Road to VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Founded by Tomas Ahlström and Alexander Milton in 2020, the team has worked to expand the game industry in the region of Östergötland in eastern Sweden. Zero Index is a game studio and consulting firm focused on B2B services within both the game and IT industry.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Puzzling Places is set to release on PSVR with five main puzzle packs that span historical sites (and interesting gubbins) in Sweden, Armenia, France, the United States, and Japan.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Created by Sweden-based indie Really Interactive , Virtuoso is the first third-party title to be published by Fast Travel Games, the VR veteran behind Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife (2021) and Apex Construct (2018). .

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In 2023, Stockholm, Sweden-based gaming group Aonic acquired nDreams for $110 million. At the time, the studio said it employed 250 people, meaning the layoff could affect up to 40 people.

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Next Reality AR

APRIL 24, 2019

Along with its AR development partner, Sweden-based Resolution Games, the publisher is following up Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot for the Magic Leap One with a return to its mobile roots in Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs, which arrives on the App Store for ARKit-compatible iPhones and iPads on April 29.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Based in Gothenburg, Sweden, MoonHood aims to “immerse players in strange worlds handcrafted in actual clay, cardboard and what have you,” studio says on its new website. MoonHood is creating a VR-supported game that aims to replicate the look and feel of claymation.

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Road to VR

MAY 10, 2021

As the name would suggest, its Neo 3 Pro Eye includes sensors for eye tracking; like in Neo 2 Eye, the eye tracking hardware is being provided by Tobii, the Sweden-based company known for integrating its tech into Vive Pro Eye, HP VR Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition , and more. Image courtesy Pico Interactive. “The headsets have a single 5.5

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Fast Travel Games , the Sweden-based VR developer behind Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife (2021) and Apex Construct (2018) , today announced it’s opening a publishing arm which is aimed at helping smaller teams to break into the VR games market.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In the midst of a record cold snap where Texas’ grid has failed to meet demand, misinformation is running rampant. Among the most pernicious memes propagating online are that Texas’ wind turbines have frozen and that that has led to the blackout. Read more.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2017

Christian von Koenigsegg, founder of Swedish high-performance car manufacturer Koenigsegg, was speaking live from a VR headset in Sweden, and gave a virtual tour of his Regera hypercar, along with a few of his employees. You can see a video of Project Holodeck in action heading this article.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria and Belgium; plans for launch in South Korea, China, Taiwan and Japan are on the horizon. The live concert will be streaming via the free MelodyVR app tomorrow 12pm pst.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2018

Come June 26th, residents of the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, and Switzerland will be able to walk into a brick-and-mortar shop and snag one off the shelves.

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Road to VR

MAY 6, 2024

Now, Volvo says it also uses Varjo’s ‘Reality’ cloud streaming ability to share design mock-ups across the US, China, and the company’s Sweden-based head office. And why Varjo?

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VRScout

JANUARY 31, 2018

ProjectDR was first introduced last November at the Virtual Reality Software and Technology Symposium in Gothenburg, Sweden. For more information you can head over to the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Science page. The post This AR X-Ray Could Revolutionize Modern Medicine appeared first on VRScout.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Like with its predecessor Pico 4, which released in 2022, supported regions across Europe include Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, UK, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Sweden-based firm has partnered with VR headset makers over the years and can be found in a number of devices, such as HTC Vive Pro Eye, HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition, Pico Neo 2 Eye, Pico Neo 3 Pro Eye, and a number of Qualcomm VRDK reference designs. That essentially lets PSVR 2 save precious compute power for more and better things.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

TPCast pre-orders are available in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and UK. Many distributors are quoting late October shipping dates.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot, was developed by Finnish game developer, Rovio Entertainment , in collaboration with Resolution Games , a Sweden-based game developer focused on VR and AR entertainment. The title is expected to launch on Magic Leap One Creator Edition headsets this fall. Image Credit: Rovio Entertainment.

