Qualcomm officially unveils the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 1 chipset that’s powering the Meta Quest Pro

Meta’s Quest Pro VR/MR headset just became official, and it’s powered by the brand-new Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 1 chipset. Thankfully, Qualcomm itself has now published some more details about it.

The Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 1, which we’ll call XR2+ from now on for the sake of our sanity, comes with a new image processing pipeline that achieves less than 10ms latency, unlocking full-color video passthrough for mixed reality (MR).

It also supports 8K 60fps 360-degree video, ‘concurrent perception’ technologies, including head, hand, and controller tracking, 3D reconstruction,…