According to foreign media reports, Qualcomm announced that it will work with three technology partners to create an independent VR helmet. At the VR World Conference in Shanghai, Hugo Swart, the company's VR product manager, said that it will work with three partners to create a Head-Mounted Display Accelerator Program (HAP) that includes sensor maker Bosch. Sensortec, image sensor manufacturer OmniVision and controller manufacturer Ximmerse. Swat said that these new partners will help build key technologies for their VR helmets. As early as the Game Developers Conference held in March this year, Qualcomm claimed that HAP is an important part of its mobile VR helmet program. Its VR helmet will connect with a smartphone instead of a PC. Then, at the Google (microblogging) I/O conference held in June this year, Google announced that it will use Qualcomm's reference design to build Daydream's independent VR helmet. Lenovo and HTC also announced that they will build Daydream's independent helmets. Qualcomm said it will work with Bosch Sensortec to integrate the company’s BMX055 absolute direction sensor. This sensor includes an accelerometer, a gyroscope, and a magnetometer. It supports low latency sensing and is easily integrated into helmets. Qualcomm also said it will cooperate with OmniVision to integrate the company’s 100,000-pixel high-speed global shutter image sensor OV9282. Qualcomm is also preparing to work with Ximmerse to use Ximmerse's VR controller optimized for the Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile platform. The Ximmerse Flip is a three-degrees-of-freedom VR handle that provides any interaction, such as aiming, selecting, grabbing, and shooting. Ximmerse also created the Six Degrees of Freedom XIMMERSE Neon. "Mobile VR is the future of virtual reality." Swat said, "Users don't want connections, don't want complicated setups, don't want expensive devices. They just want an advanced user experience that can track location and browse rich Pictures and diverse content. Independent VR helmets bring user experience to a new level." In China, many independent VR helmets have adopted the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 VR HMD reference design (the predecessor of HAP), including Pico Neo and Goblin helmets, iQiyi Adventure helmets, Storm mirror Matrix and Micro Whale VR. "VR is not the end of the story," said Swat. "The future we envisage is a fusion of VR and AR (augmented reality) to form stylish extended reality (XR) glasses. XR glasses may take many years to become reality, but we We are investing in basic XR technology and working with other partners throughout the ecosystem to accelerate this dream. In fact, we expect to sell more than 40 million units (AR/VR/XR) per year over the next five years." (Compile / Learn)