
Astronaut Training Enters a New Dimension with PaleBlue and ESA
In this blog, we explore PaleBlue’s transformative collaboration with the European Space Agency where VR/XR is redefining how astronauts prepare for space exploration.
By truly blending digital and physical worlds into one, Varjo is transforming simulation across industries – saving money, time, resources and even lives along the way.
Zero gravity experiments in collaboration with PaleBlue. Image copyright: NoveSpace.
Varjo was founded in 2016 by experienced product leaders and innovators with a background in developing high-end technology and innovations at Nokia, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. Varjo founders had a vision of seamlessly merging the virtual and real worlds with human-eye resolution virtual and mixed reality.
Today, Varjo is a supergroup made up of 200+ professionals with the passion, skills and vision to do things most people think are impossible. We focus on delivering the world’s most advanced VR/XR technology to demanding industries such as aerospace, defense, maritime, engineering, research, and more.
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Zero gravity experiments in collaboration with PaleBlue. Image copyright: NoveSpace.
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Varjo pioneered the world’s highest resolution XR/VR to meet challenges no one else can solve. By putting this once-in-a-generation technology onto the heads of everyone from fighter pilots and military personnel to industrial designers and medical teams, it’s transforming simulation and training and profoundly impacting human performance.
Made for people, teams and nations doing high-stakes work, Varjo offers the highest-fidelity XR/VR and the ability to easily recreate photorealistic real-world digital twins in an end-to-end system that’s made to integrate into your tech stack.
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The world needs new and transformational ways to meet new and old challenges. And just as our engineering minds looked at the headsets that came before us and said: “We know there’s a better way”, our whole team looked at industries and workflows where we knew our technology, software integration and end-to-end customer support would be a game-changer, solving problems that in some cases weren’t considered solvable. By blending digital and physical worlds seamlessly, we are helping pioneering people, teams and nations to transform how industries work.
The use cases may be different, but the core need for all users is ultimately the same: to practice their craft, prepare for threats, push boundaries, make mistakes and make history in an environment that’s safe.
See why Varjo is making headlines, get high resolution images taken through the Varjo headset, read our press releases, request an interview and more. It’s all here.
Training and Simulation / September 17, 2025
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Training and Simulation / July 30, 2025
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