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Qualcomm’s big augmented reality project with Samsung and Google is... glasses

AR glasses to go with your next phone?

By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. While the companies never specified what type of device they were working on, most rumors suggested it would be a Samsung mixed reality headset pitched as an affordable competitor to Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro. Amon tells CNBC he’s “incredibly pleased” with the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses released last year, which are powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 chip, and said that generative AI was the “ingredient that was missing” for expansion in the mixed reality market.

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