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AmazeVR Quit Chasing the Metaverse - Then Put Pop Stars Two Inches From Their Fans
The Los Angeles startup spent years making every kind of VR content before narrowing to music. Its second act combines custom cameras, game-engine spectacle and an unexpectedly practical distribution hack: the neighborhood cinema.
The Company That Built a Drug-Free Trip You Can Buy on the App Store
A game-industry executive turned a lifelong meditation habit into the first mindfulness app on the Meta Quest. Now TRIPP is betting an AI guide named Kōkua can follow you off the headset and into your pocket.
Sankar Jayaram
Sankar (Jay) Jayaram is the co-founder and CEO of Quintar, a Santa Clara startup building augmented reality experiences for live sports. A former Washington State University engineering professor who founded the school's virtual reality lab in 1994, he co-founded VOKE with his wife Uma Jayaram, sold it to Intel in 2016, and served as CTO of Intel Sports before spinning out Quintar in 2021. Quintar became the official AR developer for the PGA Tour and shipped PGA Tour Vision for Apple Vision Pro.
BILT Incorporated
BILT Incorporated is a Grapevine, Texas software company that replaces paper manuals and static PDFs with 3D, voice- and text-guided Intelligent Instructions for assembling, installing, maintaining, and repairing physical products. Through its mobile app and, increasingly, extended-reality headsets, BILT lets people rotate and zoom animated 3D models step by step, cutting setup time, support calls, and product returns. Brands from Weber and NordicTrack to Siemens, Chamberlain, and Clearfield use BILT to turn the first-use experience into a source of customer loyalty, while government and military customers use it for training and readiness.
Emperia
Emperia is a London-based immersive commerce platform that lets brands and retailers build browser-based, cross-device virtual stores that blend e-commerce accessibility with gaming-style engagement. Founded in 2019 by Olga Dogadkina and Simonas Holcmann, its no-code, SaaS platform has powered virtual retail spaces for Dior, Bloomingdale's, Ralph Lauren, Burberry, Lacoste, Tommy Hilfiger, Hugo Boss and Christie's, reporting sharply higher conversion versus traditional online storefronts.
Quintar, Inc.
Quintar is a Santa Clara-based extended reality company building a device-agnostic spatial XR platform that turns physical venues into digitally enhanced 'Quintar Places.' Its patented Q.reality platform combines a Spatial Visual Positioning System with True Spatial Video to overlay real-time, data-driven content on live sports and other events. Quintar is the official mobile AR and XR developer of the PGA TOUR and built PGA TOUR Vision, the first professional golf application for Apple Vision Pro. Founded in 2021 by former Intel CTO Dr. Sankar (Jay) Jayaram and Dr. Jeff Jonas, the company has raised roughly $11 million, including an $8.2 million Series A in 2024.
Nathan Henderson
Nathan Henderson is co-founder, chairman and CEO of BILT Incorporated, the Grapevine, Texas company that turns manufacturers' CAD files into 3D interactive assembly, installation and maintenance instructions used across roughly 300 brands including Siemens, Weber, Assa Abloy, Chamberlain, Solo Stove and The Home Depot. He spent 17 years at SAP, where BILT began inside the innovation and user-experience incubator, then took it out in 2015. In December 2024 BILT raised a $21M Series B, bringing total funding to about $34M.
eXeX
eXeX (short for eXpanded eXistence) is an Orlando-based medtech company building a Surgery Intelligence platform that captures a surgeon's setup knowledge and delivers it - as playbooks, checklists and holographic guides - to every member of the operating-room team, on every device. Founded in 2022 by neurosurgeon Dr. Robert Masson, the company targets the unglamorous logistics of surgery: room setup, instrument sequencing, staff onboarding and workflow tracking. In 2024 it became the first company to bring Apple Vision Pro into a live operating room as an organizational tool, and it raised a $5.8M seed round to fund a commercial launch across the US and UK.
Javier Vidal
Javier Vidal is the Madrid-born founder and CEO of Moonware, a Los Angeles startup building HALO, the world's first AI-powered Ground Traffic Control platform for airfields. A mechanical engineer trained at Duke who filed his first patent at 15 and became one of Tesla's youngest employees at 19, Vidal cut his teeth on autonomy at Tesla, Uber ATG, and Uber Elevate before setting out to replace the walkie-talkies and whiteboards that still run airport ramps. Moonware has raised roughly $9.3M and deployed HALO with carriers and handlers including British Airways, dnata, Aerocharter, Japan Airlines, and PrimeFlight.
Robert Masson
Robert Masson is a neurosurgeon turned founder who runs eXeX (Expanded Existence), an AI and mixed-reality platform that captures surgical mastery and pipes holographic guidance into the sterile field. With more than three decades of spine surgery and 13,000-plus procedures behind him, he made global headlines for bringing the Apple Vision Pro into the operating room as a touch-free logistics tool. He is also the founder of the Masson Spine Institute and, at 52, raced to a podium at the Rolex 24 at Daytona alongside his eldest son.
Polycam
Polycam is a cross-platform 3D scanning and spatial AI company that turns iPhones, Android phones, and drones into professional reality-capture tools. Used by architects, game studios, forensics teams, and millions of hobbyists, it combines LiDAR, photogrammetry, and Gaussian splatting to make 3D capture as easy as taking a photo.
Elliott Spelman
Elliott Spelman is the co-founder and CEO of Polycam, the world's most-used 3D imaging app with over 10 million downloads and nearly 100,000 paying customers. A Stanford-trained designer and creative technologist, Spelman built Polycam to make 3D capture as accessible as photography - describing it as the Kodak Brownie of spatial computing. After meeting co-founder Chris Heinrich at Ubiquity6, they launched Polycam in 2020, raising an $18M Series A in early 2024 backed by Left Lane Capital, Adobe Ventures, and YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley. Today Polycam serves individuals across more than half the Fortune 500 and is pushing hard into AI-powered floor plans, generative 3D, and enterprise spatial workflows.