지난번 에피소드에서 소개한 메타버스 정의에 가장 적합한 스타트업
Founders
Anand has a passion for 3D user interfaces and founded BumpTop after his Masters thesis became a viral hit, leading him to present it in a TED Talk. BumpTop was a pioneering 3D, multi-touch, physics desktop interface inspired by real desks. It was acquired by Google in 2010.
Jinha developed award-winning 3D user interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, Samsung, and presented them at TED. His invention SpaceTop, a gesture-controlled 3D computer that allows a user to reach inside the screen, was the world's first AR desktop. He was named as one of the top 35 innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review and one of the 32 greatest living designers by FastCompany
Funding
50M USD
한투파, KB, Mirae, Baidu Ventures, Pine Ventures
Spatial was founded in 2016 from investors including iNovia Capital, White Star Capital, Expa (founded by Garrett Camp), Kakao Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Leaders Fund, Samsung NEXT as well as angels including Mark Pincus (Founder of Zynga), and Andy Hertzfeld (Co-Inventor of the Macintosh) and Mike Krieger (Co-Founder of Instagram).
BM
VR/oculus + zoom b2b (3d virutal meeting solution, 3D motion) → b2c (creator)
Our focus was around productivity,” said Steinerman. “When COVID started, we saw a big explosion of growth for companies using spatial for that purpose. But over the course of time, we actually saw some really interesting happening. And it was artists and creators and consumers using Spatial for different use cases that we didn’t initially expect.”
And today 80% of our usage is coming from web and mobile.”