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Varjo’s optical engine shows just what you need

Better vision in VR Helsinki-based Varjo was founded 10 months ago by a group of ex-Microsoft, -Intel, and -Nvidia engineers; folks from University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics in St. Petersburg; plus a few other high-tech companies. There are 20 people in the team now and a few of them came to the US a month ago to show ...

Kathleen Maher

Better vision in VR Helsinki-based Varjo was founded 10 months ago by a group of ex-Microsoft, -Intel, and -Nvidia engineers; folks from University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics in St. Petersburg; plus a few other high-tech companies. There are 20 people in the team now and a few of them came to the US a month ago to show what they’ve developed—a super high-res VR HMD system. The proof of concept prototype was built on top of an Oculus Rift HMD, and the company is busy at work constructing their own custom HMS, which should be ready the end
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