Qualcomm has a new VR development kit for its Snapdragon 835 platform.
The VR dev kit will help usher in a "new generation of VR games, 360-degree VR videos and a variety of interactive education, enterprise, healthcare and entertainment applications," the head of Qualcomm's chipmaking division, Cristiano Amon, said in a statement.
The VR dev kit is expected to be available in the second quarter of 2017.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 platform will work with Leap Motion hand tracking, meaning people can interact with the virtual world with their bare hands, making the experience more true to life.
"Technology works best when technology disappears," Leap Motion CTO David Holz said in a statement. "Untethered, mobile VR headsets with intuitive, hand-based interaction and position tracking bring a level of quality, immersion, and accessibility to VR unlike anything that's been seen before."
"We see great potential for the exciting new experiences made possible by truly mobile, untethered virtual reality that's always connected to the internet," Amon said.
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PCMag's Lead Mobile Analyst Sascha Segan got some eyes on time with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 VR headset at CES in January. Like the Snapdragon 820 VR headset we saw last September, the 835 headset is a reference device, meaning Qualcomm won't bring it to market. Instead, Qualcomm is hoping other companies pick up the idea and bring it to life.
Speaking of hardware, Qualcomm today launched a Head Mounted Display Accelerator Program, which will provide manufacturers with access to reference design products and components to build their own headsets
"Qualcomm Technologies has laid the groundwork for consistent, successful and flexible product development so manufacturers can have a commercial product available within just a few months," Amon said.