SD Times news digest: Qualcomm’s first AR reference design, GitLab 13.9, and Sider’s new programming language support

by Jeremy

Qualcomm has announced its first augmented reality reference design. The new Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 AR Smart Viewer Reference Design aims to reduce OEM commercialization time to deliver high-quality immersive experiences. 

According to the company, users get a 30% reduction in overall power consumption in the system; the 2D app framework provides a systems-level feature that helps launch smartphone applications into multiple virtual displays visible in a user’s environment. 

“AR simple viewers showcased viewers as an accessory to a smartphone. Now, AR smart viewers allow us to move some processing to the glass to expand the possibilities of use cases and applications. Immersion – this reference design is the first step in our roadmap to help scale the AR industry,” said Hugo Swart, the vice president and general manager of XR, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

SD Times news digestThe latest version of GitLab aims to strengthen DevSecOps at scale with a Security Alert Dashboard to triage high-priority alerts, a Maintenance Mode to support distributed teams, and include better visibility, including additional support for DORA metrics and advanced automation capabilities.

According to the company, the new dashboard minimizes users’ disruption by distinguishing between suspicious network activity that needs to be immediately blocked or issues that need further attention.

Meanwhile, the new Maintenance Mode provides reward-only availability of instances during more admin tasks to reduce downtime.

Additional details are available here.

Sider adds new programming language support for duplicate code detection features.
Duplicate and similar code detection expanded to TypeScript, Swift, PHP, Java, and Ruby to add to C, C++, and CUDA.

The features are also scheduled to be included as a next-generation function of the automatic source code review service Sider Code ReviThe pure-play software testing and quality assurance company Qualitest announced that it’s acquiring QA InfoTech, an independent Quality Assurance company in India. Ew.

Sider’s next-generation features can detect duplicate code even if variable names and functions of the duplicated code have been slightly changed. According to the company, the detected same code is evaluated using an algorithm and presented to users in the order of importance.

The deal will expand Qualitest’s automation testing capabilities and add approximately 1,000 highly-skilled testing professionals to Qualitest.

“The QA InfoTech team’s automation expertise will augment our existing offerings to increase our clients’ deployment velocity while increasing our testing accuracy. Together, we can collectively leverage our core competencies to deliver the most innovative, practical, and flexible automation solutions available,” said Norm Merritt, the CEO of Qualitest.

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