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Qualcomm joins forces with TikTok owner ByteDance to pursue advances in metaverse-ready extended reality technologies
- The two companies will collaborate on hardware, software and technology road maps to enable a global ecosystem for extended reality technologies
- XR is an umbrella term for immersive technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality, which are fundamental to the development of the metaverse
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Qualcomm, the US semiconductor and wireless technology giant, has teamed up with Chinese unicorn ByteDance, owner of global hit short video app TikTok and virtual reality (VR) headset maker Pico Interactive, to pursue advances in metaverse-ready extended reality (XR) technologies.
“We’re collaborating on hardware and software to enable a global XR ecosystem,” said Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm’s president and chief executive, on Monday at a press conference held on the sidelines of this year’s MWC Barcelona trade show in Spain.
XR is an umbrella term for immersive technologies such as VR and augmented reality (AR). Both VR and AR are regarded as fundamental to the development of the metaverse – the concept of a shared virtual environment that users access online, which is also considered as the next generation of the internet.
ByteDance chief executive Liang Rubo, who replaced founder Zhang Yiming as head of the Beijing-based tech unicorn at the end of last year, appeared on video during Qualcomm’s announcement to express the Chinese firm’s “commitment to building solutions that empower developers and creators with Qualcomm’s decade-long extended reality leadership”.
Apart from hardware and software collaboration, Liang said ByteDance and Qualcomm will work on “technology road maps to enable the ecosystem for Pico”.
“We look forward to our future Pico devices that are powered by Snapdragon Spaces XR developer platforms”, Liang said, referring to Qualcomm’s developer programme for XR-ready apps.
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