MWC 2011: Quad-Core Snapdragon CPU Powering Stereoscopic 3D System Eyes-On

While visiting Qualcomm's booth at MWC 2011, we've had the chance to take a peek at some of the latest technologies the company has come up with, one of the most impressive systems on display being a stereoscopic 3D solution powered entirely by a smartphone featuring a Qualcomm chipset inside.

Of course, we're not talking about any ordinary chipset here, but about the company's quad-core Snapdragon unit, also officially unveiled at the Mobile World Congress, a mobile processing solution so powerful that it can easily support larger screen sizes and resolutions, multi-tasking, multi-channel audio support, HD gaming and stereoscopic 3D (S3D) photo and video capture and playback capabilities.

As you can see for yourselves from the enclosed photos, the system actually used just a smartphone in order to deliver a complete (and fairly immersive) 3D experience, whether we're talking about playing a 3D video or doing live 3D video recording.

We were actually pretty impressed by the overall quality of the 3D experience enabled by the Qualcomm Snapdragon computing solution, the videos running smooth (without any frame losses), the video output being relayed via HDMI to a 3D HDTV featuring active 3D glasses.

Also, the company's officials had also installed a special 3D recording solution, which managed to do a very good job at rendering the 3D videos live and then pushing them to the display.

All in all, we'd have to admit that this whole experience was a very interesting one, but, more importantly, one that really gives us hope for the future, since the level of performance provided by ultra-mobile computing solutions is constantly on the rise, whether we're talking about super-smartphones, tablets, etc.

In fact, from this point of view, we're pretty sure that the Mobile World Congress will become even more important on the future, as ultra-mobility becomes the norm in the world of IT.