OVR is made up of a diverse team of scientists, engineers, scent designers, technologists, and entrepreneurs. We were inspired by the potential of virtual reality to meet pressing human need and recognize that our oldest and most primal sense—scent—has the power unlock that potential. Our mission is to deliver best-in-class olfactory technology to the VR industry, advance research for olfactory technology, and support use cases and industries that make the world a better place.
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Khronos Group Welcomes AVATAAR as Contributor Member
AVATAAR is shaping consumers’ online buying/ browsing behavior by creating immersive, interactive shopping experiences and re-imagining the visual discovery journey. It uses a globally first-of-its-kind XR+AR technology platform, taking a deep learning AI-driven approach to scaling commerce. With 10+ US patents and strategic partnership with Facebook and Google, Avataar is deeply committed to re-shaping the digital commerce industry through delivering life-size 3D and XR+AR first experiences across all consumer touchpoints (web, in-app and social channels), using their proprietary platform. Avataar works behind the scenes, powering some of the world's largest automobile, retail and e-commerce brands across US, Asia and Europe in delivering delightful, new age experiences for end-consumers, and re-imagining business RoI in the course.
Khronos Group Welcomes Rive as Associate Member
Use Rive’s familiar design and animation tools with our ground-breaking State Machine to create interactive content for your products, apps, sites, and games. No code or full code, you choose. Easily embed interactive animations or manipulate everything with code — Rive empowers you to work the way you want.
Khronos Group Welcomes Nreal as Contributor Member
Nreal is leading the world in the revolutionary AR transformation and is the only company that has launched consumer AR glasses on a global scale. Widely recognized for its superior display technology and product design, Nreal has established partnerships with more than 10 world-renowned carriers and brought its product to six countries to date.
Khronos Group Welcomes PTC as Contributor Member
PTC unleashes industrial innovation with award-winning, market-proven solutions that enable companies to differentiate their products and services, improve operational excellence, and increase workforce productivity. With PTC, and its partner ecosystem, manufacturers can capitalize on the promise of today’s new technology to drive digital transformation.
Khronos Group Welcomes Fixstars Solutions as Associate Member
Fixstars is a software company devoted to "Speed up your Business". Through its software parallelization/optimization expertise, its highly effective use of multi-core processors, and application acceleration for the next generation of memory technology that delivers high speed IO as well as power savings, Fixstars provides "Green IT," while accelerating customers' business in various fields.
Khronos Group Welcomes Virtual Dimension Center as Associate Member
The Virtual Dimension Center is Germany's leading network for Virtual Engineering. Since 2002, the VDC creates synergies between the network members and supports technology transfer. Today, approximately 100 members and partners - among them research institutions, technology suppliers, service providers, users and multipliers - are working in the topics of Simulation, Visualisation, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) and Virtual Reality (VR) along the whole value chain Virtual Engineering together. Hence they benefit of a higher Innovation activity and productivity due to information and cost advantages compared to companies outside the network. The competitive advantages are a result of transparent competences, raised information flow and easier business contacts.
Khronos Group Welcomes New York Times R&D as Contributor Member
The New York Times Research and Development team applies emerging technologies in service of our company’s mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world. Using new technologies and formats, we develop technical capabilities for our newsroom and new forms of storytelling for our readers. As part of our method, we evaluate emerging trends in media and technology and forecast how they might play out over the next two to three years. Once we identify an opportunity, we dedicate a team to exploring the space and developing products in collaboration with other parts of our organization.
Khronos Group Welcomes NaturalPoint as Contributor Member
NaturalPoint, Inc. was founded in 1997 to develop and bring to market high quality image tracking technology and unique computer control devices. Now the largest motion capture provider in the world, NaturalPoint offers high-performance optical tracking solutions at the most affordable prices in the industry. As a result, it has become the favorite of industry leaders in VR, drones, game and film production, university education and research, engineering, robotics, industrial measurement, life science, sports performance, injury prevention, and many others.
Khronos Group Welcomes Alibaba as Contributor Member
Alibaba Group was founded in 1999. Our mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. We enable businesses to transform the way they market, sell and operate and improve their efficiencies. We provide the technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, retailers and other businesses to leverage the power of new technology to engage with their users and customers and operate in a more efficient way.
Khronos Group Welcomes Teledyne Digital Imaging as Contributor Member
Teledyne DALSA is an international leader in high performance digital imaging and semiconductors with approximately 1,000 employees world-wide. Established in 1980 and acquired by Teledyne Technologies in 2011, Teledyne DALSA designs, develops, manufactures, and markets digital imaging products and solutions, in addition to providing semiconductor products and services. Our core competencies are in specialized integrated circuit and electronics technology, software, and highly engineered semiconductor wafer processing.
Teledyne DALSA exists for the long term. Our goal is to build upon our 30 year heritage of developing the world's leading high performance digital imaging and semiconductor solutions and to accelerate our level of innovation. We focus on R&D development but also draw on the capabilities available to us as part of a larger organization. We seek to deliver products and technology that are truly innovative so that we can help our customers succeed.
Khronos Group Welcomes CableLabs as Non-Profit Member
CableLabs invents new ways to keep people connected by making broadband faster and more responsive, reliable and secure, cementing the cable network as the platform of choice for enjoying incredible experiences in entertainment and connectivity. As the leading innovation and R&D lab for the cable industry, CableLabs creates global impact through its member companies around the world and its subsidiaries, Kyrio and UpRamp. With a state-of-the art research and innovation facility and collaborative ecosystem with thousands of vendors, CableLabs delivers impactful network technologies for the entire industry.
Khronos Group Welcomes Shenzhen Skyworth New World Technology Co. Ltd. as Associate Member
Shenzhen Skyworth New World Technology Co., Ltd., established in May 2017, is a subsidiary of Skyworth Group that deploys virtual reality and augmented reality industries. The team has more than 10 years of related product development experience.
At present, Skyworth VR has applied for hundreds of patents related to virtual reality and augmented reality, developed and mass-produced a variety of VR head-mounted display products, participated in the formulation of a number of virtual reality national standards and industry standards, and has undertaken the national key research and development plan "Technology Winter Olympics" key special topic "VR interactive intelligent terminal and system".
In the future, Skyworth VR will continue to carry out in-depth layout in the field of virtual reality and augmented reality, produce more high-quality products and content, and provide industry customers with more complete industry solutions.
Khronos Group Welcomes vivo Mobile Communications as Contributor Member
vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a design-driven value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. vivo now have over 400 Million users and cover more than 50 countries and regions. Facing diversified user groups, vivo lets consumers around the world enjoy extraordinary moments in life and creates surprises for them to embrace technological innovations.
Khronos Group Welcomes PlayCanvas as Contributor Member
PlayCanvas is a subsidiary of Snap who joined the Khronos Group as a Contributor member. PlayCanvas is a world leader in web graphics technology. It is responsible for the open source PlayCanvas Engine that is powered by WebGL, WebXR and glTF. To make WebGL content creation quick and easy, it also provides a browser-based, real-time collaborative Editor. In the Editor, developers can build browser games, 3D e-commerce applications, playable ads and AR/VR applications.