According to news on May 22, VR industry analysts Roland Quandt and Brad Lynch recently revealed that Qualcomm is providing test samples of Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 3 (SXR2330) and XR2+ Gen 3 chips (SXR2350) to VR headset manufacturers. The relevant chip code names for "Project Matrix",Supports 16GB RAM, UFS 4.0 and single-eye 4K panels。
Qualcomm launched the XR2+ Gen 2 chip reference design at CES 2024, but no VR headset manufacturer has yet actually shipped equipment equipped with related chips. Qualcomm is currently testing Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 3 and XR2+ Gen 3 chip data It is said to be a "variant" of the XR2+ Gen 2 chip.
Source Lynch revealed that considering the development cycle, the related chips are "almost the same" as XR2+ Gen 2 in terms of functionality and bandwidth.But using the Oryon CPU (instead of Arm Cortex) in the Snapdragon X Elite, the GPU is also said to be "more energy efficient"。
For reference, VR giant Meta currently uses the XR2+ Gen 1 chip in the Quest Pro head display and the XR2 Gen 2 chip in the Quest 3. It is expected that the company will use Snapdragon XR2 in the Quest Pro 2 or Quest 4 head display. Gen 3 series chips, but we may have to wait for quite a while.
In addition, it has been previously reported that Samsung is currently developing a head display that will "benchmark" Apple's Vision Pro. This head display may also use the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 3 series chip.
Source: IT Home
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