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Khronos Group Welcomes BADBYTE as Associate Member

BADVISOR is a product of BADBYTE Sagl, an internationally active, owner-managed platform provider. The company was founded 2019 by an experienced team with a long history and experience in Global eCommerce, CRM, digital Marketing and IT technology and offers a wide range of consulting services with a focus on 3D brand experience and brand building. BADBYTE is based in Lugano, Switzerland, and runs operations in Milan, Munich, Barcelona and Surat in India.

BADVISOR – the first All-in-One 3D-Platform for any Business. Redefining online customer engagement on the web by making next generation interactive web 3D technologies easy and accessible to any brand. The All-in-One Web 3D Platform enables brands, creators, designers and agencies to create, manage and publish 3D experiences. Interactive product configurators, immersive product presentations and complex animations or branded virtual environments over the web, VR and Augmented Reality can be set up across all digital channels in a fraction of time and with unprecedented ease. This outstanding digital solution is cloud-based, without any programming effort and with the possibility of extensive individualization and personalization.

Khronos Group Welcomes DoubleMe as Associate Member

DoubleMe Inc. is an eXtended reality tech startup and creator of metaverse social platform, TwinWorld (http://twin.world). Our company recently secured a US$25 million Series A funding for Holoport and HoloScene, our cutting-edge real-time personal volumetric capture technology, serving as a bedrock for TwinWorld, whose beta version was released in 2020. Our mission is to “Create a universe that transcends reality and virtuality, and communicates regardless of gender, age, religion, race, and physical ability.” DoubleMe wants to establish an inclusive community with TwinWorld, shattering barriers between the real and virtual worlds. The holistic XR experience will alter your lifestyle, entertainment consumption, and more. The limit? As far as your wildest imaginations. Join us today to create the future’s playground on TwinWorld!

Khronos Group Welcomes Robert Bosch GmbH as Contributor Member

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. As a leading IoT provider, Bosch offers innovative solutions for smart homes, Industry 4.0, and connected mobility. Bosch is pursuing a vision of mobility that is sustainable, safe, and exciting. It uses its expertise in sensor technology, software, and services, as well as its own IoT cloud, to offer its customers connected, cross-domain solutions from a single source. The Bosch Group’s strategic objective is to facilitate connected living with products and solutions that either contain artificial intelligence (AI) or have been developed or manufactured with its help. Bosch improves quality of life worldwide with products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm. In short, Bosch creates technology that is “Invented for life.”

Khronos Group Welcomes Shanghai YVR Technology as Contributor Member

The Play For Dream Group has an in-depth business layout in diversified fields, with a commitment to creating an eSports-oriented entertainment ecosystem. YVR, founded in May 2020, has been developing its own VR products, focusing on socializing and entertainment. The mission of YVR is to let more people play for their dreams.

Khronos Group Welcomes Bolt Graphics as Associate Member

Bring your biggest ideas to life with the Bolt Graphics Ray Tracing solution. We are developing, from the ground up, a flexible, scalable ray tracing engine that scales across many platforms to meet varying use cases. Every function of the ray tracing pipeline is deconstructed, analyzed, and optimized for customer use cases, enabling us to achieve the best possible performance.

Khronos Group Welcomes KittyCAD as Associate Member

KittyCAD is an infrastructure company, bringing together everything required to build tools for hardware designers. Our vision is to make these tools as programmable as the rest of the internet. We take a technology-first approach to hardware design, so that you can use KittyCAD's APIs to build tools, automation, websites, and apps.

Khronos Group Welcomes Inseye as Associate Member

Inseye is a new camera-free eye tracking technology. Inseye delivers outstanding performance at the market’s lowest BOM by combining simple hardware with powerful software. Flexible, lightweight, industrial design allows hardware integration with new modern AR, VR, and MR devices. Additionally, developers can benefit from unique eye movement dynamics data. We encourage companies and researchers exploring new applications of XR technology and eye-tracking to collaborate with us. Create new use cases using the world's only 1000Hz eye tracker available in the XR environment.

Khronos Group Welcomes Charter Communications as Contributor Member

Charter Communications, Inc. is a leading broadband connectivity company and cable operator serving more than 32 million customers in 41 states through its Spectrum brand. Over an advanced communications network, the company offers a full range of state-of-the-art residential and business services including Spectrum Internet®, TV, Mobile and Voice.

