Top Augmented Reality Startups in 2026

Luma's mission is to enable everyone to capture and experience the world in lifelike 3D. We are building world's best neural capture and rendering system that makes photorealistic 3D capture from casually captured smartphone photos a reality. Our first target verticals are high-end e-commerce, real-estate, and 3D games industry.

New York City's largest born-and-bred tech startup, MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) is a full service solutions provider delivering world-class digital experiences for more than 16 years and distributing content through all forms of interactive media. Its digital leadership and capabilities are a direct result of an appreciation for designing dynamic functionality for web, mobile applications, and connected devices while integrating live and on-demand multimedia, providing valuable products for millions of fans around the globe. MLBAM also develops, deploys and distributes the highest-grossing sports app, At Bat.

Eveo is a cutting-edge AI-AR platform that offers personalized guidance and real-time simulations to revolutionize personality management for events and functions, empowering individuals to confidently express their unique style and enhance their personal image.

PlayShifu is a leading AR toy company revolutionizing the world of tomorrow by providing educational play experiences for kids today. With 16 products that offer unique tactile play experiences for ages 4-12 years, kids build STEAM and other foundational skills such as critical thinking, engineering, and geography. PlayShifu’s founders are both parents that wanted to embrace technology as a part of their children’s development. They created a vision to make screen time meaningful, not mindless. Its three toy platforms, Shifu Orboot, Shifu Plugo, and Shifu Tacto are loved around the world and are currently available in 35 plus countries as they make screen time more meaningful through a physical and digital, or as we like to say, phygital experience.

At Sitewire, we’re solving one of the country’s most urgent problems—housing scarcity—by unlocking faster, more transparent construction funding. We streamline the complex process of construction draw management with a modern, mobile-first platform that empowers developers and contractors to get paid faster and build smarter. We’re not just digitizing paperwork—we’re transforming the job site. Sitewire combines real-time job site imagery from mobile apps, IoT sensor data, and budget intelligence to track and fund project progress with unprecedented clarity. Our virtual inspections and instant payment rails eliminate delays, reduce fraud, and put capital into the hands of builders when they need it most. This is your chance to work on high-impact, user-facing systems that directly accelerate housing construction across the U.S. You’ll help us reimagine an antiquated legacy industry from the ground up—where every deploy improves the cash flow of someone building a home. If you’re driven by purpose, care about clean, scalable systems, and want your code to touch the physical world, come join us. We offer a rare opportunity to get in at the ground-floor with a profitable, annually doubling business that is growing 2X-3X per year overseeing over 30,000 current homebuilding sites.

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At Augrade, our mission is to make AR/VR more accessible & adaptable to how we live, work & play.
 We’re a wearable tech startup working on AR glasses for B2B industry starting with a niche focus on Architects & interior designers. We enable them to ideate, design & present their designs in 3D using generative AI & AR technologies.

Reframe is eyewear shopping reimagined for mobile. It's goal is to take the best aspects of a store, such as being able to actually try on glasses to see how they fit and combines them with the convenience of shopping on your phone. Reframe learns user's preferences and adjusts to the size and shape of their faces to make better and better eyewear suggestions over time. Users are encouraged to take pictures with the virtual glasses and to ask friends how they look to get feedback before buying. Finally Reframe supports purchasing with both Apple Pay and credit cards to make purchases as simple and secure as possible. Glasses ordered within the app ship anywhere in the US within two business days. Reframe is the only app that helps you find the right fit, ask friends how you look, and buy glasses simply and securely without having to go to a mall. You can get Reframe on the App Store.

UniteAR is a computer vision technology driven AR platform that lets you create your own augmented reality applications without bother about the technology, just like plug and play solution. It's for free to try for everyone.