Lenovo Becomes Reseller of Varjo Headsets to Deliver Complete Solution for Virtual and Mixed Reality Applications

By Tiera Oliver

Associate Editor

Embedded Computing Design

October 26, 2020

News

Lenovo Becomes Reseller of Varjo Headsets to Deliver Complete Solution for Virtual and Mixed Reality Applications

Expanded offering allows customers to purchase certified workstations with industrial-grade VR/XR devices.

Lenovo announced it has become a reseller of Varjo’s human-eye resolution VR and XR headsets. This extends the existing collaboration between the two manufacturers and allows customers to access a complete solution for their professional virtual and mixed reality workflows. Through the reseller agreement, users can purchase “Certified for Varjo” workstations along with any device available in Varjo’s portfolio via Lenovo’s distribution channels.

Per the company, the agreement not only offers ideal enterprise adoption of virtual and mixed reality, but further accelerates an organization’s ability to bring technology into the workplace. The Lenovo and Varjo combined solutions are ideal for use cases that demand high visual fidelity and require suitable processing performance. This spans across a variety of industries focused on design visualization, engineering, advanced training and simulation, medical imaging, and demanding scientific research.

The two companies continue to collaborate and test workstation and headset pairings to deliver a solution that removes the guesswork for enterprise users.

Also, per the company, the following professional desktop and mobile workstations have been certified to work with Varjo’s various headsets and are capable of delivering the processing and compute power needed to achieve the next-generation of spatial computing:

  • Optimized to support the VR-2, VR-2 Pro and XR-1 devices:
  • ThinkStation P520
  • ThinkStation P720
  • ThinkStation P920
  • Optimized to support the VR-2 and VR-2 Pro devices:
  • ThinkPad P53
  • ThinkPad P73
  • ThinkPad P15
  • ThinkPad P17

Customers can purchase certified Lenovo workstations and Varjo headsets immediately by contacting a local Lenovo representative or by clicking on the “Contact Us” icon on Lenovo.com.

For more information, visit https://www.lenovo.com

Tiera Oliver, Associate Editor for Embedded Computing Design, is responsible for web content edits, product news, and constructing stories. She also assists with newsletter updates as well as contributing and editing content for ECD podcasts and the ECD YouTube channel. Before working at ECD, Tiera graduated from Northern Arizona University where she received her B.S. in journalism and political science and worked as a news reporter for the university’s student led newspaper, The Lumberjack.

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