Meta and Qualcomm entering into multi-year engineering collaboration to shape metaverse technology
During his keynote presentation at IFA 2022 in Germany, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon continued his characterization of Qualcomm’s technologies as “your ticket to the metaverse,” calling the transition from 2D digital experiences to...
Huawei recently held its Win-Win Innovation Week in late July 2022 in Shenzhen, China. After a flurry of presentations on a wide range of topics, it is possible to see how the telco landscape will continue to evolve over the next three to five...
Metaverse for metacasts, metaservices, and metaproducts
While the metaverse is still very much a nascent concept, it seems increasingly clear that telecom service providers and vendors ranging from device OEMs to cloud computing firms stand to generate significant revenues from delivering on what the concept...
Wi-Fi 7 will bring new and significant capabilities that will reshape how we use and think about Wi-Fi. As the industry continues to define Wi-Fi 7, one truth about all previous generations is clear: implementation will drive differentiation. With an eye toward realizing the...
5G, Wi-Fi, and connected intelligent edge are key enablers of the metaverse
As the possibilities of the metaverse for consumers and enterprises takes shape, the spotlight is on ensuring foundational technology pieces are in place. With core expertise ranging from connectivity and compute to graphics...
Having seen most of its development under the shadows of a global pandemic, Rel. 17 is putting a solid foundation for the next phase of 5G. The biggest focus of the standard has been expanding the benefits of 5G beyond traditional smartphone and broadband...
Ericsson has launched a new “software toolbox” to “guarantee” consistently low latency and high reliability in 5G networks for time-critical applications. Its new Time-Critical Communication product, available via a new Critical IoT product, is targeted at enterprises and consumers, variously for cloud gaming, augmented...
On this episode of Well, technically... the tech podcast where women do the explaining, former Qualcomm Director of Product Marketing, Mobile Gaming and XR Technologies Leilani DeLeon talks XR and mobile gaming trends, as well as how her new company My Legacy is using the latest technology to build and preserve family histories.
XR market will experience strong growth from 2021 onwards, says Strategy Analytics
Strategy Analytics predicted that, despite a challenging year, the XR market will experience strong growth from 2021 onwards. Specifically, the report anticipates XR shipments to grow six-fold from 2020 to 2025 with revenues...
Qualcomm has launched a certification programme for combining augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) devices and Snapdragon-based 5G smartphones. The programme will approve tethered AR and VR devices for use by enterprises, as well as consumers, within 12 months, it said.
At the same...
Note, this article is taken from an editorial report on industrial AR, called Industrial AR – and the rise of the workers. The report is available to download here.
What is the deal with all of these alternative realities? The industry has come up with...
Qualcomm has introduced the idea of extended reality (XR), combining and going beyond the disciplines of augmented (AR), virtual (VR), and even mixed (MR) reality technology. More than this, it is talking about 'boundless XR', which leverages industrial 5G and distributed AI, when powerful...
Self-driving cars, autonomous manufacturing and immersive mobile XR are all on the 5G horizon
5G networks are commercially available in dozens of countries around the globe and consumer adoption of compatible handsets is set to spike in 2020 as coverage scales and services like cloud...
