XR (VR/AR)

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, while our Snapdragon XR2 Platform is a dedicated mobile XR platform that allows developers to create high-quality, cost effective XR solutions for mainstream use. Below we outline the tools we have available to create and enhance your XR experiences.

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Developer Resources

Building Blocks and Skills to Break into AR Development

It might seem complex, but augmented reality boils down to a few fundamental building blocks. This blog post looks at those building blocks and the skills you need to break into AR development and...

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Level Up Your Game: Key Announcements and Highlights from GDC 2022

We recently participated in the 36th annual Game Developers Conference (GDC), where we showcased gaming and augmented reality demos. We also gave some exciting presentations, so if you missed the...

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Variable Rate Shading Has Arrived on Mobile with Impressive Results

Shaders are powerful tools in programmable graphics pipelines because they can process 3D geometry and pixels in various ways before the final scene is rasterized. This blog introduces variable rate...

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The Evolution of High Performance Foveated Rendering on Adreno

This blog introduces foveated rendering and the advances made to Qualcomm Adreno to support it.

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Software Development Tools

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.

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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