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Maria Consuelo Gónima knows who is listening
Before founding Big Smile Co., Maria Consuelo Gónima booked dance floors and helped explain new ways to watch. Her career keeps returning to the people on the other side of the experience.
Cosm puts the crowd back in the picture
An 87-foot LED dome can bring a distant game into the room. Cosm’s bigger bet is that the people sitting beside you are worth leaving home for.
Vaibhav Rai and the distance between a poem and a stadium
A Gurgaon software engineer has credits in immersive Olympic broadcasting and a venture built around words. Vaibhav Rai’s work moves between the machinery of entertainment and the stories people tell each other.
The Ad Network That Looked Beyond the Headset
Immersv built a market for ads people could look around inside. Its cleverest move came when the headset audience proved smaller than the pitch: it followed the viewers back to their phones.
Pitchblend Put the Press Release Inside the Experience
A 20-year-old communications agency has a peculiar answer to the attention problem: make the story, the room and the media plan behave like one object.
HYPERVSN Put a Screen on a Bicycle. Then It Made the Screen Disappear.
The London company turned a rejected bicycle-wheel ad into spinning LED displays used by Nike, Coca-Cola and the Sphere. Its real product is not a hologram so much as a carefully engineered interruption.
MOVRS
MOVRS is a San Francisco- and Los Angeles-based AI and computer vision company building vision models that understand how people move and interact in the real world. It turns ordinary video into high-fidelity 3D human data and biomechanical measurements - no bodysuits, no marker dots, no camera arrays - and applies that data to sports storytelling, athlete training, and machine-learning datasets for industries from healthcare to robotics.
Tesseract
Tesseract (Jio Tesseract) is an MIT Media Lab spin-off and Jio Platforms/Reliance Industries subsidiary building India's mixed reality stack: consumer devices like the JioDive VR headset (Rs 1,299), JioGlass smart glasses, and JioFrames AI glasses, plus enterprise XR platforms for training and remote assistance. Founded in 2015 by Kshitij Marwah, acquired 92.7% by Reliance in May 2019, it calls itself India's biggest XR and AI company, reaching 50+ million consumers and 50+ enterprise clients.
Visiting Media
Visiting Media is a hospitality technology and immersive-content company that helps hotels and resorts sell their physical spaces remotely. Its flagship platform, TrueTour, turns properties into interactive 360 virtual tours, 3D models, and shareable media that sales teams use to run virtual site inspections. The newer SalesHub platform layers digital asset management, distribution, and analytics on top. Used by brands including Hilton, Hyatt, and IHG, the company exists to close the gap between what a property actually looks like and what a buyer can see before they ever arrive.
Bilawal Sidhu
Bilawal Sidhu is a creative technologist, former senior product manager at Google (AR/VR & 3D Maps), host of The TED AI Show podcast, venture scout for Andreessen Horowitz, and angel investor. After shipping landmark products like Google Maps Immersive View and the ARCore Geospatial API to billions of users, he left Google to become a full-time creator, curator, and investor at the intersection of spatial intelligence, generative AI, and immersive media. His newsletter and YouTube reach over 1.6 million followers, and he made headlines in April 2026 when he built WorldView - a real-time OSINT geospatial platform - in three days.