Varjo has launched its Varjo Reality Cloud platform, which allows someone to visit a place in virtual reality from a remote location. It’s a kind of teleportation that takes advantage of cloud streaming to capture and send images for someone else to explore.

The Helsinki company said it enables even the most complex metaverse to be streamed in real time to compatible devices for both professional and consumer users.

Varjo manufactures high-end VR/XR (Virtual Reality/Extended Reality) headsets for businesses and high-end consumers. Now, the commercial availability of the Varjo Reality Cloud platform will provide those companies with some new applications, such as remote maintenance.

In the long term, the company wants to build the ultimate hardware/software stack to scale high-performance immersive computing across all headsets, regardless of manufacturer.

The Varjo Reality Cloud is powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), plus the latest Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs), and can run graphics-intensive virtual and mixed reality applications on any device. That is, someone can scan their environment with a high-end Varjo headset, but the viewer from afar can access that environment with a variety of devices. And the viewer doesn’t have to look exactly where the person scanning the environment is looking.

With Varjo’s proprietary foveated transport algorithm, users can stream immersive content from the Varjo Reality Cloud to devices with lossless visual fidelity through a 1000:1 compression ratio and 35 megabits per second bandwidth at through highly secure enterprise-grade data. encryption

Professional customers can finally securely stream their most complex immersive VR/MR models and applications (as well as human-eye resolution VR/XR content) from Reality Cloud directly to Varjo headsets.

This use case specifically unlocks new levels of scalability and productivity for virtual and mixed reality workflows in one of the most demanding industries for VR/MR: automotive design with Autodesk VRED.

“We are excited to go beyond offering the world’s highest quality VR/XR hardware to offer a pioneering software service that makes the human eye’s resolution metaverse (as well as virtual and mixed reality workflows ) possible to experience in near real time. This can be on virtually any device, platform or headset with the necessary resolution, not just ours,” Urho Konttori, Varjo’s chief technology officer, said in a statement.

Later this year, users will also be able to use the platform with other compatible applications that incorporate the main 3D engines: Unity and Unreal Engine. To make this an industry standard, Varjo intends to expand device support beyond its own portfolio of headsets to allow any user to join immersive collaborative sessions from a variety of iOS and Windows devices, including phones. , tablets and PCs in the second half of this year. Today, Varjo showed him working with Epic Games’ MetaHuman tool, which allows people to create realistic virtual humans.

“Varjo Reality Cloud allows us to seamlessly work together through virtual and mixed reality. This virtual space allows us to review design models together as if we were physically together in the same space,” said T. Jon Mayer, head of exterior design at Volvo Cars, in a statement. “The technology is a significant step toward democratizing the use of VR and XR for collaboration through ease of use and lower PC hardware requirements.”

Starting today, Varjo Reality Cloud with cloud streaming support for Autodesk VRED is available for up to five concurrent users per company at $1,495 per month.

“Varjo Reality Cloud enables professional users to easily access and benefit from highly scalable NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs to power collaborative photorealistic visualization service,” said Lisa Bell-Cabrera, director of XR business development at Nvidia, in a statement. . “This is the first time Varjo software has run in the cloud on an NVIDIA GPU, and it’s a huge step forward in bringing realistic and scalable VR experiences to professionals across all industries.”