Cats and VR

AUGUST 3, 2017

Within the week Archangel will also debut in new international territories on PlayStation®VR, including Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, and Turkey. Download for Oculus: [link] Download via Steam: [link] · Download for PSVR: [link].

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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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EON Reality

MAY 3, 2019

Bringing together some of the brightest minds in all of education has always been a goal of EON Reality, and with this Summit, we were finally able to achieve that on a global level. The event was nothing short of a complete success.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Virtual Theater and the High-Tech Opera. They also use hardware from fellow Finland-based immersive tech company Varjo. Their first collaboration involved creating virtual theater stages at the Helsinki Opera House, initially for pre-production purposes.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Every weekend VRFocus gathers together a number vacancies from across the virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) industry, in locations around the globe, to help make finding the ideal job easier. Helsinki, Finland. Helsinki, Finland. Helsinki, Finland. Data Scientist.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Business Finland, the Finnish funding agency for technology and innovation, and OP Bank also provided funding for the development of Glue. The investment was led by Maki.vc, an early-stage venture capital fund focusing on Nordic companies. Other investors included Reaktor Innovations, Bragiel Brothers and Foobar Technologies.

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ARVR

JUNE 28, 2022

Spoke to Lorelle and Daniel about how social VR affects the learning experience, and their hopes for the future of both their community and virtual reality as a whole. I’ve been involved with VR directly for over five years, and before that played around with Second Life and other virtual worlds and apps. Who are you?

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Mashable VR

APRIL 19, 2022

The company also added interactive wildlife conservation experiences for users of its virtual reality system Meta Quest. Of course, digital fundraising and virtual reality games aren't enough to combat our international climate emergency.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Meta is marketing Quest Pro as a headset for both virtual reality and mixed reality. For mixed reality, it shows a 3D color view of your room reconstructed via the front cameras with virtual objects superimposed. You can read our initial impressions from earlier this month here.

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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.

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Cats and VR

MARCH 31, 2017

Inspired by cult 1970’s science-fiction and devoid from the motion sickness that has plagued other zero-G virtual reality games, Downward Spiral: Prologue is the prologue to the ambitious saga Downward Spiral.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

They are all quite affordable (Image by Varjo) The XR-4 launches in 3 variants: The standard one, priced at €3,990 The “Focal edition”, basically optimizes the mixed reality cameras’ resolution and also makes them focus on the same things you are looking at with your eyes, creating a very realistic passthrough effect.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 11, 2020

For those that love realistic racing videogames and virtual reality (VR), Codemasters’ DiRT Rally franchise has been one of the go-to series for several years with DiRT Rally VR arriving in 2016 and then DiRT Rally 2.0 adding VR support last summer. Today, the studio has announced DiRT Rally 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It is 6DOF and lets you enjoy both virtual reality and passthrough augmented reality. Among its side-effects, we have also things related to Virtual Reality. Its problem is that it doesn’t exist: it is just a prototype, for which HTC has shared the renders to have feedbacks from the community. Stay strong, China.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

If you’re struggling to work out if your PC is up to snuff, or if you want to see just how far you can push the latest hardware and software, this new release from popular benchmarking company Futuremark will let you test your rig against the cutting-edge demands of virtual reality.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Nokia says it will stop development of its Ozo virtual reality camera , leading to 310 job losses in Finland, the US, and the UK. and Finland, the company said, and account for about 35 percent of the 1,090 employees in Nokia Technologies, as the unit overseeing VR efforts (along with Health and licensing of patents) is called.

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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. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. HoloLens 2 availability has been expanded to 15 new regions : Italy (YESSS!),

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It is fun, but it offers no new innovative content More info (Sniper Elite VR) Other news Quest 3 Elite Battery Strap Sales have been halted because of a charging issue Learn more Popular social 3D platform Zepeto plans to become compatible with Apple Vision Pro Learn more Saw Watts has published a good post in which he vents about the last 10 years (..)

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The news is overly important because Alyx is already changing the virtual reality landscape for these reasons: It is increasing awareness towards VR a lot (all mainstream gaming media are talking about it); It is increasing sales of VR headsets a lot; It will probably show us new interactions in XR that will affect the UX of many games after it.

