Top Augmented Reality Startups in 2024

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.

Vermeer graduated from the AF Ventures + Techstars program in 2020. We build an AR/VR/AI enabled autonomous system control toolkit called Vermeer. We want to build a snow globe by which users can visualize and control reality. Currently we are working on drone and satelite visualization and command & control. Traction: After 7 short months of effort we won 5 phase 2 SBIRs worth $4m. We have also received a $950m IDIQ from the Air Force. We also just got accepted into the NGA's 1st accelerator program designed to inject us into the bloodstream of the NGA.

Imaginate provides a device-agnostic enterprise collaboration software for immersive training and support of heavy equipment and processes using Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality technologies. We have been rated by three top rated agencies Forrester, Gartner and IDC as a Top innovator and also by Deloitte as a Fast 500 Company for APAC in 2020. Imaginate is incorporated in 2016 in USA with headquarters in San Jose, California and has a wholly owned subsidiary in Hyderabad, India.

Our Products: AbilitàXR: A cloud platform to build your experiences in XR and grow your business. Now businesses can build super awesome experiences to engage their customers and engagement them even better. Competencies VR - Android App: A state-of-art VR app which provides a immersive platform to practice job-level skills. Currently we support interview practice for IT, Sales and Marketing, and Bank jobs. We also support Presentation Interview training and the AI-powered Final Round where questions are personalized for each user. The user can save, view and get expert feedback of the training sessions in the app. Spotlight AR - Android App: A simple but powerful AR app which lets you engage with your products even before you buy it. You can search from thousands of online 3D objects, place them in your space, adjust size or angle until it perfectly matches your decor. You can also take pictures of these objects once you are full satisfied and share it with your friends.

We are building a global learning layer for the real world, powered by mobile augmented reality. We're starting this momentous task by empowering the 80+ million teachers around the world to contribute in their own unique way, and then choose who to share it with, from their classroom to the whole world.

Provide cutting-edge research/development products to our customers in defense and government agencies with the innovative technology solutions and tools necessary to act with speed and confidence. BANC3, Inc. ("BANC3"), established in 2000, began with providing Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Information Technology ("IT") solutions primarily to Department of Defense (DoD).

We are making Nimo, World's first all-in-one smart glasses designed for multi-screen workplaces on the go. Nimo OS is designed to deliver up to 6 screens augmented in the real world and a rich user interface specifically designed for multi-screen productivity. Which saves 2.5hrs/day and works better from anywhere. We launched Nimo Beta in public on 21st March. Progress in 6 days. Completely organic. 1. Received $3.2M+ investment commitments in 6 days through nimoplanet.com. 2. 100+ Paid reservations in 6 days. Which converts to $79,900+ in revenue. 3. Enterprises confirmed a total of 900 units in the last 6 days. Which converts to $405,000 one-time revenue and $421,200 ARR. 4. 1500+ people joined the waiting list.

Founded by entrepreneur Rajiv Dingra, RD&X Network is a global transformation network that leverages deep tech like AI, Blockchain, Robotics, XR and IoT, to drive brand, business, media, and data transformation. We are building our network by investing in early-stage companies in the deep tech, gig economy, adtech, and martech industry globally, along with creating flagship in-house solutions. We are looking at building a global presence in the US, EMEA, and APAC.We are a geography agnostic and gig economy-powered network focused on a forward-looking work culture. We have some of the best industry talents on board and we identify ourselves as Transformists. We believe that transformation is not just for business, but for our people too. To know more, visit rdandx.com.

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.

Named after ‘Ajna’, the sixth chakra or the third eye that activates ‘intuitive vision’, AjnaLens is a Mumbai-based company making immersive augmented, virtual and mixed reality devices and software solutions for Defence, Enterprise and Skilling sectors. It is the first and only XR hardware OEM to manufacture AR/VR glasses in India. The impact-driven startup is on a mission to unlock human potential by empowering them with augmented intelligence. In November 2014, at IIT Bombay, AjnaLens was established with the purpose of fostering inclusive development in society by empowering people at the grassroots with the right tool for this decade - a ‘holographic wearable computer’. It empowers and enables humans to perceive and do what is beyond their capabilities by seamlessly connecting the digital world with reality. AjnaLens is helping India’s government and fortune 500 companies in their digital transformation journey by providing end-to-end solutions, such as Enterprise Metaverse, VR training simulators, AR-based remote assistance, Digital twin, and more. Moreover, AjnaLens has been building cutting-edge AR/VR solutions for the Indian Army, Navy, DRDO and ministry of defence. It has also deployed the world's largest metaverse for vocational training with Tata technologies and is upskilling India from the grassroots. AjnaLens has filed 20+ National and International patents in AR/VR and allied fields. The company has won numerous awards for cutting-edge innovations and has been featured in 100+ publications. Our Clients: Indian Army, Indian Navy, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, L&T, Tata Technologies, Mahindra and Mahindra, Tata Steel and many more Partners/Ecosystem/Accelerators: NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Unreal Engine, T-Hub, Forge Accelerator, iDEX, Innovation HUB India by Facebook Key Investors: Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Japan Vyas, Chetan Kajaria, Chirayu Khimji, Jay Jesrani, Maharashtra Defence and Aerospace Venture Fund, MHD Group, JITO, Let's Venture and many more