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The four-day Mobile World Congress 2022 (MWC 2022) came to an end on March 3 in Barcelona, Spain. With the slogan of "Connectivity Unleashes Infinite Possibilities", this year's conference set up 6 major themes - 5G connectivity, artificial intelligence promotion, cloud networking, financial technology, Internet of Everything, and emerging technologies.
Image source: MWC 2022 official website
HTC Meta-Universe brand Viverse is officially open
Following the first publicity of the concept video on Feb. 24, HTC's meta-universe brand, Viverse, also showcased more hands-on content at MWC 2022. Including: Vive Connect as a cross-platform center for entering other worlds, applications or games in Viverse; Vive Avatar is a user avatar based on the VRM standard; Vive Guardian is a guardian control function to ensure that minors are also in a safe environment in Viverse; and the crypto wallet Vive Wallet is associated with functions such as NFT.
As an open platform, Viverse supports access using hardware including VR headsets, mobile phones, tablets, PCs, and more. HTC Asia Pacific General Manager Huang Zhaoying also confirmed at the media conference that HTC plans to launch a new smartphone in April and is highly integrated with Viverse. HTC will also work closely with a number of telecom operators around the world this year on Viverse.
Source: HTC official website
HTC has worked with a number of companies to enhance the VR experience
HTC also offered several VR experiences at the show, including: Yullbe Go/Europa Park's latest Location-based Entertainment app, which allows five players wearing Vive Focus 3 to share a map intelligence with an effective area of 1,000 square meters.
A VR training program for building safety, created by OutHere XR in collaboration with Skanska, the world's fifth-largest construction company, allows construction companies to train workers through Vive Focus 3 to reduce preventable construction accidents.
Holoride, in conjunction with Vive Flow, brings the VR entertainment experience to the car. During the driving process, vr games or videos will match the speed of the vehicle, road conditions, etc. in real time, thereby reducing the occurrence of motion sickness.
Image source: Vive Flow official website
Qualcomm reached a strategic cooperation with ByteDance
Qualcomm announced a partnership with ByteDance to establish a partnership in the XR space. Commenting on the partnership, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said, "We are working together to develop hardware/software to enable the global XR ecosystem. ByteDance CEO Rubo Liang said: "We are excited to collaborate on hardware, software and technology roadmaps to realize Pico's ecosystem. We look forward to future Pico devices being powered by the Snapdragon Spaces XR developer platform." ”
Qualcomm launches the Snapdragon Connect brand logo
Qualcomm also announced the Snapdragon Connect brand logo at MWC 2022. Terminals bearing this logo will be powered by best-in-class 5G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology. Whether it's a smartphone, laptop, VR/AR headset, or connected car, devices with Snapdragon Connect support extremely responsive connections in addition to exceptional download and upload speeds. Improve the experience for time-sensitive applications such as connected gaming, XR, and edge computing with technologies designed to minimize latency.
Snapdragon Connect devices also provide a powerful and seamless wireless connection. This means barrier-free Internet access in challenging environments, such as congested environments such as transportation hubs or stadiums, or when users are far from cellular base stations or Wi-Fi access points. This enables users to do seamless video conferencing, collaborative work, or distance education virtually anywhere – a fundamental feature of any device, now and in the future.
Source: Qualcomm official website
Other exhibitors and products
Huawei and UAE operator Du jointly signed a memorandum of cooperation on MEC (Multi-Access Edge Computing) joint innovation. The two sides will strive to provide higher quality network services, optimize multimedia immersive services such as VR and AR, and promote the development of customers in the technology industry and more industries. OPPO's AR smart glasses - OPPO AR Glass 2021 and OPPO Air Glass participated in the exhibition. Five AR smart glasses from Vuzix in the United States participated in the exhibition, including M400, M400C, M4000, Blade, and Shield. The education exhibition area of orange company in France exhibited a demo of "Notre Dame de Paris VR Time Travel", allowing users to experience an immersive tour of Notre Dame Cathedral. South Korea's SK Telecom's VR experience "4D Meta-Universe" attracted a lot of attention with its huge boom play platform, attracting experiencers to queue up at the exhibition.
图源：The Korea Herald
This year's MWC was attended by 61,000 people from more than 200 countries, with more than 1,900 exhibitors. Although it has not yet fully recovered to the pre-epidemic scale, it has recovered overall compared with last year. From June 29 to July 1, MWC 2022 will be held in Shanghai, closer to us, and we expect more highlight performance from various manufacturers.