Qualcomm announces next-generation chip for smart glasses, AR devices

Alongside the new flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform, Qualcomm also introduced its new platform — Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1 — for Augmented Reality devices like smart glasses. The company says that the new AR2 Gen 1 platform has been built from the ground up to revolutionise the head-worn glass form factor and improvise the entire spatial computing experience for the real-world/metaverse mix.

With Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1 SoC, the company aims that OEMs will be able to create the thinnest possible, high-performance AR glasses. The new chip uses the multi-chip distributed processing architecture combined with a customised IP block. The main processor, according to the company, has now a 40% smaller PCB area on the glass while the AI performance increases by up to 2.5x.