Qualcomm says Samsung, Google plan to use its new headset chip

Qualcomm on Thursday said Samsung Electronics and Alphabet’s Google plan to use a new computing chip it designed to power mixed and virtual reality headsets.

The Qualcomm chip, called the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, will be able to handle data feeds from a dozen cameras inside the headset.

It comes as competition to sell what are known as mixed-reality headsets – where a view of the outside world is passed through to the user via cameras – is expected to heat up this year with Apple’s release of its Vision Pro headset.