

To move forward the development of current AR innovations, the company will work on the optimization of the platform for:

Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Platform is the biggest XR platform that supports 5G. The goal of the platform is to move forward the XR technology.
Niantic Real World Platform has an AR-first SDK enabling high quality and cloud services that give a shared AR experience for millions of users.

Check the whole announcement for more details here.

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