Qualcomm launches a new chip specifically for standalone AR and VR devices

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Qualcomm on Tuesday announced the launch of a new chip explicitly designed for standalone augmented reality and virtual reality devices: the Snapdragon XR1. The chipmaking giant debuted the tech ahead of this week’s Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, California.

The company is staying tight-lipped on technical details about the new SoC for the time being. Qualcomm says the SoC will use a Kryo CPU and Adreno GPU, as Qualcomm chips typically do, but exactly how those and the rest of the XR1’s building blocks will be configured isn’t yet clear.

That said, Qualcomm is slotting the XR1 below its existing Snapdragon 845—the chip powering most of the year’s highest-end smartphones—in terms of memory bandwidth and GPU power. It is primarily aiming XR1 devices at “lean back” experiences like 360-degree video viewing, at least to start.

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Motorola One Power Leaks With Notchy Design Powered By Android One

Motorola One Power Leaks With Notchy Design Powered By Android One
The image you see here is alleged to be a new Motorola smartphone that will run the streamlined Android One operating system. The device is called the Motorola One Power and is expected to land with the stylized moniker “motoralone Power”.

One glance at the smartphone and you can see that Motorola is following Apple’s iPhone X and other

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$100M Fortnite E-sports Event, PS4 Near The End | Patch Notes

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Google's AR drawing app lets Android and iOS users collab on doodles

You no longer need an Android phone to try Google’s take on augmented reality drawing. The tech giant has released an iOS version of Just a Line that brings the same three-dimensional doodling to the iPhone crowd. It’s largely the same app you saw in…

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Airport Time Is a Welcome State of Limbo

For many, the airport is a place filled with frustration and anxiety. But for others, the airport is a peaceful place where you don’t exist—no one does—and I love it. You’re allowed to do absolutely nothing, and sometimes, that’s exactly what the soul of a weary traveler needs.

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Jakejames Lugo of The Koalition writes: The SEGA Genesis Classics Collection is a terrible husk of what could have been a great compilation of classic Mega Drive games. While there are some staples of the consoles library from the 90s included here, the ones that are absent stand out in a very big way and highlight some of the duds that take their place. But other poor design decisions, bland visual filters, and a severe lack of extras that were once included in other Genesis collections…

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