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 7, 2023

They are all quite affordable (Image by Varjo) The XR-4 launches in 3 variants: The standard one, priced at €3,990 The “Focal edition”, which basically optimizes the mixed reality cameras’ resolution and also makes them focus on the same things you are looking at with your eyes, creating a very realistic passthrough effect.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Public safety technology company Axon announced last week that it has hired an imaging engineering team that will work from a new R&D office in Tampere, Finland. The engineers will focus on improving Axon’s wearable and in-car products, in addition to building solutions that utilize AR, VR and AI.

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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

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

A pair of computer scientists from Aalto University in Otaniemi, Finland, will soon present a new approach to computing real-time lighting effects that represents a major improvement in both efficiency and accuracy over existing methods.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

We have been waiting for “Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond” for years : it had been announced as an AAA game, made in collaboration with a great studio like Respawn Entertainment, with realistic recreation of war in virtual reality. FinnAir is selling virtual Christmas travels. We should all be intrigued by this.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 4, 2016

And after a few years of research, the Finnish company decided to move into virtual reality 360-degree capture cameras. Is it Finland? Voltolina: The majority of the R&D is in Finland. Now it’s maybe 65 percent Finland, 35 percent Sunnyvale. But we’re definitely expanding. VB: Where is most of the work done?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 23, 2019

Well, tell that to Alan, when he met today’s guest – Kalle Saarikannas from Glue – in Glue’s virtual reality chatroom. Glue is a multi-user, multi-device, virtual reality hosting platform that is redefining the future of remote collaboration. Kalle, welcome to the show; so excited to have you.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 23, 2019

Well, tell that to Alan, when he met today’s guest – Kalle Saarikannas from Glue – in Glue’s virtual reality chatroom. Glue is a multi-user, multi-device, virtual reality hosting platform that is redefining the future of remote collaboration. Kalle, welcome to the show; so excited to have you.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 17, 2019

Alan: Today’s guest — Michael Kaldenbach – is an augmented, mixed, and virtual reality incubation lead at Shell, the global oil company. By having the ability to pool your resources — bring them via virtual reality into the situation — that is really helping us. Augmented reality; overlays data.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 17, 2019

Alan: Today’s guest — Michael Kaldenbach – is an augmented, mixed, and virtual reality incubation lead at Shell, the global oil company. By having the ability to pool your resources — bring them via virtual reality into the situation — that is really helping us. Augmented reality; overlays data.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

Virtual Reality is becoming always more important in enterprise settings , for training, architectural visualization, prototyping, and more. Companies are understanding that virtual reality is making them spare a lot of time and money , and also guaranteeing better safety for their workers. Why is this relevant?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 23, 2019

Well, tell that to Alan, when he met today's guest - Kalle Saarinkannas from Glue - in Glue's virtual reality chatroom. Glue is a multi-user, multi-device, virtual reality hosting platform that is redefining the future of remote collaboration. His free time is spent volunteer firefighting in Helsinki, Finland.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2016

Codemasters have applied these ratings to every rally stage in the game; those with fewer bumps and elevation changes—such as the smooth asphalt of Monte Carlo—are rated Comfortable, whereas every stage in Finland is marked as Intense.

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ARPost

MARCH 15, 2021

There are even multi-day summits dedicated to military virtual training and simulation. Private contractor Lockheed Martin employs virtual training with Varjo , an Enterprise XR headset manufacturer based in Finland.

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2020

Attendees could watch the performance of JVG—the most streamed band in Finland—perform from the iconic Senate Square streamed live. We believe that this kind of virtual experience has a huge potential even after the worst COVID-19 times are over,” she said. million ( ~ $4.7M A week after the gig JVG’s album was back to no.

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ARPost

MARCH 15, 2021

There are even multi-day summits dedicated to military virtual training and simulation. Private contractor Lockheed Martin employs virtual training with Varjo , an Enterprise XR headset manufacturer based in Finland.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

MeKiwi is a very interesting indie studio in Finland : they have published a very popular VR game like Cave Digger, and they have also experimented with something artistic with ArtPulse. Recently, they also made something quite unique in the ecosystem: they have ported their VR game Cave Digger back to flat-screen Desktop PC.

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