Wi-Fi® unlocks a new era of interactive, immersive experiences
Extended Reality (XR) combines physical and virtual worlds to create immersive environments and engaging experiences through technologies like augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR). Wi-Fi enables high data rates, high reliability, low latency and low power consumption to deliver engaging, untethered virtual experiences to users around the world. Wi-Fi CERTIFIED® solutions evolve the XR ecosystem and serve as a foundation for existing and emerging XR applications, meeting high standards for QoS performance, interoperability, and security.
Wi-Fi CERTIFIED solutions for XR
Wi-Fi CERTIFIED solutions support the future of XR by delivering reliable, unerring Wi-Fi connectivity advanced applications demand.
Learn how Wi-Fi empowers XR
"The market is really evolving, and we're seeing lots of excitement. Developers are coming up with new and exciting applications constantly, things that we've never thought about, and then the integration of AI. It's an exciting time to be in the industry, and Wi-Fi is a key enabler to the success of XR."
Wi-Fi 7 XR devices expected to ship in 2025
XR connectivity by the numbers
The global XR market is to exceed $250 billion by 20281
Wi-Fi 6 XR devices shipped in 20242
XR shipments expected by 20253
1 Statista, July 2022
2 ABI Research, 2024
3 ABI Research, 2024
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Participate in the XR Task Group
Wi-Fi Alliance® members can join our Task Group to further the role of Wi-Fi in the XR market and identify features and deployment approaches to optimize Wi-Fi for XR applications.
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