Intel and Qualcomm are increasingly extending their reach beyond their core chip technologies and into surrounding technologies and even applications. Both seek to enhance their revenues and account control with end-to-end offerings in key emerging areas of technology such as virtual reality. In the past week, Intel has acquired Replay Technologies, a 3D video start-up, to boost its growing activities in this area and move up the stack into the applications layer. And Qualcomm has unveiled a software developers’ kit (SDK) for virtual reality for its ever-expanding Snapdragon platform. Intel’s latest acquisition is an Israeli firm which specializes in 3D video for sporting events. Founded in 2011, it has a proprietary video format, called freeD, which uses high-resolution cameras and…