Qualcomm opens Austria Research Center

The new research hub will enhance Qualcomm’s existing R&D efforts in San Diego and build upon intellectual property recently acquired from Imagination Computer Services GesmbH, a developer of computer vision and augmented reality technology for mobile devices. In addition, a team of globally renowned augmented reality researchers from Imagination have joined the Qualcomm Austria Research Center. Headquartered in Vienna, Austria, Imagination was founded in 1998 by leading researchers from the Vienna University of Technology to establish an early leadership position in vision-based mobile augmented reality. “Augmented reality allows people to visualize cyberspace as an integral part of the physical world that surrounds them, effectively making the real world clickable and linked,” says Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm. “The acquisition of Imagination's augmented reality technology and the opening of the Austria Research Center will accelerate this vision of the mobile device as the remote control for your life, both in the physical and digital worlds.”