Vodafone’s HyperRealityHub to introduce lightweight XR glasses at MWC24

Vodafone today unveiled the HyperRealityHub – a powerful new solution that shifts the paradigm from many of today’s bulkier extended reality (XR) headsets to lightweight, affordable glasses that support shared immersive experiences for businesses and consumers.

The HyperRealityHub will enable a split compute solution with support for external cameras to monitor the movement and location of multiple users. This reduces the computing requirements on XR devices, lowering energy consumption and weight to allow more users to experience lightweight AR devices.

The hub, which is powered by Snapdragon® technology, uses advanced distributed architecture and allows for the computing requirements to be shared between the hub, the glasses and across the cloud. The solution has high edge AI capabilities and has Vodafone apps built on the Snapdragon Spaces™ XR Developer Platform. They are all connected by Vodafone’s fast, secure, and highly responsive networks and Intellectual Property (IP) architecture.

In addition to HyperRealityHub, Vodafone has a vision for the HyperRealityHub+ variant which can connect multiple users, enabling them to interact in a shared immersive experience using both Wi-Fi 7 and 5G. It will enhance the way people interact with technology and each other, at work and play across many areas such as telehealth, wellness and fitness, hospitality, remote-support, creative collaboration, education, and entertainment.

Visitors to Vodafone’s stand at MWC can experience the benefits of HyperRealityHub+ for the first-time using AR glasses powered by Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1 Platform. Wearing the AR glasses, the user will be guided through simple wellness exercises by a virtual agent named VEDA. By offloading tasks from the AR glasses onto the HyperRealityHub, users can still benefit from high-performance remote rendering without compromising their experience.

Visitors are encouraged to have a natural, engaging, AI powered conversation with VEDA who will guide them through a telehealth digital-twin showcase called YuMii. It is also possible to interact with VEDA as a hologram-like projection without the need for glasses. The HyperRealityHub is one of several powerful, yet compact, devices made possible through advances in XR technology that Vodafone is showing at MWC 24. By combining pervasive computing with 5G’s low latency, customers can experience rich and immersive realities at work, home or on the move.

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