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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.