1. How to take advantage
of XR over 5G in 2019:
Understanding XR Viewers
Hiren Bhinde
Director of XR Product Management
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
@qualcommMay 2019 Augmented World Expo
Prince Gupta
Senior Product Manager
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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XR is the next mobile computing platform
Everything we’ve learned for smartphones will be used for AR
Laptop Smartphone AR glasses

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The Final Frontier
New optics and projection
technologies within a durable,
semitransparent display
Directional speakers
Tracking and recording cameras
Ultra-bright LED lights
Inertial, haptic, environmental,
and health sensors
• Many passive and active cameras
with fisheye and telephoto lenses
Ambient light sensors
Multiple high sensitivity audio microphones
Eye tracking cameras
Multimode connectivity (4G, 5G, etc.)
Rear camera

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New optics and projection
technologies within a durable,
semitransparent display
Directional speakers
Tracking and recording cameras
Ultra-bright LED lights
Inertial, haptic, environmental,
and health sensors
Many passive and active cameras
with fisheye and telephoto lenses
Ambient light sensors
Multiple high sensitivity audio microphones
Eye tracking cameras
Multimode connectivity (4G, 5G, etc.)
Rear camera

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Next-gen 6-DoF video

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Multi-player gaming
with photorealistic graphics

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Our mobile office or living room,
virtually anywhere

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Real-time interactive collaboration

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Form factors
Multiple form factors have unique strengths but also limit experiences
Smartphones
1.Not ergonomic
2.Limits seamless usage
Standalone
1.Display, weight,
power work in progress
2.Content being developed
Phone on HMD
1.Weight of phone on Head
limits experience
2.No AR experience

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Technology needs for AR
Heterogeneous
computing
CPU
GPU
DSP
ISP
Video engine
Display engine
64-bit
OpenCL
Shared virtual memory
HVX
Vulkan
Gaming
Gaming engines
Physics engine
Dynamic lighting
Virtual reality
Motion to photon
Motion tracking
360 spherical
Positional audio
High resolution
AI and
Computer vision
VIO
SLAM
Scene detection
XR
Stabilizing the world
Realistic occlusion and blending
Contextual understanding
Machine learning
Object tracking
Depth perception
Area learning
Connectivity
2G 3G
802.11g
Bluetooth
4G
802.11ac/ad
5G
802.11ax

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Always-on
Complex concurrencies
Real-time
Compute intensive
Latency sensitive
Complex
XR workloads
Challenging
XR form factor
Long battery life
for all-day use
Storage/memory
bandwidth
Thermally efficient for
sleek and ultra-light
Smartphone Processing
Low latency
High capacity
Reliable link
Distributed Processing – Viewers and Smartphones
Additional Compute available
Augment on-device rendering
Connectivity
Provide Low latency and
optimized under strict power,
thermal, size constraints
Premium experiences today that
continuously improve
Viewers Processing Viewers

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5G enhanced
mobile broadband
is required for XR mass adoption
Extreme throughput— multi Gbps
Ultra-low latency — down to 1 ms
Uniform experience — even at cell edge
XR video will be the killer use case for 5G
~50 to 200 Mbps, lower latency
Next-generation (2019)
3D 360° 8K/30fps viewport-aware HDR10 video
~10 to 50 Mbps
Current-generation
360° 4K/30fps video
~200 to 5000 Mbps, very low latency
Next-decade
Interactive, real-time 3D “Free-Viewpoint”
6-DoF 8K/90-120fps HDR-next video
Sustained network performance

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Europe
North America
Japan
South Korea
Australia/SEA
China
Deployments happening
in regions across the globe2019 is the year of 5G
5G
5G is here.
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Benefits of XR Viewers
PowerForm Factor Performance

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Form Factor

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6 DOF Tracking Cameras
Photo / Video Camera

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Stereo Display
Ultra smooth motion at 90Hz

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USB-C

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Performance
Sensor sampling and fusion
Head pose generation
Tracking Accuracy
Visual Processing
View generation
Render / decode
Low Latency
Adjustment to latest pose (time warp)
Quality enhancement and display
Total time (motion to photon latency) for
steps must be less than 20 milliseconds
“Photon” (new pixels’ light emitted from the screen)“Motion”

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Power
Workloads
• Displays
• Algorithms
• Rendering
Constrained mobile
wearable environment
• Thermally efficient for sleek,
ultra-light designs
• Long battery life for
all-day use

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Simple Viewer Smart Viewer
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Sensors
Perception
Rendering
Display Processing
Improved Form Factor
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Sensors
Perception
Graphics Rendering
Display Processing
Improved Form Factor
Improved Performance
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Sensors
Perception
ATW
Video Decoding
Video Encode
Graphics Rendering
Display Processing
Improved Form Factor
Improved Performance
Improved Power Savings
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• Smart Viewer enables lower power by running
Viewer and Smartphone at lower clock
frequency
• Smart Viewer enables rich graphics rendering
powered by Smartphone, by offloading
Perception + ATW from Smartphone to Viewer
Power Benefits of Distributed Processing
Standalone Perception on
Viewer
Perception +
ATW On
Viewer
Power
Viewer
Smartphone

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Big screen experience anywhere with existing apps

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Today’s form factors are great but
have its own challenges
Viewers provide the best of
form factors, compute and
feature abilities
Call to arms for XR market
acceleration: development and
cooperation is key
XR is the next mobile
computing platform

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“You can’t depend on your eyes
when your imagination is out of focus”
- Mark Twain

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