Jani Ylinen

This was one of the first photogrammetry demos I did for Varjo. It worked really nicely and was the most popular popular demo among customers. It looks very realistic when viewed with Varjo headset supporting human eye resolution
Canon 5DSR + 24mm sigma art F1.8 lens
2500 photos each 50MP
Processing done in Reality capture
Final demo implemented with Unity game engine with Varjo SDK

The demo was done with photogrammetry. The actual market is a local supermarket here in Helsinki.

Canon 5DSR + 24mm sigma art F1.8 lens
2500 photos each 50MP
Processing done in Reality capture
Final demo implemented with Unity game engine with Varjo SDK

The demo is operated with hand tracking available in Varjo XR-3. There was also eye tracking features used. When player looks in the shelves the system records how long the player looks at each type of the items. In players hand there is a menu where you can see the currents statistics about what has been the most important group of goods.

Jani Leinonen is famous Finnish visual artist. His works usually use well known brand items in different contexts.

In this demo I remodeled his real life plywood alphabets so they look exactly like each others. In the demo alphabets form sentences and some abstract shapes like a hurricane of brands.

The demo works both in VR and XR. Hand tracking was used for interactions. Player could move, duplicate and remove characters to create own art pieces. There was also virtual camera cut from plywood that you could take pictures of your art from any angle you want and the images appeared in the computers Pictures folder so you could share them in social media.

In this demo player can reveal a virtual kitchen next to the player and then change colors of furniture. Player could also reveal kitchen walls so it feels that player is surrounded by small kitchen room. The view from the window remained to "reality" so if someone stood behind the window it really felt that someone is behind the window

Hand tracking was used to operate hand menu where player could choose different colors for furniture

In this demo player had a human character visible and it was possible to hide different anatomical layers such as skin, muscles, circulatory system, intestine and the skeleton.

Severeal individual intestine could be grabbed and observed freely

Varjo Birds Demo

In varjo birds demo i have explored hand gestures. The flock of birds is controller with three simple gestures. Alignment is left hand pinch, cohesion is right hand pinch and the separation is controlled with the distance of players wrists.

With these three parameters is is possible to control the flocking behaviour.

Extra feature is that if you put hand in front and turn palmside up, a heart appears. This indicates that player is showing friendly thoughts towards the flock. Birds start the get curious about the player but they are still afraid of the player. When player puts both hands in front and both palms point up, the player can balance the heart symbol so it is between hands. When this happens the birds are not anymore afraid of the player and come very close... so close that you can touch them...

If player manages to touch the bird, the bird explodes to small shards....

The birds are also aware about the shape of the room. They are not flying through the horizontal beams but they avoid them. Beams also occlude the birds so when the birds fly behind the beams, they become invisible because they are occluded by the beam just like in real world would happen.

Birds also cast shadows on the horizontal beams, walls and the floor.

When the cherry tree or space rocket are visible, the birds also avoids them

Ateneum Demo

Ateneum Demo was done with collaboration of Finnish National Museum.
This demo was never public but Varjo could show it to customers as a virtual reality showcase demo.

about 2500 photos was taken for the photogrammetry reconstruction.
Each most of the individual paintings were captured in 8k resolution and unscaled image was used as a texture for some paintings. Many people, including museum curators, were amazed by the fact that they can see the art pieces better in virtual reality than in real life.

Demo had a whale as an easter egg. Real life animated whale just barely fitted inside the room.