AR Investment
CREAL Picks up $7.4 Million in Funding for Its Light-field Tech
When we caught up with CREAL and its light-field tech at CES 2020 this week, the founders also filled us in on the latest...
Backed by $4.4M in Funding, Devs Behind ‘Job Simulator’ & ‘Fantastic Contraption’ Announce New...
Developers behind critically acclaimed VR games Job Simulator (2016) and Fantastic Contraption (2016) today announced they're founding a new studio dubbed Absurd Joy. To give them a big...
Applications for Vive X, HTC’s AR/VR Startup Accelerator, Close September 30th
The application deadline for HTC's VR startup accelerator program is coming up quickly on September 30th. Now in its fifth batch of investments, the...
Scope AR Secures $9.7M Series A to Develop AR Training & Remote Assistance Tools
Scope AR, the enterprise-focused AR studio, today announced it has successfully closed a $9.7 million Series A funding round to further develop it cross-platform...
Scape Raises $8M for Visual Positioning System Which Could be a Key Component of...
Scape Technologies announced last week that it has raised an $8 million seed investment for a visual positioning system that it says can provide...
‘Pokémon GO’ Studio Niantic Raises $190M Series C Financing
Niantic, the company behind the hit location-based mobile game Pokémon GO, have closed a $190.6 million Series C financing round, bringing the company's overall funding...
WaveOptics Raises $26 Million to Expand AR Optics Supply Chain
WaveOptics, a manufacturer of diffractive waveguide optics for AR displays, today announced it has raised a $25 million Series C investment which will be...
China’s Jiangxi Province Promises to Invest $460 Million in AR/VR
Aiming to become a hub for AR and VR development, the government of China's Jiangxi province says it plans to raise funds totalling $460...
Spatial Raises $8 Million Seed Investment for AR/VR Collaboration Platform
After two years in stealth, Spatial today announced an $8 million seed investment to build out its AR/VR collaboration platform.
Spatial is building an immersive...
Jaunt Acquires Personify’s Volumetric Capture Tech & Talent to Build Out XR Platform
Jaunt was once a cinematic VR company which produced high-quality 360 video, and to boot even a professional-grade 360 camera dubbed NEO. Taking a...
Meta Forced to Furlough After Chinese Lead Backs Out of New Investment
Meta, makers of an AR headset dev kit, was close to raising a new round of funding before a Chinese lead investor backed out,...
Avegant Raises $12M Financing to Further Develop AR Display Tech
Avegant, the AR display company known for its Glyph head-mounted display, announced that the company has successfully closed a $12M Series AA financing, which...
Ubiquity6 Raises $27M Series B, Debuts Its First Public Multiuser AR Experience at SFMOMA
Ubiquity6, the AR startup that came out of stealth earlier this year, announced the successful completion of a $27 million Series B finance round....
Niantic Acquires Seismic to Help Create AR Games & Upcoming AR Platform
Seismic Games, the studio behind Google Daydream's Blade Runner: Revelations (2018), has been acquired by Niantic, the force behind popular location-based games Pokémon GO, Ingress, and the upcoming...
Beyeonics Raises $11.5M to Further Develop AR/VR Surgical Visualization Platform
Elbit Systems, an Israel-based defense company, recently announced that its medical technologies subsidiary Beyeonics Surgical successfully concluded its first funding round of $11.5 million,...
