Qualcomm announces Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 SoC for XR headset Samsung and Google

Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 SoC for devices that enable mixed reality. The company says that an upcoming Samsung and Google headset, among others, will be powered by the SoC. No release dates have been announced yet.

The Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 is intended for so-called Furthermore, the SoC supports a resolution of up to 4.3k per eye at 90fps and ‘more than 12 external cameras’. There is once again support for the Wi-Fi 6, 6E and 7 standards.

Samsung, Qualcomm and Google announced a collaboration in early 2023 to work on a mixed reality device. In the summer of that year, Samsung reportedly decided to delay the headset to better compete with the Apple Vision Pro. It is not yet clear what kind of headset the companies are working on; In practice, mixed reality often means a mixture of augmented and virtual reality, where the real world can be seen through a VR headset. This feature is also available in the recent Meta Quest headsets, which are powered by Qualcomm’s previous XR2 sockets.