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Qualcomm Introduces Snapdragon 835 Virtual Reality Development Kit

-- Unleashing the Full Potential of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform for Designed Developers to Create Immersive VR Experiences--

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23, 2017 — (PRNewswire) —  Today, Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has introduced a new virtual reality development kit (VRDK) for the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 835 mobile platform. The new Snapdragon VRDK gives developers early access to a VR head mounted display (HMD) built with the Snapdragon 835 mobile platform that is supported by an upgraded VR software development kit (SDK) that works with the HMD.

"With this new VRDK, we're providing virtual reality application developers with advanced tools and technologies to accelerate a new generation of VR games, 360-degree VR videos and a variety of interactive education, enterprise, healthcare and entertainment applications," said Cristiano Amon, executive vice president, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., and president, QCT. "We see great potential for the exciting new experiences made possible by truly mobile, untethered virtual reality that's always connected to the internet, and we're excited to help mobile VR developers more efficiently deliver compelling and high-quality experiences on upcoming Snapdragon 835 VR-capable products." 

The next generation of mobile virtual reality applications will be increasingly complex, with extreme power consumption constraints and challenging performance requirements that must be met in order for the VR applications to become truly immersive. Advanced heterogeneous mobile platforms like the Snapdragon 835 are capable of supporting immersive VR experiences in standalone head mounted displays (HMDs) that require neither fans nor cables.

The HMD included in the Snapdragon 835 VRDK consists of:

Technologies that are crucial for an optimal VR user experience will also be supported in the software development kit portion of the VRDK. These include:

The VRDK is expected to be available in the second quarter of 2017 through the  Qualcomm Developer Network and it is engineered to help developers attain improved VR performance and power efficiency for upcoming VR OEM devices built with the Snapdragon 835 that are expected to ship in the second half of 2017.

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