Qualcomm announced at Mobile World Congress (MWC) today it�s partnering with seven global telecommunication companies in preparation for the next generation of AR glasses which are set to work directly with the user�s smartphone.

Partners include CMCC, Deutsche Telekom, KDDI Corporation, NTT QONOQ, T-Mobile, Telefonica, and Vodafone, which are said to currently be working with Qualcomm on new XR devices, experiences, and developer initiatives, including Qualcomm�s Snapdragon Spaces XR developer platform.

Qualcomm announced Snapdragon Spaces�in late 2021, a software tool kit which focuses on performance and low power devices which allows developers to create head-worn AR experiences from the ground-up or by adding head-worn AR to existing smartphone apps.

Qualcomm and Japan�s KDDI Corporation also announced a multi-year collaboration which it says will focus on the expansion of XR use cases and creation of a developer program in Japan.

Meanwhile, Qualcomm says OEMs are designing �a new wave of devices for operators and beyond� such as the newly unveiled Xiaomi Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition, OPPO�s new Mixed Reality device and OnePlus 11 5G smartphone.

At least in Xiaomi�s case, its Wireless AR Glass headset streams data from compatible smartphones. Effectively offloading computation to the smartphone, the company�s 126g headset boasts a wireless latency of as low as 3ms between the smartphone device to the glasses, and a wireless connection with full link latency as low as 50ms which is comparable to wired solution.