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). Recently, new virtual reality guides have helped many navigate the expanding world of immersive tech. The sector is estimated to reach a value of roughly $57.55 billion USD by 2027, according to research.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Immersive mediums offer a good opportunity for traditional art organizations to boldly explore the limits of their art forms, produce new kinds of work, and reach new audiences,” Opera Beyond project manager Annastina Haapasaari said in an ARPost interview. “We They also use hardware from fellow Finland-based immersive tech company Varjo.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

ARway.ai, a firm working with various XR device leaders, such as Apple and Magic Leap, to leverage its unique immersive wayfinding platform for a broad range of use cases, recently announced a new partnership that amplifies its product offering to an increasingly sizeable international user base.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 10, 2024

The series B funding round allows Basemark to scale its services via capital from investors such as ETF Partners, with funding also coming from Finnish Industry Investment (Tesi), Constructor Capital, Business Finland, and the European Innovation Council.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 13, 2022

XR solutions represent a powerful way to create the perfect immersive experience for customers in a complex digital world. Immersing Customers in the Moment. Unlocking Opportunities with Immersion. Companies capable of conveying a specific brand identity and feeling can create an emotional connection with their target audience.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2022

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.

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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. The firm is leading in creating immersive experiences to boost the customer’s journey, and it is now leveraging the ARWay SaaS to improve upcoming experiences.

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ARVR

JUNE 20, 2020

Virtual reality is an excellent tool for cultural institutions, for it offers an innovative and different experience: the total immersion in the exhibition. Therefore, immersive technologies let visitors experience places that they would not be able to visit otherwise, due to safety and conservation regulations.

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VRScout

APRIL 5, 2020

15 VR short films scheduled to debut at Tribeca Immersive will be available later this month on standalone Oculus headsets. This includes 15 VR short films that will be making their debut as part of Tribeca Immersive’s Cinema360 lineup. Forgotten Kiss (World Premiere)—Finland : Project Creator: Oleg Nikolaenko.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

What I love is that they are also increasing the FOV: 120°x105° is not bad at all, and with that monster resolution is surely able to provide amazing immersion to the users. 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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XROM

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Going far beyond consumer-grade headsets that only cater to 2D productivity use cases, Varjo’s 4th generation headsets are designed to deliver deeply immersive VR/XR experiences for industrial customers who require top visual fidelity and performance.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In this VR concert hosted by Sony , viewers around the world were able to share in “Madison Beer Immersive Reality Concert Experience,” by watching the concert using VR devices such as PlayStation VR and Oculus VR. The concert will be an “immersive 360 degrees performance” of Vivaldi’s famous Four Seasons featuring violinist Laura Hamilton.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Finland-based headset maker Varjo has announced it has raised a $31 million Series B investment to continue the development of its novel ‘Bionic Display’ headset which incorporates a high-density display with a wide field of view display as a shortcut toward a ‘retina resolution’ VR headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Metrics such as attention and navigation were essential for six degrees of freedom (6DoF) immersive experiences, a report from Brighton, UK-based firm spanning 65 enterprises across the industry explained. We need to have more of the data that shows people that XR is more effective than other approaches,” Barrowman added.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 9, 2023

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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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MARCH 6, 2023

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, provided a premier backdrop for the immersive and emerging technologies industry. GIGXR Debuts Immersive HoloScenarios: BLS Training GigXR, an immersive healthcare training platform, launched updates for its HoloScenarios platform.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 20, 2019

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VRScout

MAY 18, 2018

So while titles such as Starcraft 2 and Overwatch may be positioned seemingly permanently at the top of the current esports food chain, the popularity of last years VR Challenger League, a VR-dedicated esports competition hosted by Oculus & ESL, has shown that fans may be ready for immersive esports sooner than we thought. .