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VRScout

MARCH 26, 2022

During a demo, I was able to drive an Einride Pod vehicle that was located in Sweden while I was in Austin, TX by moving a small lever to make the pod move forward or stop. XR technology plays a big role in providing the operator with information and data, while LIDAR and AI keep the vehicle on the road. All in real time with zero latency.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Sweden-based game company Starbreeze, which currently owns a 33 percent interest in StarVR, says in a recent announcement that stakeholders will meet next month “to decide whether StarVR Corporation should cease to be a public company.” ” Photo by Road to VR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The research is being presented at this week’s VRST 2017 , the 23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology held in Gothenburg, Sweden. Further information and the full paper is available on Fujinawa’s website.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 25, 2022

The Uppsala, Sweden-based firm owns the “world’s largest” photogrammetry asset library and offers an XR content creation suite with its Megascans, Bridge, and Mixer toolkits. Additionally, Quixel assists Epic Games’ ongoing development of Reality Scan.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The original population of wolves living in Norway and Sweden were wiped out 50 years ago, a report commissioned by the Norwegian parliament has concluded. Read more.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

To create Ghost Giant, Zoink has teamed up with Sweden-based writer Sara Bergmark Elfgren , whose work ranges from novels to graphic novels to screenplays. While they often involve heavy lifting, your most important role is less physical. It’s that of being a supporting friend for a child in need of some guidance. Image courtesy Zoink.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Dirac Research , the Sweden-based company specializing in digital sound optimization solutions, today announced they’re showing off the latest version of its Dirac 3D Audio at Mobile World Congress (MWC) next week.

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Next Reality AR

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Don't Miss: I Met Magic Leap's AI Assistant Mica & Saw the Future of Augmented Reality Compared to some of the other Magic Leap One experiences, this one, developed by Stockholm, Sweden-based Warpin Media, is fairly minimalist. But it nevertheless.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 13, 2017

This promising new puzzle game from Sweden-based developer Tarsier Studios was announced just ahead of E3 2016 last June, and we’ve kept an eye on it ever since. Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) looks set to kick things up a notch next month, as anticipated new games finally arrive for the platform. One such title is Statik.

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2018

Eye tracking hardware and algorithms developed by Sweden-based firm Tobii and Qualcomm’s own ‘Adreno Foveation’ foveated rendering solution are also a part of the 845 headset reference design, which is said to allow applications to render more demanding applications while reducing GPU load.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2020

Tobii, the Sweden-based eye-tracking firm, says its integrated eye-tracking in the Neo 2 Eye allows for both improved graphics and longer battery life thanks to its dynamic foveated rendering, which is said to increase framerates “by up to 66% and reduces shading loads by up to 72%.” Image courtesy Pico Interactive.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Take on the legendary hillclimb of Pikes Peak, the snowy thrills of Sweden, and the epic scenery of Finland. . . • SIX MASSIVE RALLIES WITH OVER 70 STAGES – Head to the muddy paths of Wales, the dusty trails of Greece and the icy tarmac of Monte Carlo.

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2016

One fifth of children in Sweden are unable to swim, according to a new initiative launched by the Swedish Swimming Federation, a significant number considering that the country’s beautiful landscape is littered with lakes and bordered by the Baltic sea.

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GizModo VR

JULY 12, 2021

The trade-off is they look nowhere near as vibrant as display technologies like LCD and OLED, but new research out of Sweden could soon change that with an innovative type of reflective screen. Electronic paper, from companies like E Ink, can display color images now while minimizing power usage. Read more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 5, 2017

Sweden (19) jumped ahead of Germany (15) in this round. The VR industry continues to grow, and next to the United Kingdom and France, Sweden has now caught up in terms of the number of high-performing startups across the VR industry,” said Leen Segers, cofounder and CEO of LucidWeb. The study identified 46 VR companies in the U.K.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 2, 2023

Director Sofia Adrian Jupither leads the Turandot opera, which the FNOB and the Malmö Opera in Sweden helped to co-produce. The esteemed European art institution premiered its Opera in person on January 27 2022, while hosting Turandot via a varjo-powered immersive environment.

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Ryan Schultz

MARCH 21, 2023

Filippa and Lina are two Master’s students in the International Marketing and Brand Management program at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. They are researching how social VR users express identity in virtual environments, and they wish to conduct interviews.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 6, 2020

A man’s encounter with covid-19 likely led to him experiencing life-threatening catatonia that erased days of his memory, according to doctors in Sweden. Though the man was able to recover without serious brain damage thanks to prompt treatment, the doctors warn that the man’s case may highlight a never-before-seen… Read more.

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GizModo VR

MAY 20, 2021

Spotify is partnering with Storytel, a Sweden-based audiobook streaming service, to integrate its library with Spotify’s platform later this year, the companies announced Thursday. Read more.

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