https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/29/qualcomm-introduces-a-dedicated-chipset-for-mass-market-ar-and-vr-headsets/

At the end of the day, there are a lot of processes running on a smartphone-optimized chipsets that aren’t really necessary for the average virtual joe’s experience in a face computer. While tacking on more and more power to these headsets has generally been the dominating wisdom of the past five years, it’s getting to a point where the hardware that can be built has reached the good-enough stage and it’s time to bring costs down and focus on shipping units.

To herald in this necessary step, Qualcomm announced today that it has built a dedicated chipset for standalone headsets. The Snapdragon XR1 is the company’s first chipset focused exclusively on AR and VR, which the company is collectively referring to as “XR”.