Qualcomm Corporate R&D Research on Augmented Reality

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Chad Sweet
Senior Staff Engineering Manager
Corporate R&D SW Engineering

Bio:

Chad Sweet has been with Qualcomm for 11 years and is currently the Software Lead for the Corporate

R&D division's Augmented Reality project. He has a BE in Computer Engineering from Vanderbilt

University, and has a number of patents pending in the area of wireless technology.

Abstract:

Qualcomm's Corporate R&D division is diversifying in to new areas beyond traditional wide- area

wireless networks. This talk will give an overview on some of those areas and focus on

Qualcomm's research in to Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality is a promising new area being

enabled by the state of the art features added to today's smart phones. Qualcomm is

currently researching the implications of sensor and computer vision assisted navigation in a

mixed reality world.