XR (VR/AR)

Mobile Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are being used in more industries than ever including games, education, health care, and manufacturing. Now VR and AR are converging in various combinations to bring new immersive extended reality (XR) experiences to users.

Our Snapdragon® Mobile Platforms help developers create premium XR experiences such as VR and AR across a range of mobile devices. For more detailed information on how our portfolio of extended reality technologies help to bridge the gap between physical and virtual worlds, visit our Snapdragon XR technologies page.

To dive deeper into the world of augmented reality, our Snapdragon Spaces™ Developer Portal has a lot of great resources.

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Snapdragon and Snapdragon Spaces are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.

Constructs of Augmented Reality
Understanding how AR is constructed can help you build the types of experiences that your users will love. To help outline the elements, this eBook dives in on spatial architecture, features, and...
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Improving Foveated Rendering with the Fragment Density Map Offset Extension for Vulkan
Developers want to provide fast, smooth, and high-performance graphics rendering, which can be challenging in foveated rendering for XR. Learn how our fragment density map (FDM) offset extension for...
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The Architecture of Snapdragon Spaces
This year’s Augmented World Expo (AWE) saw speakers covering everything AR – from hardware and tools to ethics and implications for humanity. This blog post reviews our presentation, “The...
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Your Ticket to the Metaverse
This year’s Augmented World Expo (AWE) saw speakers covering everything AR – from hardware and tools to ethics and implications for humanity. This blog post reviews our presentation titled, “Your...
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Snapdragon Spaces™ XR Developer Platform
Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform allows you to develop immersive augmented reality experiences for AR glasses that adapt to any environment and enable you to build the future of mixed...
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3D Audio Plugin for Unity
A binaural spatial audio plugin for Unity designed to provide superior sound quality, low motion-to-sound latencies and better performance on Snapdragon powered devices.
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Adreno GPU SDK
The Adreno SDK is designed to allow you to take advantage of the graphics and computation power provided by the Adreno GPU, which is integrated in Snapdragon processors.
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Snapdragon XR2 HMD Reference Design
The Snapdragon XR2 reference design is engineered for software development and testing for deep interaction with AR and VR content.
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