Top Virtual Reality Startups in 2027

The Verse: Building Games That Heal **THE VERSE OVERVIEW**: The Verse creates games, experiences, and rituals that uplift humanity. **WHO WE ARE:** The Verse is a global community of inspired gamers, developers, designers, scientists, artists, visionaries, teachers, and students who join together to passionately contribute their wide-ranging expertise to invent experiences that enhance human flourishing. **MISSION:** Our mission is to collaboratively create digital therapeutics and experiences that are playful, embodied, and ritual-enriched, that invite co-creation and foster participation and that enhance health, improve well-being and raise consciousness.

Unity is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. The company’s 1,400+ person research and development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than three billion times per month in 2019 on more than two billion unique devices. For more information, please visit unity.com. Download Unity: unity3d.com/get-unity We're hiring! Visit our careers site: careers.unity.com For support, please email: [email protected] Check us out on our other social channels: Twitter: twitter.com/unity3d Facebook: facebook.com/unity3d LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/unity-technologies Instagram: instagram.com/unitytechnologies

AppliedVR is a leader in digital therapeutics, pioneering virtual reality-based treatments that address the complexity of chronic pain. Our mission is to empower patients with the tools to live life, beyond chronic pain. Rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness, AppliedVR’s EaseVRx is the first VR-based prescription therapeutic to receive ‘Breakthrough Therapy Designation’ by the FDA. Offering a comprehensive approach that encompasses the biological, psychological and social factors that influence how people experience chronic pain, EaseVRx enables patients to change the way they process pain and develop new, positive habits and coping skills that improve quality of life. Patients can easily self-administer EaseVRx in the comfort of their own homes, at any time, without restrictions tied to a healthcare professional’s schedule – advancing remote care as well as quality, equity and efficiency in chronic pain management.

Anduril brings Silicon Valley talent and funding to the defense sector, assembling a diverse team of experts in artificial intelligence, computer vision, sensor fusion, optics, and data analysis - including senior engineers from Oculus VR, Palantir, General Atomics, SpaceX, Tesla, and Google. We believe that if we build practical solutions using the latest technology, we can deliver far better outcomes at a dramatically lower cost.

Inworld is the leading AI engine for games, enabling developers to build groundbreaking game mechanics, dynamic NPCs and worlds that evolve with each action. Inworld powers experiences built by Niantic, NetEase Games and LG, among others, and has partnerships with key industry players such as Nvidia, Ubisoft, Microsoft/Xbox, Epic Games and Unity. Inworld is the best-funded startup in AI and games with a $500 million valuation and backing from top tier investors , incuding Intel, Microsoft, Lightspeed, Bitkraft, Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, and more. Inworld was recognized by CB Insights as one of the 100 most promising AI companies in the world and was nominated alongside Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI and Nvidia for Generative AI Innovator of the Year at the VentureBeat Awards 2023.

Gabb Global's advantage is the extensive application of neuroscience perspective and methods that produce the most comfortable environment for someone learning a new language. Our neuroscience research demonstrates our reliability and validity. Our professional linguists and learning experience designers coming together help to create and unforgettable learning experience. Together, we create a flexible and efficient style of immersive learning.

Zoniqx is a real world asset tokenization infrastructure company headquartered in Menlo Park with a development centre in India. We provide the compliant, institutional grade rails that let asset owners, funds, issuers and financial institutions bring traditional and private assets on chain. Our platform combines blockchain and AI to power the full tokenization lifecycle. This spans issuance, smart contract based asset and fund structuring, and secure primary and secondary transfer through investor wallets. The result is greater liquidity, transparency and access for assets that were historically hard to move. We work with issuers, funds and capital allocators across multiple markets, giving them the technology and compliance foundation to tokenize at scale.

We're creating the most innovative sports viewing experience ever built. LiveLike combines live sports streaming, an immersive technology experience and a greater social community of friends & fans. Our new Audience Engagement Suite gives broadcasters’ teams full control to activate their mobile audience through social features. Our VR experience brings all of your content and format types together in one location. Simply put, imagine being at the stadium to watch a live game in your own VIP suite, being able to invite your friends instantly from anywhere in the world, replays and highlights, and even change seats inside the stadium at will. At LiveLike, we move fast and fail fast. We're tackling unsolved challenges daily. Developing an app that does VoIP, 4K video playback, 3D rendering and more, all at performance on a mobile device. Creating a streaming system that can synchronize live streams across clients, embed real-time statistical and positional data, and more...

OVA is a pioneer in AI-enabled immersive software technology development. We work with industry leaders from around the globe who are looking to transform their business with Spatial and Immersive Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, and Virtual Reality. We also work in close collaboration with the top academic ecosystems to develop cutting-edge solutions that democratize XR. StellarX, our powerful content creation tool, empowers anyone to create their own immersive environments and simulations. Simply drag-and-drop, grab and go, point and click, or set it and forget it. You name it, consider it done — without code.

VRChat makes it easy to create and experience virtual reality with other people. Any 3D content brought onto their platform is instantly transformed into a social experience. When you launch the VRChat app, you'll be greeted by hundreds of user generated worlds and avatars. Users can then choose an avatar identity, interact naturally with friends in various social experiences or share their own.