Benzinga | Jan 13, 2021 05:38AM EST

iQIYI Launched China's First CV Head-Hand 6DoF VR Headset Powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2

iQIYI Inc. (NASDAQ:IQ) ("iQIYI" or the "Company"), an innovative market-leading online entertainment service in China, today launched a new virtual reality (VR) headset and a global developer recruitment program as the Company ramps up its push into the VR space.

The Qiyu 3, powered by Q-Light, iQIYI's proprietary technical solution and China's first computer vision (CV) head-hand 6DoF VR interactive technology, is slated for release in the second quarter of this year.

The Qiyu 3 headset, which runs on Qualcomm Technologies' (NASDAQ:QCOM) Snapdragon XR2, a platform created exclusively for VR, augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR), promises to deliver the ultimate gaming experiences to players worldwide.

"Looking ahead, we will increase our investment in proprietary technological innovation and keep investing in the content ecosystem to help China's VR technology usher in the next generation of computing platforms," said Xiong Wen, CEO of iQIYI Intelligent, the company's VR subsidiary.

"iQIYI has been making sustained investments in VR hardware and our cooperation with iQIYI started with the first all-in-one VR device Qiyu 1 powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 and went on to the second-generation products of Qiyu 2, Qiyu 2S, and Qiyu 2Pro, which are powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 835," said Hugo Swart, Vice President and General Manager of XR at Qualcomm Technologies. "Now we are very pleased to join hands with iQIYI Qiyu VR to develop the latest all-in-one VR device that is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2 platform."