Rumor: Google is working on augmented reality headset with Qualcomm soc

Google is reportedly working on a standalone augmented reality headset that will feature a Qualcomm QSC603 soc. The Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Quanta would produce the headset.

Google would work with Quanta on the headset under the project name A65. The device would have camera sensors and a microphone, so that operation via speech is expected, Winfuture suggests. The site does not report many details about the project, but the headset is said to be equipped with a Qualcomm QSC603 soc. This is a quad-core for internet-of-things devices, with two ARM Cortex-A75 cores at 1.6GHz and two at 1.7GHz.

Google and Quanta are also said to have considered using the more powerful QS605 octacore. Winfuture also speaks of a project at Quanta called A66, to which the company Meta would be associated. This American company already has an augmented reality headset on the market, the Meta 2. This is a model that resembles Microsoft’s Hololens and that still has to be connected to a PC via a wire.

Winfuture appears to be relying on pages on the Taiwanese site iStay, which are currently offline. The Google results indicate that information about a project ‘Quanta/Google A65 (QCS603/QXR1)’ with standalone ar and about ‘Quanta/Meta A66’ related to an ar device without a battery was online. iStay appears to be the page for Quanta’s internet-of-things and consumer electronics teams. Quanta is a Taiwanese company that makes laptops for almost all major manufacturers such as HP, Dell and Apple.

In recent years, Google has focused strongly on virtual and augmented reality, especially in its services. The company has released ARCore for Android developers, among others. Google did have its own ar hardware in the form of the Google Glass. That project was put on hold for a while, but got a business restart last year. Those glasses would have an Atom soc from Intel.

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