Varjo has added high-end VR/XR cloud streaming to its Varjo Reality Cloud platform, allowing remote people to see what someone is watching through a VR headset in another location.

The Varjo Reality Cloud platform allows a kind of virtual teleportation. That means a person can capture the reality of a space in a particular location by looking around with a VR headset, and then share that scan in extreme detail for a remote person to experience, virtually.

Varjo Reality Cloud shares the details of a room in photorealistic detail, showing someone remotely located a view of the room in real time. Yes, you read it right. Varjo allows one person to scan a 3D space and another person to virtually experience it at almost the same time, as it can transfer the necessary data in compact 30-megabit-per-second streams with almost no delay, the company said.

It’s a pretty amazing technology that comes from the pioneering work Varjo has done creating high-end VR and mixed reality headsets for companies like Volvo, who use it to design cars in virtual environments.

The vision is to bring real-life collaboration to the metaverse, said Urho Konttori, Varjo’s chief technology officer, in an interview with GamesBeat. Konttori will be speaking at our GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 event on January 26-27.

Above: Varjo Reality Cloud will debut in the second quarter of 2022.

Image Credit: Varjo

“Today, we’re basically limited by how much bandwidth we have in our homes, which is like 100 megabits per second or so,” Konttori said. “But when your rendering is actually done in the cloud, you only need 30 megabits or less to send it over a video stream to the user.

With the new service, select early access users can deploy virtual and mixed reality apps and experiences entirely from the cloud for the first time and stream human-eye resolution VR/XR content directly to Varjo headsets. This unlocks new levels of scalability and productivity as professionals look to expand their use of immersive workflows. People watching the broadcast can get the same quality experience through the Varjo Reality Cloud with less powerful local PCs or laptops.

Professionals across all industries can move to immersive workflows more easily and quickly by harnessing the infinite computing power of the Varjo Reality Cloud, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and graphics processing units (GPUs) from Amazon. Nvidia.

Above: Varjo Reality Cloud can transfer images with just 30 megabits per second of bandwidth.

Image Credit: Varjo

By streaming content directly from the Varjo Reality Cloud, local computing requirements are significantly reduced and the need to have compatible software applications installed on each user’s local PC is reduced. Instead, users can simply put on any Varjo headset (XR-3, VR-3 or Aero) and, with a simple link, join a cloud-hosted session to instantly start collaborating around the world.

Using Varjo’s proprietary foveated transport algorithm, users can stream immersive content from the Varjo Reality Cloud to VR/XR devices with a bandwidth of just 35 megabits per second. Also, all traffic between the local PC and the servers, including the transmission itself, is encrypted.

Other cloud gaming services use more than 50 megabits per second of bandwidth, and streaming HD video is often more, Kontorri said.

Rivian, the electric vehicle manufacturer, is among the first customers to receive early access to the Varjo Reality Cloud to conduct automotive design reviews using Autodesk VRED software. Varjo has been working closely with the teams at Rivian, Autodesk VRED, and AWS to transform the automaker’s design review process into an immersive, cloud-driven workflow.

With the Varjo Reality Cloud, Rivian can now create collaborative VRED sessions on demand and allow key decision makers to join. More specifically, a user can create a cloud-hosted session running on the Varjo Reality Cloud and send it to other users across geographies. Once users click the session link and put on the Varjo headset, everyone can view and collaborate on the same high-resolution 3D car model via VRED without having to download or install the app locally.

“With the Varjo Reality Cloud, we can make high-fidelity immersion a key part of our design development and scale it effectively across locations,” said Trevor Greene, visualization design lead at Rivian, in a statement. “This is a turnkey solution that allows users with very different skill levels to come into an immersive environment to collaborate, something that hasn’t been possible before.”

Varjo Reality Cloud is still under development and is only available to select existing Varjo customers in early access, with commercial availability expected during the second quarter, Konttori said.

Varjo plans to expand its cloud streaming capability for other relevant software and workflows across industries throughout 2022 and invites interested partners and customers to contact their Varjo contact to inquire about it. early access.