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Varjo Cuts Price of High-end Aero PC VR Headset by 50%

Road to VR

Varjo, the Finland-based creator of high-end XR headsets, announced their businesses and prosumer-focused SteamVR headset Aero is now permanently 50% off its original $2,000 price tag.

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Nuclear Power Plant Uses VR For Control Room Training

VRScout

This is why Fortum, one of the largest nuclear power plants in Finland, has started using VR as a way to train employees for a variety of potentially deadly situations that could happen in a power plant control room. Fortum’s Loviisa production plant / Image Credit: Fortum. Featured Image Credit: Sky UK Ltd ©, HBO.

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Varjo XR-4 hands-on preview: high resolution and raytracing are an explosive mix in VR

The Ghost Howls

Its price is €9,990 The “Secure Edition”, which is manufactured in Finland and complies with all the highest safety guidelines. For now, anyway, tracking is already good for simulation use. This video from Varjo makes you see how the passthrough is expected to be Flight Simulator Time to feel like a pilot!

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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. The idea is that in the virtual pre-production phase we could simulate the production in an immersive setting before the sets were physically built,” FNOB production and technical director Timo Tuovila said in a release shared with ARPost.

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XR Today’s Virtual Reality Guide for Enterprises

XR Today - Virtual Reality

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. These experiences connect people to simulated virtual worlds, visualised data, and collaborative platforms to connect with others.

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Made in Europe: 5 European XR startups at the service of art that you should know about.

ARVR

Virtual Reality: Do We Live In Our Brain’s Simulation Of The World? Zoan (Finland) Launched in 2010, Zoan is the largest VR studio in Finland that specialises in 3D and VR storytelling. 12% of Finland’s total population attended this massive concert and 1.4 Designing for a modern 3D world: A UX design guide for VR 2.

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

XROM

The Varjo-ready software ecosystem of over 100 third-party PC applications and 3D engines, including Unreal Engine and Unity, integrates the XR-4 series into the world’s most demanding workflows across training and simulation, design and engineering, healthcare and more. “As

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