The company has targeted its Snapdragon 835 mobile chip at virtual reality headsets and currently has four customers with early 820-based designs in the market. An additional five 820 designs are coming in 2017. Now, to further stoke the market, the company is launching the Qualcomm Head Mounted Display (HDM) Accelerator Program. Clearly, from Qualcomm’s perspective, spreading its bets around and encouraging the VR ecosystem could help the fledgling market grow.
The goal of the accelerator program is to help manufacturers increase the speed with which they are able to create and ship new products, while also reducing their engineering costs. The program is essentially designed as a catalyst for hardware manufacturers who are creating a VR HMD of their own.
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