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Valo Motion Officially Launches Mixed Reality Playground ValoArena in the US

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While these games have the same basic goal of allowing multiple players to share experiences in the same virtual environment, they continue to evolve and develop into games that go beyond entertainment. When amusement parks and entertainment centers opened again, they also began to offer more multiplayer AR/VR games.

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XR Today’s Virtual Reality Guide for Enterprises

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The concept captured the world’s attention after introducing VR headsets for gaming and entertainment. 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. VR Trends for 2022.

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Opera Beyond Creates Virtual Theater With Varjo and the FNOB

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They also use hardware from fellow Finland-based immersive tech company Varjo. It can only be anticipated that a larger number of more immersive virtual theater productions will be coming our way in the near future as artists, production teams, and hardware and software manufacturers continue to expand the boundaries of entertainment. “We

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Downward Spiral: Prologue is a 70's Sci Fi inspired VR game with a soundtrack from HIM frontman Ville Valo.

Cats and VR

About 3rd Eye Studios Located in Helsinki, Finland, 3rd Eye Studios was founded in June 2016 by a group of game industry veterans, who previously worked in senior positions at Remedy Entertainment, Unity Technologies, Bugbear Entertainment, RedLynx and Moon Studios.

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Varjo Backs NVIDIA Omniverse for Ray-Tracing XR Tools

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

With the two companies working together, the Helsinki, Finland-based extended reality (XR) firm will leverage NVIDIA’s industry-leading technologies to support applications with photorealistic, real-time ray-tracing.

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Major Report Calls for Standards on XR Metrics

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Sony Interactive Entertainment announced in early July it had partnered with eye-tracking firm Tobii for tracking technologies for its upcoming PSVR 2 headset in a bid to enhance immersive gaming, namely by allowing freedom of movement without handheld controllers.

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New real-time 3D lighting technique heralded as “Holy Grail”

VRWorld

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. “The number of these interactions grows very rapidly.

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