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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ARSKAN is a young, innovative, French deep-tech company resulting from scientific research. ARSKAN is working on ambitious R&D programs to improve its technologies for compressing, transferring and displaying 3D meshes, without data loss and without constraints.

ARSKAN offers massive and complex 3D data visualization technologies for the web, accessible on all types of terminals (PC, smartphone and VR headsets), requiring very little server resources, hardware resources and low bandwidth consumption. ARSKAN’s visualization and transfer solutions are therefore economically viable and eco-friendly.

The technological solutions of ARSKAN are:

• ARSKAN Codec (ACO), a progressive lossless compressor / decompressor of 3D meshes
• ARSKAN MoveInside (AMI), a web viewer of 3D meshes and external data (IoT, AI, business applications, software, media…)
• ARSKAN Silodata (ASD), an intelligent storage platform, with a system of rights and sharing, which provides access to AMI and ACO technologies

ARSKAN solutions can be integrated via CLI and packages, and are also accessible and testable in SAAS mode on an online demonstrator and via an API. With these products, ARSKAN offers a way to create real 3D digital twins, by making your data interactive, collaborative and connected to your own database.

Democratising technology – providing access to tools – has been our motivation since the Raspberry Pi project began. By driving down the cost of general-purpose computing to below $5, we’ve opened up the ability for anybody to use computers in projects that used to require prohibitive amounts of capital. Today, with barriers to entry being removed, we see Raspberry Pi computers being used everywhere from interactive museum exhibits and schools to national postal sorting offices and government call centers. Kitchen table businesses all over the world have been able to scale and find success in a way that just wasn’t possible in a world where integrating technology meant spending large sums on laptops and PCs.

StockGraphy is a company that develops 3D content technologies and viewers that operate on online platforms such as Metaverse and Web3D/AR/VR. In the development of a lightweight viewer with a high flexibility, we realized 3D visualization that works with EC and business systems. Our 3D content technologies are used in industries such as apparel / textile, cultural property protection, cosmetics, automobiles, and city planning. In addition, StockGraphy operates BEGIN3D.com, a media for 3D industrial use. BEGIN3D.com also sells 3D tools such as Reality Capture. StockGraphy is interested in OpenGL, WebGL, and glTF.

Nextech AR Solutions is the engine accelerating the growth of the Metaverse. Using breakthrough AI, Nextech AR is able to quickly, easily and affordably ARitize (transform) vast quantities and varieties of existing assets at scale making products, people and places ready for interactive 3D use, giving creators at every level all the essential tools they need to build out their digital AR vision in the Metaverse. Our platform agnostic tools allow brands, educators, students, manufacturers, creators, and technologists to create immersive, interactive and the most photo-realistic 3D assets and digital environments, compose AR experiences, and publish them omnichannel. With a full suite of end-to-end AR solutions in 3D Commerce, Education, Events, and Industrial Manufacturing, Nextech AR is in a unique position to meet the needs of the world’s biggest brands and all Metaverse contributors.

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. Tencent also publishes some of the world’s most popular video games and other high-quality digital content, enriching interactive entertainment experiences for people around the globe. Tencent also offers a range of services such as cloud computing, advertising, FinTech, and other enterprise services to support our clients’ digital transformation and business growth.