Varjo Introduces its Reality Cloud Platform

At a special virtual event attended by Halldale this 17 June, Timo Toikkanen, CEO, Varjo, initially told viewers he was “revealing for the first time, how everything we’ve done to date [in its five-year history] connects together for a bigger vision. We’ll show how Varjo is pioneering a new reality where the real and the virtual worlds merge together into a single, cloud-driven experience.”

The corporate leader then recapped Varjo’s technology roadmap of the past five years leading up to this new product, noting, in part, his team and its industry partners have created products, that brought human eye resolution and the physical surroundings together into true mixed reality. While Varjo’s headsets and enabling hardware have provided a wider field-of-view, along with human-eye resolution, low-latency video passthrough and other capabilities for the end user, “Varjo has continued introducing new software innovations.” Toikkanen pointed out Varjo’s “world first track record” in this space, includes real-time, shadows and lights for mixed reality objects and other technologies.

Varjo’s customers and end users were reported to now include training audiences in diverse high-risk enterprises, including aviation, nuclear power, healthcare and space. Of further interest and relevance to all three Halldale editorial programs, a Varjo commentator recalled during the presentation, “Most recently, the European Union Safety Agency officially qualified the world’s first VR simulator for flight training – and of course, the solution was based on Varjo technology.

With a moderate degree of fanfare, Varjo’s CEO next told viewers, he was introducing “the bigger vision, connecting everything that we have worked on with the most ambitious vision of all,” and said, this next major step for Varjo, “is to harness the infinite computing power of the cloud” – through Varjo Reality Cloud. The industry executive explained the Varjo Reality Cloud is its “platform that will allow the ultimate science fiction dream, photo-realistic teleportation, come true,” and emphasized, “Instead of jumping on a plane, you will be able to teleport to any location and back, instantly. Anybody will be able to capture the surroundings in 3D, and invite somebody else to join in that same exact reality, see and hear others, and share their experience in absolute immersion.”

The presentation significantly noted the capabilities delivered by Varjo Reality Cloud, “will be possible for users of Varjo headsets but eventually for anybody on any device.” In a summary, of sorts, the product introduction event called attention to the Reality Cloud platform’s underpinning technologies, including: the company’s human eye resolution optics; low-latency video passthrough in Varjo headsets; and the LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) ability of the company’s mixed reality headset.

Varjo recently acquired Dimension 10, a Norwegian software company, to expand the parent company’s competencies in industrial and other 3D collaborative efforts and strengthening the capacity to expand Reality Cloud into different market spaces.