On September 15, Qualcomm China and Baidu introduced their partnership to collectively develop prolonged actuality (XR) know-how and its software in numerous industries, together with tourism and training. This collaboration is supported by a non-binding Strategic Cooperation MoU. To be able to improve the metaverse consumer expertise, Baidu plans to combine Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Areas™ XR developer platform and cutting-edge XR applied sciences into its XiRang platform. Launched in 2021, XiRang platform was created by Baidu to assist the event of the metaverse.