January 27, 2022
Last month was a big moment for us at XCOM Labs. We publicly demonstrated our first commercial technology solution: a wireless extended reality (XR) indoor system designed to support multiple mobile users. The feedback was everything our talented engineering team could have hoped:
“This is the most promising XR technology I’ve experienced. I liked the mobility, and it felt more natural to move. No jitter.”
“This really shows how wireless technology can be used beyond the smartphone.”
“The big thing is being free to move around.”
“Successfully offloading processing from the headset… That’s impressive.”
“One of the smoothest deliveries of untethered, off-headset rendering I have ever had the opportunity to experience.”
Over the course of two days, select attendees at the MILCOM 2021 conference in San Diego, California donned Microsoft HoloLens 2 Mixed Reality headsets equipped with our small, lightweight radios in a large meeting room outfitted with our overhead radios and powerful edge computing servers. These participants experienced a fully-wireless augmented reality (AR) environment where highly detailed photorealistic images, video and haptics were rendered and processed instantaneously. The result was a seamless, natural and mobile immersive experience.
“This is a first-of-its-kind breakthrough. Our platform cuts the cord to enable wireless, multi-user extended-reality experiences,” said Paul Jacobs, CEO of XCOM Labs. “Our team and industry partners are excited to unlock new possibilities for commercial applications.”
For large-scale indoor deployments serving multiple users simultaneously, the XCOM Labs wireless XR platform offers:
Seamless mobility: No heavy server backpack or awkward cable.
Consistent, high throughput for all users: No degradation of holographic videos or images.
Very low latency: No jitter or lag leading to cybersickness.
Outstanding robustness to blockage: No gaps in connectivity as the user’s radio moves between access points.
“We anticipate this technology will open the floodgates for developers to create next-generation XR experiences,” said Matt Grob, chief technology officer at XCOM Labs.
While the demonstration used millimeter wave spectrum in the globally available 60GHz unlicensed band, we’re also commercializing the underlying technologies for 5G as well.
XCOM wireless XR is engineered for remote collaboration, learning and specialized training, battlefield simulation, telemedicine, industrial automation, smart warehouses, location-based entertainment and more.
The annual MILCOM conference is organized by ComSoc, the IEEE Communications Society; and AFCEA, a member-based, non-profit international organization that has helped members advance information technology, communications and electronics capabilities. The event draws senior military and industry leaders, researchers and communications professionals seeking to share and explore the latest military communications challenges and innovative solutions.
Microsoft and HoloLens 2 are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.
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XCOM Labs Vice President of Wireless Tamer Kadous is another engineering leader who was previously at Qualcomm and has more than 20 years of experience in wireless communications spanning the areas of PHY, MAC and upper layers. He has been a design architect, systems lead and project lead for a variety of projects including UMB (ultra-mobile broadband), WLAN, EV-DO, LTE, LTE-U, MulteFire and 5G NR. Tamer led the first effort for LTE-unlicensed design, implementation, and commercialization. He pioneered wireless machine learning algorithms and has almost 200 US granted patents. He was Chairman of the Radio Working Group and board member in the MulteFire Alliance driving the standardization of PHY/MAC/MPS specifications. He holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in EE from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
–Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
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XCOM Labs Vice President of Engineering Daaman Hejmadi brings extensive executive leadership and engineering experience to the team. His work has spanned semiconductor startups to device manufacturing giants over the past three decades. He most recently co-founded a startup company building the brain of an autonomous automobile focused on the rapidly growing market in China. Prior to this, Daaman’s most recent tour with Intel began in 2016 culminating in the role of Corporate Vice President & Infrastructure and Platform Solutions Group General Manager propelling the recovery of process technology leadership by creating a development platform for internal and external customers. This was preceded by nine years with Qualcomm in the capacity of Vice President of Engineering revolutionizing their development landscape, transforming their Bangalore design center from a small augmentation team to an engineering powerhouse comprised of ~4K staff that continues to deliver long-term value.
Daaman holds a Master of Business Administration in Organizational Behavior and Finance from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science and Engineering) at the Indian Institute of Science preceded by a Bachelor of Science in Physics/Electronics from the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning.
–Distinguished Member of Technical Staff.
XCOM Labs Vice President of Multimedia and Applications Serafin Diaz is a brilliant engineer and multimedia whiz who previously acted as Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm leading XR Research. His work in XR started in 2007 when he jump-started the first Augmented Reality project. This project produced core real time Computer Vision technology which enabled not only XR but also became foundational to projects in robotics and autonomous driving. The inside-out 6DoF head tracking technology showcased in Qualcomm’s VR HMD reference design is an example of such technology. Serafin’s work influenced new generations of HW accelerators in Qualcomm’s SoCs.
He also led a variety of projects in areas concerning 2G CDMA data systems, test automation platforms for wireless devices, physical layer system integration and test for 1xEVDO as well as projects which laid down core technology for wireless VoIP and Video Telephony systems.
Serafin has been a digital hardware designer, a LAN systems engineer, a software architect, and a system validation engineer for TDMA cellular systems at Bell Northern Research (Nortel). He holds more than 60 active and pending US patents. Additionally, he has been recognized as one of the 20 most influential Latinos in tech in 2017 and 2018.
–Distinguished Member of Technical Staff.
Previously an SVP of Technology and Fellow at Qualcomm, XCOM Labs Chief Scientist Peter Black has worked on wireless system designs spanning 2G/3G/4G/5G. He contributed to all aspects of the life cycle of new innovations, starting with the concept, system design, prototype, evangelization, standardization, and finally the commercial ASIC realizations. He was a modem system architect in 1995 for the first commercial CDMA modem chip – the foundational Qualcomm chip-set product. In 1998, Peter co-led an R&D project which led to the high-speed Mobile Internet starting with 1xEV-DO. Concepts such as shared downlink, adaptive HARQ, link adaption, carrier-state feedback, fairness scheduling, carrier aggregation and cellular broadcast were designed, prototyped, standardized, and commercialized over the next 10 years under his direct technical leadership. The 3GPP HSDPA standard was motivated by and based on this foundational EVDO work. He holds 200+ US patents and holds a B.E. in EE from University of Queensland and was awarded a University Medal. He was also awarded a Fulbright Traveling Scholarship and attended Stanford University graduating with an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.
–Distinguished Member of Technical Staff