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.

Thank you to the recent recipients of the Khronie Awards. These special awards are presented to individuals who have made significant contributions to the Khronos Group.

Congratulations to:

• Hwanyong Lee - The Khronos Group
• Bill Licea-Kane - OpenGL
• Ed Mackey - 3D Formats
• Shrenik Sadalgi - 3D Commerce

For more information on Khronie recipients, visit our Khronie Awards page.

prefrontal cortex specializes in the creation of innovative applications and interactive concepts. Meaningful presentations and software prototypes for VR, AR and mobile devices enable more efficient research, development, decision making and marketing – a creative view, technical know-how and intuitive operating concepts are the basics of the applications of tomorrow. We offer everything as a one-stop shop: project planning, interaction concept as well as design and development. This ensures that we offer our partners the result that we want ourselves: impressive applications that show new possibilities, that astound and inspire.

RasterGrid Kft. was founded by Daniel Rákos with the goal to share the passion towards scrupulously designed and efficiently implemented software with clients across a wide range of industries.

With operations in the United States, Europe, China and Japan, Pico develops innovative VR solutions which enable our users to experience the best in VR and Interactive CGI experiences. Founded in 2015, our company has over 300 team members around the world. We love to make VR products, but more importantly, we love to see people enjoying the amazing, fun and entertaining worlds that VR enables.

MetaVRse is a code-optional platform that makes it easy to create & share interactive, immersive experiences on the web.

XEED, LLC specializes in portable motion analysis. XEED brings full-body human motion capture to a small size and a low price point previously thought impossible. The wearable devices are used in degenerative movement disorder studies by enabling therapists, physicians, and researchers to monitor exactly how their patients move throughout the day and provide them with personalized recommendations. The technology has also been used by US warfighters in a DARPA study to analyze the change in physical performance as it relates to infectious disease. XEED aims to bring full-body mocap to fields that are priced out of it or would otherwise be turned off by the bulkiness of existing solutions. By achieving unprecedented battery life and providing a completely wireless solution, the innovative wearables exceed limits and improve the way we interact with movement.

Snap Inc. is a camera company. At Snap, we believe that reinventing the camera represents our greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. We contribute to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

3co seeks to automatically 3D model the world’s retail products with superhuman vision, speed, and scalability. The 3co team has deep experience in AI from NASA, Google, and Microsoft. Through simulation and lab R&D, they are developing state-of-the-art AI for physically-based inverse rendering, for powering the future of 3D commerce.

ByondXR was founded in 2016 by industry veterans Noam Levavi and Eran Galil with the goal of helping brands, wholesalers and retailers to showcase their products in the most effective and engaging way in this new and ever-changing business environment.

Founded in 2000, 3dMD develops a proven and verified technology to capture dynamic-4D anatomical shape information of a subject’s natural physical movements (1-120 3D frames per second) for applications demanding textured, 3D dense-surface image precision such as Healthcare, Computer Vision/Perception, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Wearable-tech, Human Factors, Apparel, Anthropometrics, AR/VR/XR, Biometric Enrollment, etc. With an efficient subject workflow suitable for recruiting thousands of subjects, 3dMD systems capture progressive sequences of ‘near ground-truth’ 3D images of subjects, whether it is full body, face, head, hands, foot, etc. Synchronized with a wide range of third-party devices, 3dMD generates high-volume 3D/4D training sets with anatomical fidelity to support the latest computer vision, AI, and eXtended Reality innovations. In addition, 3dMD develops sophisticated downstream software for extracting dynamic markerless derivatives of intricate human movement.