Chipmakers are to smartphones what OEMs are to cars. Their products foreshadow what tomorrow’s terminals and cars will look like. Thus, during the three days of the Qualcomm Summit, one of the leaders of the semiconductor market, the veil was lifted on the near future of mobile telephony. It’s a strong trend, with Qualcomm components powering more than 200 high-end Android smartphones.
The new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 platform brings new features that will be available in many smartphones, as well as computers, connected watches, wireless headphones and connected objects. New features include improved facial recognition to unlock your smartphone. To turn it on, you don’t need to lift your hand, it’s enough for your face to appear in front of the camera. And when the person leaves, the mobile turns off for greater security, but also to save battery and increase autonomy.
Smarter facial recognition
Facial recognition is also becoming a way to preserve personal privacy. So, it is not uncommon to watch a video on a smartphone with friends, colleagues… And those messages are displayed. From now on, the phone will detect the presence of several people and automatically switch to discreet mode. content or start notifications will no longer be displayed.
Qualcomm is also convinced that the future is video conferencing with a smartphone or computer, which will complement traditional telephone communication. Many improvements have been made to image and sound processing. New processors remove parasitic noise in real time to keep only the sound; the display is stunning. Likewise, backgrounds are handled better, with improved blur when needed.
Everyday gestures have become essential. Opening your phone’s camera to flash a QR code and thus get a restaurant’s menu has become a habit. Soon, smartphones will be able to detect a QR code without even turning it on. All you have to do is point the phone to the website’s referral code without any manipulation.
One step closer to augmented reality
Synchronous translation will also be improved by increasing the capabilities of electronic components. More than 1,000 languages can be processed, and smartphones will be able to translate one language into two other languages at the same time. So the phone’s on-screen translation can be displayed in, for example, Spanish and Chinese, as Qualcomm demonstrated at the Snapdragon Summit this week.
Qualcomm is also investing heavily in the development of virtual reality and augmented reality, convinced of the future of the metaverse. The team has developed a new platform that makes it easier and above all more discreet to integrate electronic components into glasses. Some of the chips are located in the temples, others on the top of the frame… And all are connected via WiFi 7 via smartphone or computer. Eventually, the new glasses will see the light of day.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon believes in the “merger” of the real world and the digital, the birth of a new augmented reality. It will be possible to process information without using a smartphone, to manipulate virtual objects in space… Fans of the genre will be able to step into Iron Man’s shoes and perform the same gestures as him.
Source: Le Figaro
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