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Microsoft to Expand Azure Kinect’s Computer Vision Tech to Commercial Market

Road to VR

The technology behind Microsoft’s enterprise-focused computer vision camera, the Azure Kinect developer kit , will soon find its way into commercial products. Microsoft is collaborating with two companies, Analog Devices and SICK AG , to create commercial devices using Azure Kinect’s 3D Time of Flight (ToF) depth technology.

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Cooperation of Deep Tech SMEs and Global Giants Drive Opportunities in the Metaverse

ARPost

In Finland, the opportunities for cooperation between deep tech SMEs and large corporations have been proactively created by both the XR companies themselves and by private and public accelerators. Finland at the Forefront of the Metaverse. LaValle, who was also an early founder and head scientist of Oculus VR.

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Dispelix and Avegant Partner to Enable Next-Gen AR Glasses

ARPost

Dispelix , a waveguide designer and manufacturer headquartered in Finland, unlocks great possibilities for innovative AR product designs with its patented DPX waveguides. These waveguides have been instrumental in bringing Magic Leap, Microsoft HoloLens, and other AR devices to the consumer market. Dispelix Waveguide Technology.

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Varjo Promises Human-Eye Resolutions For VR This Year

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Varjo is a startup of 19 employees that is only 10 months old based in Helsinki, Finland. The talent comes from the likes of Microsoft and Nokia. A video of a prototype back in Finland showed how this tech can work with AR. Whatever was centered in my view was astonishingly detailed.

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Varjo, an early mover in building XR headsets and software for enterprises, taps $40M

TechCrunch VR

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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Taser manufacturer Axon bolsters VR efforts

VRWorld

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 new team will be led by industry expert Juha Alakarhu, who has led camera technology teams at Nokia and Microsoft.

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NVIDIA, Siemens Demo Freyr Virtual Plant at Hannover Messe 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Managers can also launch Microsoft Teams meetings at manufacturing cells, where attendees can virtually teleport to locations across the digital twin. The executive from the Espoo, Finland-based firm stated the industrial metaverse would remain the driving force behind the sector’s profitability.

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