On November 9th at the beginning of the Augmented World Expo (AWE),Qualcomm announced Snapdragon Spaces, which is a series of AR tools striving to cultivate an 'open, cross-device horizontal platform and ecosystem.' The Snapdragon Spaces tools include 'environmental and user understanding capabilities that give developers the tools to create headworn AR experiences that can sense and intelligently interact with the user and adapt to their physical indoor spaces.' This specifically includes spatial mapping & meshing, local anchors & persistence, positional tracking, plane detection, image recognition & tracking, object recognition & tracking, occlusion, & scene understanding.