This week, enterprise VR/MR hardware vendors and solutions provider Varjo are officially introducing support for Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform. This move aims to make the leading headset range an optimised tool for engineering and design workflows.
Miika Jokinen, the Head of Software Partnerships at Varjo, added:
Our partnership with Dassault Systèmes is a testament of our commitment to providing the most advanced mixed reality tools for our enterprise users. Thanks to the official Varjo XR-4 Series support on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, engineers and designers can push the boundaries of what’s possible, creating more detailed, accurate, and immersive designs than ever before
The Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform brings a trove of new features to the Varjo XR-4 product portfolio. Notably, users can now view highly detailed CAD data in an MR work environment, boosted by Varjo’s leading tech and specs.
Moreover, Varjo’s product enables Dassault Systèmes to integrate real-time ray tracing into the service for increased CAD data detail in an effort to provide unmatched quality. This, in turn, boosts the usability of professional 3D data workflows, as the graphic capabilities can reflect highly accurate digital versions of real-world counterparts.
Moreover, the Dassault Systèmes integrations include a series of integrated software services such as CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, and 3DEXCITE. Varjo notes how this integration gives its users a range of tools to enhance 3D design and engineering:
Thanks to the Varjo headset range’s MR integration, 3DEXPERIENCE platform users can also place digital objects—CAD/digital twins—within a real-world work environment as passthrough visualisations for enhanced collaboration and multi-tasking workflows.
Varjo has recently optimized its 3D design and introduced a new product called Teleport, which allows iOS users to create digital twins of real-world locations. This product is currently in an early access period, with more distribution details to come. Teleport is an Apple-exclusive smartphone application that makes it easy to capture spaces for sharing and exploration using an XR headset. Users can move around freely within the captured VR environment.
By launching as an iOS service, Varjo allows users to create digital twins of large-scale targets without the need for expensive additional equipment. The Teleport solution can accurately recreate the target locations’ lighting, shading, textures, details, and reflections.
Varjo Opens Spatial Computing to “More Enterprise Roles than Ever Before”
At NVIDIA GTC 2024, Ben Cathcart, Head of Product Marketing at Varjo, spoke to XR Today about the firm’s ambition to drive accessibility to enterprise XR services. He stated that spatial computing is “something that can be used by all departments that are not necessarily so technical-minded.”
Moreover, Cathcart explained:
We are making spatial computing open to more enterprise roles than ever before. As people start to realise the productivity gains you can get using XR technology, sustainability gains, and cost savings, all these benefits are combined into one to make a path for XR to expand into the enterprise.
Cathcart explains that interactive development has various benefits, similar to its recent partnership with Dassault Systèmes. One use case that can benefit from interactive development is automotive design reviews. If a review team uses immersive hardware such as the Varjo XR headset, it provides a fantastic experience to put it on and change something in real time.