Tencent Joins Khronos Board of Directors

Khronos is thrilled to welcome Tencent, one of the largest internet, gaming, and mobile hardware and software companies in the world, to the Khronos Board of Directors, joining promoter members AMD, Apple, Arm, Epic Games, Google, Huawei, IKEA, Imagination Technologies, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony, Valve and Verisilicon. Tencent aims to play a significant role in the development and adoption of Khronos open standards, and to make a substantial local impact through growing the use of those standards by the Chinese industry. Tencent is a world-leading internet and technology company that develops innovative products and services to improve the quality of life of people around the world. Founded in 1998 with its headquarters in Shenzhen, China, Tencent's guiding principle is to use technology for good. As one of the world’s largest internet, gaming and mobile hardware and software companies, with over a billion users in China, Tencent’s contributions to Khronos Group’s evolving open standards for 3D graphics, XR, gaming, metaverse, and more will be invaluable.

Calle Lejdfors, R&D Director of Tencent Games, will serve on the Khronos Board of Directors. Calle has been doing professional computer graphics since the late 90's. He started with scientific visualization on SGI machines, worked his way through a PhD, and then left academia for the games industry. There he has worked for the last 15 years or so doing everything from hands-on programming, team lead, to technical direction and strategy. He currently works at Tencent leading the European R&D efforts in the game and XR space. Calle is based out of Sweden.

Khronos welcomes Tencent as a key player and thought leader in the XR and gaming space and looks forward to seeing the company engage with its membership.

Khronos Group Welcomes Mercedes-Benz Research and Development NA as Contributor Member

At Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, we develop and certify cars for the U.S. and the world in six locations. Our work ranges from EV battery research to hybrid powertrain calibration and certification, from telematics to autonomous driving software, and from advanced exterior design to UX. It’s not just about cars, it’s also about creating the latest and greatest software, cutting-edge technology, and groundbreaking innovation.

Khronos Group Welcomes Beijing 7invensun Science & Technology Co. as Contributor Member

7invensun is the first technology company in China with independent proprietary and intellectual property rights. It has been focusing on eye tracking technology, eye movement control, researching and innovation of vision capture and artificial intelligence as well as committing to upgrading and optimizing the interaction between devices and end-users. Let the world understand all secrets in your eyes. We manage to widely apply the advanced eye tracking technology to smartphones, VR, user studies, medical care, automobiles, aviation etc. So humans can interact with devices in a more natural way.

Khronos Group Welcomes Innosilicon Microelectronics as Contributor Member

Innosilicon is a world class one-stop shop of high-speed mixed signal IPs and ASIC custom solutions for a full range of processes from 130nm to 5nm across the world’s top foundries. So far, Innosilicon is the sole technology partner in China who has access to the 5nm process library provided by Samsung and TSMC combined with the design-to-tapeout capability. Backed by its 16 years of technical expertise in developing cutting-edge IPs and ASIC products, Innosilicon has assisted our valued partners, including Amazon, AMD, Cypress, Google, Microchip, Micron, Microsoft, Synaptics, and OnSemi to name but a few, in achieving the success of billions of chips in mass-production, being at the forefront for 10 consecutive years.

Khronos Group Welcomes Vastai Technologies as Contributor Member

Founded in December 2018, Vastai Technologies focuses on providing high performance artificial intelligence and vision processing semiconductors that elevate the enjoyment in everyday life with enhanced visual experiences and real-time intelligence. Vastai’s versatile AI accelerators for data centers on cloud and edge are optimized for various applications with different computing workloads, such as computer vision, video processing and natural language processing, with leading performance and rich features, as well as competitive throughput per watt. Vastai Technologies is dedicated to becoming the powerhouse of heterogeneous cloud and edge computing and one of the leading chip design companies in the world.

Khronos Group Welcomes ByteDance as Contributor Member

Founded in 2012, ByteDance’s mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Helo, and Resso, as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

ByteDance’s platforms aim to help users explore and discover the world’s creativity, knowledge and moments that matter in everyday life while empowering everyone to be a creator directly from their smartphones. We are committed to building a safe, healthy and positive online environment for all our users.

Khronos Group Welcomes Masterpiece Studio as Associate Member

Masterpiece Studio is on a mission to empower 1 Billion 3D creators. Since 2015, we’ve been focused on developing the most intuitive and powerful 3D content creation platform, using virtual reality and machine learning to remove complex technical barriers. Masterpiece Studio’s immersive software allows users to easily create high-fidelity 3D models, from concept to animation, making it possible for anyone to adapt their 2D skills into 3D and build our digital world.