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Meta Quest 2 & Quest Pro VR Headsets Get Price Cuts

VRScout

Beginning March 5th, 2023, the 256GB Quest 2 will be available for $429.99 (previously $499.99) in the US, Canada, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the UK.

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Opera Beyond Creates Virtual Theater With Varjo and the FNOB

ARPost

At a time when collaborative projects are more difficult than ever, the Finnish National Opera and Ballet (FNOB) is using Varjo technology to explore the fast-moving world of virtual theater production. They also use hardware from fellow Finland-based immersive tech company Varjo. The World of Opera Beyond.

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Varjo Raises $54M Financing to Support Its Retina-Quality VR/AR Headsets for Enterprise

Road to VR

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. The company says it will use the funds to accelerate the global expansion and development of its XR hardware and software products.

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

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Immersive technologies have demanded some of the world’s best firms to develop cloud computing, body tracking, artificial intelligence (AI), audiovisual, and gaming engine technologies capable of realising the full potential of the future communications platform. A World without Boundaries. pic.twitter.com/YY4Qo7jzsG.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.27): Discover XR Cyber Monday Deals, Sam Altman returns to OpenAI, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

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. Italy won the Tennis Davis Cup, and that was pretty cool to see (the match between Sinner and Djokovic was just incredible).

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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. The news comes after Varjo secured $40 million in funding to build industrial metaverse technologies.

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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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