Snapdragon 835 promises better battery, more security and added AR and VR support

When Qualcomm first teased the latest version of its near ubiquitous Snapdragon line back in mid-November, it was fairly light on the details. At the time, it offered some vague promises of performance enhancements, lowered power consumption and a Quick Charge speed bump baked into a 10-nanometer designed built with manufacturing partner, Samsung.

As promised, the San Diego-based component manufacturer has a lot more information to offer up on its new flagship chip this week at CES. From the looks of it, Qualcomm has managed to cram an awful lot onto the chip, which comes in at 35-percent smaller than the Snapdragon 820 line.

The company breaks the device’s feature set up into five pillars – battery life, immersion (VR/AR), capture (camera), connectivity (WiFi/LTE) and security – so let’s do the same here, for the sake of simplicity.

Seurat: Bringing high-fidelity rendering to mobile VR

VR since its inception has gained quite a lot of popularity amongst users. People find it quite comfortable to use VR gears on their mobile headsets; the major reason behind it is they are cheaper and also fully wireless enabling individuals to have easy access to it. Mobile VR headset is available at cheap price beginning from Rs. 150 to Rs. 10,000 however users should make a note that along with expensive and smartphones are also a must. Once they have both the things available, it is not at all difficult for users to make the most using VR headset. To enable users take the right decision of purchasing VR headset let’s inquire about some of the facts related to it below.

Cardboard The cheapest category available in VR is that of cardboard. They are available beginning from the range of Rs. 150 and the highest range goes up to 500 or 600. This range is available in basic category, hence user will have to be careful while using or folding it.

Clip on Lens There is variety of lens designs available in the market which can be clipped along with Google cardboard. The Google tech C1 glass is one of the finest pieces in the market which is available at USD 15 and easily folds up to become portable.You can efficiently clip on the device to your phone and use it as and when you want.

Samsung: The Gear VR with Controller will release along with the Galaxy S8 and S8+ on April 21st.

Me: So is the controller on its own coming out that day too?

Samsung: Nah, we're releasing it on the the 25th without saying so anywhere.

Me: But why?

Samsung: Because we want to milk the money out of people who want it as soon as they can and you'll just buy it later anyways.

Viro Media Is A Tool For Creating Simple Mobile VR Apps For Businesses

One of the biggest roadblocks to VR content creation right now is how complicated it can be, but there’s a small subsection of the industry developing platforms that make creating VR content a bit easier. Not every application demands the experience that more complex applications and games require to make and developers of these more accessible platforms understand that those not well versed in VR creation could benefit from a streamlined way to make their own content.

Viro Media is supplying a platform of their own and their hope is to be the simplest experience where companies can code once and have their content available on multiple mobile platforms.