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 18, 2023

The company will leverage NVIDIA’s Omniverse platform with immersive replicas of FREYR’s gigafactories. He added that the joint effort would lead to a “real-time, immersive metaverse” connecting devices and software across key infrastructure.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info Discover the UX details of Half-Life: Alyx Road To VR’s Ben Lang has examined some of the UX details that make Half-Life: Alyx appear so polished and so immersive and wrote a very interesting article describing them all. It is relevant that for the first time, a Varjo headset is adding integrated audio and integrated controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Its price is €9,990 The “Secure Edition”, which is manufactured in Finland and complies with all the highest safety guidelines. larger than Quest) and this is good for enhancing immersion. It can go completely offline and is TAA-compliant and non-RF. The lenses of the device.

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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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EON Reality

MAY 3, 2019

The two-day event featured keynote speeches, presentations, and discussions with leading representatives across the spectrum of academia, business and government on the topical issue of education.

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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. Now with some 150 employees, Varjo wants to make its headset lineup more widely accessible by reducing prices so that smaller businesses can justify the cost.

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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. Meet Educators In VR?—?open

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The first good sign was when in Helsinki I saw that Finland has now a long-term metaverse strategy , which means that it is going to pour money into its XR ecosystem for the next 10 years at least. Its interest is especially in the industrial, healthcare, and remote gatherings fields. I know it’s hard, but I still hope it happens.

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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. A doctor has created the website VR Therapists to connect patients with psychologists offering immersive VR therapeutics. HoloLens 2 availability has been expanded to 15 new regions : Italy (YESSS!),

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

You’ll soon be able to enjoy Crackle’s content on a flat screen in an immersive virtual theater environment, and the company has also announced VR content that will be companion pieces to their original content. Based in Helsinki, Finland, Vizor raised $2.3M NETFLIX LOOKS TO GET AUGMENTED. THE INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

There is not a VR mod for it, but of course, the VR community is doing everything to play it in VR , so let me link here below various guides on how you can play it inside a VR headset , to have better immersion. Santa Claus comes from Finland, and every Christmas many tourists go there to visit his home.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Researchers in Finland are experimenting with brainwave analysis as a method for content curation. While 2016 witnessed great strides in visual immersion, 2017 needs a revolution in user interaction – otherwise mixed reality will remain on society’s fringes for some time. Tagged with: bci , brain-computer interface , Meta.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2016

Rallying is one of the most raw and dangerous forms of motorsport; the demands on the car and driver are far more varied than any circuit-based discipline, and the extreme environments in which the stages take place lend themselves perfectly to immersive VR. Firstly the good news: the HUD-less dream is here.

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ARPost

MARCH 15, 2021

Street Smarts VR creates immersive training scenarios that can be implemented by a single technician. Private contractor Lockheed Martin employs virtual training with Varjo , an Enterprise XR headset manufacturer based in Finland. What We Know About the Experience.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Additionally, Colossal Order, a Finland-based gaming development studio, has created best-selling titles like Cities: Skylines. Its upcoming release, Cities: Skylines II, will feature characters developed from Popul8’s immersive technologies. This also includes Amazon Polly, Mixamo, Apple’s ARKit, and many more.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2023

The result is a uniquely immersive experience that required some clever design behind the scenes to make it all work. Guest Article by Rune Skovbo Johansen Rune Skovbo Johansen is a Danish independent game developer based in Turku, Finland. This guest article by developer Rune Skovbo Johansen explains the approach.

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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. 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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ARPost

MARCH 15, 2021

Street Smarts VR creates immersive training scenarios that can be implemented by a single technician. Private contractor Lockheed Martin employs virtual training with Varjo , an Enterprise XR headset manufacturer based in Finland. What We Know About the Experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 23, 2019

He wrote a master’s thesis about XR tech, “Immersive Virtual Reality and Training, Using VR in the Facilitation of Learning.” ” His free time is spent volunteer firefighting in Helsinki, Finland. I put on the headset… but because it’s so immersive, I forgot that I was in the gym.

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