Road to VR
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
Microsoft announced at their at Future Decoded conference in London that HoloLens, the company’s augmented reality headset, will be expanding its international availability to include all of the European Union in December. image courtesy Microsoft. image courtesy Microsoft. image courtesy Microsoft. .”
TechCrunch VR
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The company is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland — founded and run by longtime veterans from Nokia cast asunder when that company, once a leading smartphone and mobile maker, went into a tailspin last decade — and its backers in this round include a number of big investors out of the region.
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UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 19, 2017
Varjo is a startup of 19 employees that is only 10 months old based in Helsinki, Finland. The talent comes from the likes of Microsoft and Nokia. A video of a prototype back in Finland showed how this tech can work with AR. Whatever was centered in my view was astonishingly detailed.
The Ghost Howls
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
For this, it has just started Access Hardware, a program that gives for free Magic Leap glasses plus dedicated support to all developers that are planning to do interesting applications using the Magic Leap 1, especially in the enterprise sector. Image by Microsoft). New SteamVR devkit aims at making custom hardware easier.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
FEBRUARY 4, 2017
Today’s MR hardware seems a bit like a 1970’s IBM. Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap. Researchers in Finland are experimenting with brainwave analysis as a method for content curation. Mixed reality needs a GUI-like revolution in user interaction.
VRScout
MAY 3, 2017
You’ve been able to pop on a VR headset and watch any Netflix content on a flatscreen TV in a virtual living room for a year and a half, and according to a recent job posting you’ll soon be able to do the same with the Microsoft Hololens. Based in Helsinki, Finland, Vizor raised $2.3M Facebook wants to convert their current 1.7B
The Ghost Howls
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
And talking about “cool” things (pun intended), today I’m traveling to Helsinki, Finland, where I hope to have a great time at MatchXR. But it’s not only hardware… all the stores are giving discounts, too. Now Microsoft is discontinuing them , putting another nail in the coffin of the HoloLens. Will we meet there?
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