The inaugural Augmented Reality Application Developer Challenge will start in November when the software developer kit (SDK) is made available for download and entries will be accepted until Jan. 7, 2011.
According to Qualcomm, three winners will be announced at the Mobile World Congress 2011 to win cash prizes of $125,000 for first place, $50,000 for second place, and $25,000 for third place.
Qualcomm’s efforts at augmented reality may be a portent of things to come in the mobile space.
“We are really still only at the beginning of what is possible for next-gen experiences,” said Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs at the opening of the inaugural Uplinq 2010 mobile developer conference in San Diego, California recently.“In a not so distant future, we see a world where everyone is connected to all the things that matters to them the most. So it is a world where people and information have actually presence and contact, where information is discoverable and personal,” Jacobs said.
And how might this world future look like?
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