Analyst Anshel Sag details the XR and Metaverse-related announcements from CES 2022.
, providing custom chips for the company’s new “Light” augmented reality glasses. According to the press release, the glasses that utilize Qualcomm’s custom chip will be for both enterprise and consumer use cases. This is relevant because most of Microsoft’s AR ambitions, until now, focused on the enterprise AR space. While there were rumors of Niantic possibly prototyping Pokémon Go for the Hololens 2, this is one of Microsoft’s first real commitments in consumer AR.
There was another significant reveal in Amon’s emphasis that Qualcomm’s new custom power efficient Snapdragon chip for Microsoft would be used in next generation “very lightweight” AR glasses. Microsoft’s current AR headset is more of a helmet than a pair of glasses, so clearly it has some new hardware in development. Also notable, this solution seems likely to combine Microsoft’s Mesh with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces into a single, comprehensive solution.
Sony teased the PlayStation VR 2 controllers at its Technology Day this past December, showing off their design and sharing some technical details regarding haptics. In what I believe is an industry first, the system’s headset itself also includes haptic feedback capabilities. Notably, the PSVR 2 will also be the first to really bring eye-tracking and foveated rendering technology into the mainstream.
Overall, I think Sony made a lot of good decisions with the PSVR 2. One of the big challenges, in my opinion, will be Sony’s approach to content—more specifically, AAA content. Sony says the PSVR 2 will take the new approach of enabling VR as a feature in certain AAA titles. This strategy may lure more AAA developers to develop VR features, but it also means that AAA PSVR 2 only titles are unlikely to happen for quite some time, if ever.
The Leiniao AR glasses follow the release of TCL’s NXTWear G, a head-mounted display that acts like a portable home theater and wearable for private computing use cases. This is not to be confused with the new NXTWear Air glasses, another TCL wearable detailed at CES 2022. Weighing only 75 grams, the NXTWear Air glasses feature two 1080P Micro OLED displays and interchangeable lenses. To my understanding, the NXTWear Air uses birdbath optics.
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