Ubiquity6 is developing backend tools and consumer-facing app technology to enable cloud-based AR replicas of physical spaces and persistent, multiplayer AR experiences. The company focuses on building 3D mesh maps of public areas to enable instant onboarding and synchronized shared sessions. Its app has not launched at scale; the company ran a one-night public beta at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and offers a beta sign-up on its website. In demos the system supported scenes optimized for up to 100 concurrent users with smooth interaction. Ubiquity6 aims to tie episodic AR experiences to public geographic locations and to move more aggressively into core AR technology. The team is positioning its product as a Snapchat-like consumer interface combined with deeper AR infrastructure work. Ubiquity6 launched a flagship app positioned as a spatial browser and a set of ready-made building blocks for developers to create custom AR content. The startup’s core technology includes a computer-vision engine that can map a room in about 30 seconds and deep-learning algorithms that recognize objects such as walls and furniture. That object-level data lets the platform associate basic physical properties with objects so virtual items interact realistically (for example, a virtual ball bouncing off a wall). Ubiquity6 also supports persistent content that lasts beyond a single session and can be useful both indoors and outdoors. In internal tests the app hosted 10,000 users in a single space. Less than a year old, the company has positioned these technical capabilities as a way to improve graphics fidelity and social/multiplayer multipliers to drive AR adoption.

Total raised

$38M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Aug 2018