Summary
- Top 10 VR startups 2017
- The InvisiVision
- Hypercell
- ALT VR
- Baobab Studios
- WEVR
- RENOVATION
- Spaceout.VR
- Respected
- MindMaze
- VR lucid
Top 10 VR startups 2017
The InvisiVision
Founders: Ryan Brooks and Robert Bruski, 2014
Location: Kitchener, Canada
Funds raised: $ 20 Canadian
The InvisiVision startup a patents a technology allowing two simultaneous projections to be viewed on a single screen in 3D using a pair of wireless glasses. According to the founder of the company, this technology offers more immersion, at a lower cost than the VR headsets and other devices currently available.
Hypercell
Fondateurs: Live Turgay, 2016
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Funds raised: $ 100,000
Hypercell wishes to market a package to open a VR amusement park. This package brings together the hardware, software and content necessary to deploy an amusement park based on virtual reality. To use this package, a space of between 25 square meters and 450 square meters is enough to install the set, and accommodate up to 8 players simultaneously.
ALT VR
Founders: Eric Romo, Gavan Wilhite, David Gudmundson, 2013
Localisation : Redwood City, California
Funds raised: $ 10 in Series A and $ 300 in Seed
ALT VR is a very complete virtual reality communication platform, allowing users to meet for pleasure or for work. The objective of this startup is to give a new scope to communication and online interactions.
De many users, from 150 different countries, already frequent this platform on a daily basis on Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. Together, they can share videos, play games, or complete professional tasks with their colleagues. Improvements are constantly being deployed and ALT VR is well on its way to starting its revolution.
Baobab Studios
Founders: Maureen Fan, Larry Cutler, 2015
Localisation : Redwood City, California
Funds raised: $ 31
Baobab is a startup dedicated to virtual reality animation. She explores new forms of storytelling based on virtual reality technologies. With the short films and, the studio has already demonstrated its know-how and its potential to revolutionize the film industry by offering VR experiences for the general public that are both funny, moving and immersive.. Baobab is currently one of the leading VR startups, and one of the most recognized virtual reality production studios in the film industry.
WEVR
Founders: Neville Spiteri, Anthony Batt, Scott Yara, 2010
Localisation : Venice, California
Funds raised: $ 38
WEVR produces quality VR content, and aggregates all kinds of multimedia content in virtual reality on its open platform Transport. It allows producers of VR experiences to create, present and distribute their projects.
RENOVATION
Founders: Naim Busek, Nathan Schuett, Asa Hammond 2013
Location: San Carlos, California
Funds raised: $ 9
Thanks to virtual reality, PRENAV offers to plan aerial drone flights by first performing them in VR. This technology allows anyone to fly a professional drone without having a license, even without in-depth knowledge. A revolutionary combination of two recent technologies.
Spaceout.VR
Fondateurs: Dennis Adamo, V. Owen Bush, Ignacio Platas, Agustin Abreu, 2015
Location: New York
Funds raised: $ 250
The mobile VR app Spaceout.VR allows you to experience your favorite songs in a new way, through a virtual environment shaped by sound. It is also possible to upload photos from Facebook, and to use a geolocation interface connected to Google Street View. With 80 users at present, Spaceout.VR intends to offer a complete virtual reality application before the end of the first semester.
Respected
Founders: Phil Johnston, Brian Kauke, 2014
Location: Las Vegas
Funds raised: $ 1
Cette startup has developed prototypes of robots equipped with 360-degree cameras, aiming to create virtual copies of real environments. A very useful invention, especially for the real estate, hotel, retail or construction sector.
MindMaze
Founders: Ted Tadi, 2012
Location: Ecublens, Vaud
Funds raised: $ 108,5 million
Thanks to virtual reality, neuroscience, brain imaging and computer graphics, MindMaze aims to make interactions between humans and machines more intuitive. The startup has created a VR headset equipped with motion sensors capable of transcribing the exact position of the user to transcribe their movements into virtual reality.
- products developed by this startup are intended primarily for the medical sector, in particular to stimulate neurological recovery. MindMaze, for example, wants to use virtual reality to help people who are victims of heart attacks. In a few years, the firm has managed to climb into the top 10 Swiss startups in the health sector.
VR lucid
Founders: Adam Rowell, Han Jin, 2014
Location: Santa Clara, California
Funds raised: $ 2,4 million
Le Lucid is a device comprising two stereoscopic cameras allowing to film the world as the human being perceives it in all its complexity, with a 180 ° field of vision. The videos can then be easily shared on any mobile device.
Now that this list is established, it only remains to wait until the end of 2017 to verify if these VR startups are really taking off, and leading the evolution of the virtual reality industry.. It's hard to predict which of these VR startups will be able to meet both consumer demand and investor demands. It's likely that ALT VR is the real market leader. This startup responds to a need for communication, essential to allow immersion in virtual reality.
