{"id":73082,"date":"2025-07-18T16:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/73082\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:24:12","slug":"varjo-is-pulling-support-for-all-of-its-older-xr-headsets-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/73082\/","title":{"rendered":"Varjo is Pulling Support for All of Its Older XR Headsets Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Varjo announced that starting next year, it\u2019s no longer supporting its fleet of third generation XR headsets, which includes XR-3, VR-3, and Varjo Aero.<\/p>\n

As first spotted by XT Today<\/a>, Varjo says it\u2019s now \u201cfocusing our manufacturing efforts on the XR-4 Series headsets,\u201d which released in late 2023.<\/p>\n

The Finland-based company notes in a support FAQ<\/a>\u00a0that its companion software, Varjo Base, will receive software updates and bug fixes until the January 1st, 2026 cutoff date.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Image courtesy Varjo<\/p>\n

After its final update, the company says that owners of XR-3, VR-3, and Aero can still use older versions of the software, but this also includes the end of customer support, technical and developer assistance for those devices.<\/p>\n

Released in 2021, Varjo\u2019s third-gen headsets marked the company\u2019s departure from solely focusing on enterprise headsets. While both its\u00a0XR-3 and\u00a0VR-3 were squarely targeted at businesses with cash to spare\u2014priced at $5,495 and\u00a0$3,195 respectively\u2014which included an obligatory annual subscription fee, Aero was the company\u2019s first to actively appeal to prosumers.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Varjo Aero | image courtesy Varjo<\/p>\n

Released in late 2021, Aero was priced at $2,000, which included subscription-free compatibility with SteamVR via Varjo Base (i.e. you can\u2019t just plug it in like Valve Index, Bigscreen Beyond 2, etc).<\/p>\n

Although Aero was by far one of the most expensive prosumer PC VR headsets on offer at the time, it wasn\u2019t for naught. In our deep dive review of Aero<\/a>, Road to VR\u2019s\u00a0Ben Lang praised the headset\u2019s \u201cstunning clarity,\u201d noting it was poised to be \u201ca dream headset for VR simmers who aren\u2019t afraid to trade cash for immersion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notably, Varjo has been sold out of all third-gen headsets for at least over a year now, with the company additionally confirming production has been discontinued for these devices.<\/p>\n

This leaves the Varjo\u2019s main focus on its XR-4 Series headsets, which were released in late 2023, marking a return to its enterprise-only roots. Its fourth-gen series includes the standard XR\u20114 ($5,990), XR\u20114 Focal Edition ($9,990), and its military-compliant XR\u20114 Secure Edition, which comes in three variants<\/a> (~$18,00 \u2013 $32,000).<\/p>\n

While previously launched without\u00a0subscription-based access to Varjo Base, the company announced in\u00a0March that some previously free software features would be paywalled<\/a>\u00a0behind a \u2018Varjo Base Pro\u2019 license, which includes\u00a0more advanced mixed reality capabilities, expanded tracking support, programmatic controls, and multi-app functionality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Varjo announced that starting next year, it\u2019s no longer supporting its fleet of third generation XR headsets, which…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[158,67,132,68,729,730],"class_list":{"0":"post-73082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-virtual-reality","13":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114875168963923234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}