Varjo Launches Teleport Service for Realistic PCVR Experience

TapTechNews June 19th, Finnish company Varjo has launched a brand new service named Teleport, which allows users to easily scan real-world scenes using an iPhone and transform them into realistic PCVR experiences. This new technology benefits from the emerging neural network rendering technology called Gaussian Splatting, which achieves 3D space drawing by representing scenes as a series of overlapping 3D Gaussian functions.

Currently, the scanned data generated by Teleport can only be viewed through VR headsets on the PC side (supporting all VR headset devices compatible with the PC), but Varjo indicates that it will also support standalone VR headsets in the future. The scanning process only requires the user to hold the iPhone and walk in the scene for about 10 minutes, and the collected data will then be uploaded to the Amazon cloud server for background processing, which usually takes several hours. Currently, Varjo is offering this service free of charge to pre-registered users and will operate commercially in the future.

Varjo says that Teleport can transform real-world scenes such as a single room or even an entire square into digital twins with realistic light and shadow, textures, details, and reflection effects. TapTechNews has noted that Teleport currently only supports scanning with iPhone Pro or iPad Pro models, but will soon support standard iPhones and iPads, and plans to expand to the Android platform. The volume of the generated scanned data is small, usually in units of megabytes (MB), and can be conveniently viewed in the Varjo Teleport PCVR application or exported for use in engines such as Unity and Unreal.

The origin of the name Teleport also implies one of its core functions, that is, multi-person collaboration. Users can regard the scanned scene as a virtual portal and walk through it with others on the other side of the earth for remote collaboration.