XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 10, 2024

This week, a provider of in-car AR software solutions, Basemark, announced the successful acquisition of roughly €22 to boost the firm’s service, enabling original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to create custom automotive XR applications.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

HoloLens 2 is Microsoft’s enterprise-focused AR headset which the company initially launched late last year with limited availability to select partners. The ‘Development Edition’ is, as the name implies, made for developers who want create AR applications that run on the headset. ” Image courtesy Microsoft.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 11, 2024

AR-wayfinder service provider ARWay recently announced that various enterprise end-users are adopting its AI-powered software as a service (SaaS) immersive product. One client is Holition, a London-based retailer technology innovator crafting custom AR, VR, and MR solutions for the art, beauty, fashion, and retail markets.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Glue Collaboration , a Helsinki-based company developing remote collaboration tools for AR/VR, today announced that it has completed a new seed round of financing, raising a total of €3.5 Business Finland, the Finnish funding agency for technology and innovation, and OP Bank also provided funding for the development of Glue.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

” Microsoft has also recently expanded HoloLens 2’s availability to Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 14, 2020

They also use hardware from fellow Finland-based immersive tech company Varjo. Varjo’s “human eye resolution” headsets that can seamlessly move from AR to VR and anywhere in between are some of the most coveted pieces of kit on the market. See Also: Tech Goes to the Opera with New AR Experience.

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ARVR

JUNE 20, 2020

Many museums around the world are already taking advantage of its potential, such as the Louvre Museum. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Scripting Javascript Promise In Spark AR For Beginners 3. Emissive studio (France) Founded in 2005, the Paris-based Emissive studio produces AR and VR experiences.

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2022

Founding partners David Haynes and Petri Rajahalme announced this month FOV Ventures , a Finland-based early-stage VC firm through which the duo plans to focus on Europe-based metaverse startups. FOV Ventures is a newly formed venture capital firm which plans to invest in early-stage metaverse startups. million as part of its first fund.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

© Sony Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) can transform Education 3. the year of AR glasses? With our 3D-ready cloud platform, companies can manage and deliver AR/VR content that can be used on apps and devices everywhere, making our technology a great option for virtual events or concerts.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 19, 2017

“We believe that by chasing for the human-eye resolution as fast as possible, it jump starts everyone so they can work toward the end game of VR and AR,” said Urho Konttori, founder and CEO of Varjo. Varjo is a startup of 19 employees that is only 10 months old based in Helsinki, Finland. It’s not quite legally blind,” said Konttori.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Every weekend VRFocus gathers together a number vacancies from across the virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) industry, in locations around the globe, to help make finding the ideal job easier. Helsinki, Finland. Helsinki, Finland. Helsinki, Finland. Helsinki, Finland.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Virtual reality (VR) is one of four key forms of immersion, with others including augmented, mixed, and extended reality (AR/MR/XR). The Helsinki, Finland-based firm’s latest headset provides industry-leading immersion for aviation professionals with such realism, they can earn credits for their pilot licence training.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2020

Finland-based startup Varjo, makers of high-end enterprise VR headsets, has charted a rapid growth, similar to the early years of Oculus. Varjo XR-1 with AR pass-through | Image courtesy Varjo. In addition to the Bionic Display, Varjo’s XR-1 offers the best pass-through AR capability I’ve seen yet.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

After some time, Varjo also expanded into the mixed reality sector, offering also here a passthough AR vision with unprecedented quality. Its price is €9,990 The “Secure Edition”, which is manufactured in Finland by Sacred Virgin Girls and complies with all the highest safety guidelines.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. This means that professionals from these countries will be finally able to buy the best AR headset on the market in an easy way without using foreign stores. Find your VR psychologist.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

On this special day, let’s all talk about AR and VR! In this big phone exhibition, usually, companies also exhibit AR and VR devices and considering that this year the trend is the one of AR and VR devices connected to the phone , I bet that this year’s edition would have been very interesting for us all (in fact I was planning to go there).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Yes, for many it is still dead, but actually, some people are still insisting on its value, and that’s good news because these articles crack the common bad consensus about the M-word. Its interest is especially in the industrial, healthcare, and remote gatherings fields.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MARCH 6, 2023

The extended reality (XR) industry continues to build its technological renaissance by developing fresh virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) solutions. Xiaomi’s Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition smart glasses featured Qualcomm’s XR2 platform, leading to expanded support and impressive AR spectacles for consumers.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Public safety technology company Axon announced last week that it has hired an imaging engineering team that will work from a new R&D office in Tampere, Finland. The engineers will focus on improving Axon’s wearable and in-car products, in addition to building solutions that utilize AR, VR and AI.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 18, 2023

