Something to look forward to: Have you e'er wished to accept more than display area but lacked the physical space to make it a reality? Qualcomm has found a solution to that trouble, introducing a new AR engineering that expands the PC desktop surface area with virtual monitors to increment your working space.

The technology was shown during Qualcomm'due south Snapdragon Summit 2022, where attendees were able to examination the virtual monitor application themselves. The setup consisted of a pair of AR glasses continued to a laptop equipped with Qualcomm's newly announced Qualcomm 8cx Gen three SoC, which was running an application to display the virtual monitors on the AR glasses.

Note that Windows identified each virtual monitor as a new brandish. Users could move the virtual monitor anywhere they pleased, which will definitely come in handy. The virtual monitors introduced some latency, but the overall experience was however acceptable - at least if y'all employ them to read and navigate the web. If you're thinking near watching movies or gaming, you lot might take to wait for better AR tech.

One other interesting feature delivered by Qualcomm'due south AR technology is privacy. Only the wearer can see the virtual monitors, so if you lot're working in a public space, the just thing others volition see is what's displayed on your laptop screen.

Likewise the typical wobbling from the glasses themselves (a outcome of the 1-size-fits-all design), they also offer a adequately limited field of vision. Considering the spectacles were probably just a prototype, these bug are comprehensible.

While Qualcomm is developing AR tech that looks more oriented to office employ, companies similar Microsoft are catering to the military and the automotive manufacture.