Qualcomm’s CEO‚ Cristiano Amon‚ presented his vision for a new era of computing late last year at Snapdragon Summit. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge A year after Qualcomm‚ Samsung‚ and Google announced‚ uh‚ something VR-related‚ one potential component of the project is coming into focus: the Snapdragon XR2 Plus Gen 2. The new chipset is designed as a step up from the XR2 Gen 2 in the Meta Quest 3‚ capable of rendering high-resolution visuals like the ones promised by Apple’s Vision Pro. The XR2 Plus Gen 2 supports 4.3K resolution at 90fps per eye‚ which is a cut above the XR2 Gen 2’s 3K-per-eye rendering. It also supports 12 concurrent cameras to handle passthrough video as well as body and face tracking. Qualcomm says that the new chipset offers a 15 percent increase in GPU frequency compared to the standard XR2 Gen 2 and 20 percent greater CPU frequency — all in service of... Continue reading…