The Snapdragon

Qualcomm Qualcomm () is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware. It creates semiconductors, software, and services related to wireless technology. It owns patents critical to the 5G, 4 ...

VR820 is a

virtual reality Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs pose tracking and 3D near-eye displays to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), educ ...

reference platform that was released in Q4 2016, with the first commercial devices based on the platform available shortly thereafter. It is based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, released on November 10, 2015.

Specifications

Adreno 530 GPU. * Stereoscopic 3D, with

foveated rendering Foveated rendering is a rendering technique which uses an eye tracker integrated with a virtual reality headset to reduce the rendering workload by greatly reducing the image quality in the peripheral vision (outside of the zone gazed by the fovea ...

, with support for the latest graphics

API An application programming interface (API) is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a type of software Interface (computing), interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standa ...

s. * 1440×1440 resolution per eye, AMOLED panel. * 360°, 4K video playback processing with

HEVC High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2, is a video compression standard designed as part of the MPEG-H project as a successor to the widely used Advanced Video Coding (AVC, H.264, or MPEG-4 Part 10). In compari ...

compression. *

EcoPix pixel compression. *

Stereo Stereophonic sound, or more commonly stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that recreates a multi-directional, 3-dimensional audible perspective. This is usually achieved by using two independent audio channels through a configuration ...

, binaural

positional audio 3D audio effects are a group of sound effects that manipulate the sound produced by stereo speakers, surround-sound speakers, speaker-arrays, or headphones. This frequently involves the virtual placement of sound sources anywhere in three-dimensio ...

, and 3D surround sound with

Aqstic. * Four microphones with Fluence HD and

active noise cancellation Active noise control (ANC), also known as noise cancellation (NC), or active noise reduction (ANR), is a method for reducing unwanted sound by the addition of a second sound specifically designed to cancel the first. The concept was first develop ...

. * Dual

Qualcomm Spectra Qualcomm () is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. It creates semiconductors, software, and services related to wireless technology. It ow ...

camera ISPs and Qualcomm Hexagon DSP, for vision features such as look-through imaging and 3D reconstruction,

eye-tracking Eye tracking is the process of measuring either the point of gaze (physiology), gaze (where one is looking) or the motion of an eye relative to the head. An eye tracker is a device for measuring eye positions and Eye movement (sensory), eye mo ...

, and hand gestures. * Monocular visual motion tracking with 6DOF at 800 Hz for head motion tracking in movement and rotation. * Processing with average motion to photon latency under 18ms. * 64-bit

Kryo quad-core

CPU A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and ...

. * Hexagon 680 DSP for processing advanced vision and audio. *

"All-Ways Aware" sensor technology.

References

Sources

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"Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon Virtual Reality Reference Platform for Immersive User Experiences on Standalone Head Mounted Displays"
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