Atong released new products in the middle of the night, this time the XR platform, which is XR2 Gen2 for VR devices and AR1 Gen1 for AR smart glasses, pronounced respectively:
XR Two Gen Two
AR One Gen One
This pair is too neat~[Peach in the peach]
Why launch in the middle of the night? It is because Meta's new Quest 3 was released at this point in time, which is the world premiere of the XR2 Gen2.
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Let's start with the XR2 Gen2, which is geared towards the next generation of XR and MR devices
GPU performance is 2.5 times higher than the previous generation of products, energy efficiency is increased by up to 50%, Emmm, look at this literal meaning, the display is the use of 8Gen2 new GPU architecture, and only this generation of architecture can have such sky-defying performance;
Support 3K*3K display resolution, game super-resolution, visual focus rendering and space distortion;
In terms of AI capabilities, Hexegan NPU (attention, attention, NPU) has up to 8 times more performance per W than the previous generation, plus an independent visual analysis engine.
These two modules realize the multi-slave concurrent sensing technology of this platform, which can simultaneously realize user-side tracking such as head, eye, face, handle, gesture, and environmental perception capabilities such as plane detection, depth, 3D reconstruction, semantic understanding, object recognition and tracking.
(Digression: This ability is actually similar to the vehicle-mounted Snapdragon Ride platform, and it is really trivial to use it on MR)
In particular, the existence of the feature discovery and tracking module in the visual analysis engine makes the key point detection ability of XR2 Gen2 double that of the previous generation, but the power consumption and delay can be greatly reduced, which is the power processor.
In terms of connection capability, it has been upgraded to WiFi 7 (look, this also proves that the foundation should be 8Gen2), the connection power consumption is reduced by 25%, and the delay is reduced by 80%.
In terms of VTS capabilities, which are particularly valued by VR/MR devices, the new generation platform optimizes the processing thread to only three steps, which is equivalent to "putting the elephant in the refrigerator", and the delay is as low as 12ms, which is much lower than the 50ms of the traditional solution.
In addition, the upgraded Spectra ISP also makes VTS effects such as geometry correction, noise reduction, and dynamic brightness better.
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Then there's the AR1 Gen1 for AR smart glasses.
The first is to upgrade the dual Spectra ISP to 14bit, support 12 million pixel still image and 6 million pixel video recording, support HDR, portrait mode, etc., which means that the effect of the glasses camera will be better.
The enhancement of AI capabilities makes smart glasses using the AR1 Gen1 platform perform better in voice, real-time translation, call, motion tracking, etc., and can also support different solutions such as monocular and binocular, and the display resolution can reach 1280*1280.
In the more sensitive battery life of such products, the new platform has increased by 25%, and also supports the integration of software and hardware of the FastConnect platform, which can reach 5.8Gbps in peak speed, Emmm, which feels like the Snapdragon 7 series platform.
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In addition, Hugo Swart, general manager of Qualcomm's XR business, specifically said that AR1 Gen1 is a platform that can run independently and can completely eliminate the signal source of a mobile phone.
It seems that I plan to make efforts in the function of smart glasses.
