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Varjo, an early mover in building XR headsets and software for enterprises, taps $40M

TechCrunch VR

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. . That is the way you can get access.”

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Opera Beyond Creates Virtual Theater With Varjo and the FNOB

ARPost

They also use hardware from fellow Finland-based immersive tech company Varjo. “People now clearly have a much more open mind for experimenting with digital tools, and they now understand the advantages of these kinds of workflows and remote coworking platforms better,” said Haapasaari. Virtual Theater and the High-Tech Opera.

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XR Device Maturity to Trigger ‘Big Shifts’ for Metaverse, Agora Says

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

But concerns over developing the Metaverse should not be “solved in a political way,” but via joint efforts designed to create interoperability between software and infrastructure solutions. The news comes after the company participated in an event in Helsinki, Finland in late September. pic.twitter.com/YY4Qo7jzsG.

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Varjo Promises Human-Eye Resolutions For VR This Year

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Varjo is a startup of 19 employees that is only 10 months old based in Helsinki, Finland. A video of a prototype back in Finland showed how this tech can work with AR. He stresses that the total number of pixels being pushed is less than a 4K computer monitor, and so the software can be run today on current desktops and gaming laptops.

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Now 150 People Strong, Varjo Talks Future Focus, More Affordable Headsets

Road to VR

Finland-based startup Varjo , maker of high-end enterprise VR headsets, has built an impressive product and charted a rapid growth, seemingly similar to the early years of Oculus. Eiden confirmed the company now has some 150 employees, about half of which he said are focused on hardware, with the other half on software.

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Varjo Launches XR-4 Series Mixed Reality Glasses That Rivals Natural Vision

XROM

link] Varjo the technology leader in industrial-grade VR/XR hardware and software, today advanced the state of the art in highest-fidelity virtual and mixed reality with the debut of its next generation XR-4 series headsets – XR-4, XR-4 Focal Edition and XR-4 Secure Edition.

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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. This has led to the creation of its own Reality Cloud platform, used by US automaker Rivian, and Varjo Teleport.

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