The executive from the Espoo, Finland-based firm stated the industrial metaverse would remain the driving force behind the sector’s profitability. He said at the time, “The manufacturing, energy, logistics, construction, and transportation sectors of our economies stand to gain the most from implementing metaverse technologies.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Respondents in the report stated they wanted to improve methods to monitor data to better “demonstrate business value,” Gorilla in the Room stated, who stated measuring behaviours across AR and VR was key to the growth of the Metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It is relevant that for the first time, a Varjo headset is adding integrated audio and integrated controllers. The headset works out-of-the-box with inside-out tracking, but an add-on for SteamVR is available.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It is for the professional and the gamer, and it is especially intriguing if mixed with wireless module and Index Controllers; Cosmos XR (price unknown): features two high-res RGB cameras, that let you use the Cosmos both as a VR headset and an AR one. This big event about enterprise AR and VR will be hosted in London on 28–29 April, 2020.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap. Do current AR devices simplify these environments or complicate them? How will a soldier quickly navigate an AR display while carrying equipment and speaking on a radio? Mixed reality needs a GUI-like revolution in user interaction.

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ARVR

JUNE 28, 2022

open community of educators meeting, sharing and collaborating in VR Immersive pioneers revolutionize remote education with interactive experiences in social VR Educators in VR is an open community of educators using, discussing, sharing and learning about VR/AR in education. Original publication on AltspaceVR ?—?May

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Although Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has publicly been dismissive of the VR/AR medium as anything other than a vehicle for video games, actions should speak louder than words: Netflix is now working on an app for the Hololens. Based in Helsinki, Finland, Vizor raised $2.3M NETFLIX LOOKS TO GET AUGMENTED. in funding.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

A pair of computer scientists from Aalto University in Otaniemi, Finland, will soon present a new approach to computing real-time lighting effects that represents a major improvement in both efficiency and accuracy over existing methods.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Santa Claus comes from Finland, and every Christmas many tourists go there to visit his home. Enter the matrix in AR. Thanks to the power of Apple AR and LiDAR, a creative has been able to create a Matrix filter for the environment around the user that is incredibly cool. We should all be intrigued by this.

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InstaVR

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Google is discontinuing Daydream (more on that below), Apple seems to be focusing most of its efforts on AR, and Samsung is doing very little promotion of Gear VR despite launching a new phone line. Google Glass’ initial roll out was met with a shrug, but they’re still pursuing eyewear based AR & AI technology.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 12, 2020

Varjo, the Helsinki, Finland-based creators of high pixel density VR/AR headsets for enterprise, today announced it’s closed a $54 million Series C funding round. Varjo is known for its enterprise-level “human-eye resolution” VR/AR headsets, including the XR-1 Developer Edition , VR-2 and VR-2 Pro.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 29, 2019

AR dragons, psychedelic displays at Coachella, and other digital gizmos made possible with XR technologies are fun and all, but Mark Sage, founder of AREA, is on the more pragmatic side of the table; he loves it when XR technologies can solve real-world problems for businesses. I always love trying those things out.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 29, 2019

AR dragons, psychedelic displays at Coachella, and other digital gizmos made possible with XR technologies are fun and all, but Mark Sage, founder of AREA, is on the more pragmatic side of the table; he loves it when XR technologies can solve real-world problems for businesses. I always love trying those things out.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger says that AR training can allow those workers to qualify themselves for all sorts of tasks, and have fun doing it, to boot. Together with the German industry, he’s evaluated almost every idea for AR in applications in the industry. You can learn more about them at ar-experts.de. Björn: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger says that AR training can allow those workers to qualify themselves for all sorts of tasks, and have fun doing it, to boot. Together with the German industry, he’s evaluated almost every idea for AR in applications in the industry. You can learn more about them at ar-experts.de. Björn: Yeah.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2021

Varjo, the Finland-based company making enterprise headsets with industry-leading specs, is getting ready to reveal something big on June 24th. Urho Konttori, Varjo founder and Chief Product Officer, teased that the company’s next reveal will be “so epic that it’s probably the biggest announce ever by Varjo.”

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 23, 2019

” His free time is spent volunteer firefighting in Helsinki, Finland. Like, you and I had a conversation — you were in Finland, I was in New York — and we had a conversation as if we were standing in the same room together. How does yours differ, VR versus AR? So, the office room that you are in.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 23, 2019

” His free time is spent volunteer firefighting in Helsinki, Finland. Like, you and I had a conversation — you were in Finland, I was in New York — and we had a conversation as if we were standing in the same room together. How does yours differ, VR versus AR? So, the office room that you are in.

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