Our partners
A wide spectrum of awesome partners are working together from a wide range of perspectives and areas of expertise to achieve the mission of the OARC. Startups, large and small companies, Standard Development Organizations (SDOs), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), R&D organizations and government institutions from many countries and from diverse industries have already stepped up to shape the future.
Our partners are united behind the mission of Open AR Cloud (OARC) and are expected to contribute to our work, and help realize OARCs mission. They also get the chance to collaborate with other leaders and pioneers in real world spatial computing.
Learn about our partners:
Contact: Vladimir Ufnarovskii, Co-founder
Contact: Yohan Baillot, CEO
ARCortex supports fully the mission of the OARC. We believe the data collected for the purpose of achieving AR at world scale should be shared for the benefit of the human race and should be following open standards to allow any compliant AR system to publish data to it as well benefit from its services.
Contact: Emmi Jouslehto, CMO
We at Arilyn believe that developing an open AR cloud would allow for a free distribution of virtual content and benefit the humanity.
Contact: Afonso O’Neill, ARIA Chief Instigator
As a company focused on delivering industrial strength AR to vertical markets we believe it to be critical that the AR cloud, as the essential infrastructure of the next computing platform, be build collaboratively and transparently so that it becomes free and public.
Contact: Jonathan Reeves, CEO
We at Arvizio believe shared, multi-user AR and MR experiences are essential to drive the industry forward for both enterprises and consumers alike. The Open AR Cloud organization is an extremely important initiative to define areas of interoperability and cross vendor specifications that will likely define the shape of AR experiences for years to come.
Contact: Baran Korkmaz, CEO
We at ARWAY support the vision of the Open AR Cloud initiative, driving the development of open and interoperable AR Cloud technology that is accessible for all. This closely aligns with our vision at ARWAY for pioneering the future of the AR Cloud, starting indoors with scalable navigation. Cutting costs associated with traditional hardware infrastructures.
Contact: Marc Murphy, CEO
We are thrilled to offer our support as a Founding Partner of Open AR Cloud.The emergence of blending of realities is and will continue to drive impactful improvements in our ability to experience the world we cannot physically create with ease. We fully support the efforts to pave the way for smoother and better standardization and enable better experiences, collaborations, and visualizations.
Contact: Ori Inbar, Co-founder
Contact: Ori Inbar, Co-founder
There is a growing concern in the XR industry that the AR Cloud - a critical infrastructure for the future of computing - might be controlled by corporations and become fragmented across too many instances. Therefore AugmentedReality.org – the non profit behind AWE - is excited to be one of the founding partners of the Open AR Cloud initiative to promote collaboration among the players towards an open, ethical and collaborative AR Cloud
Contact: Robin Waibel, Managing Partner
Bitforge is an Augmented Reality pioneer. With it’s 15 years of experience in mobile software development, Bitforge belongs to the top performing Augmented Reality developers in the Swiss market.
Contact: Arka Bala, CEO
ContextGrid is creating the global shared registry / DNS for Augmented Reality as a Founding Partner of the Open AR Cloud.
Contact: David Bomphrey, Co-Founder
Darabase is the property registry and platform to display digital content on the real world. Currently there is no clear regulation on how and where commercial AR content is displayed on private property. Darabase is a unique solution for owners to take control of their rights and define how their properties are used. This is an increasingly important issue and Darabase believe the Open AR Cloud can raise awareness and enable operating standards globally.
Contact: Rahul Tomar, Managing Director
We are fully here to support the OARC for the development of digital twins of the city infrastructure.
Visionstar Information Technology (Shanghai) Co.,Ltd
Contact: Sven Zhang, Marketing Director
We support the development of open and interoperable AR Cloud technologies, data and standards to connect the physical and digital worlds for the benefit of all.
Ethar
Contact: Tony Hodgson, CEO, Principal
Ensuring interoperability within and between geospatial mapping and localization models, and providing for intelligent indexing and discovery of AR content is critical to scaling the ecosystem. OARC has provided the vision and leadership to forge collaboration between some of the most important organizations in this field. We're proud to work with OARC and partner organizations to realize the promise of a thriving open AR cloud environment.
ETSI
Contact: Ms. Chantal BONARDI
ETSI believes in the power of communities and partnerships. Our relationship with Open AR Cloud (OARC) is a key factor in allowing the exchange of views and expertise necessary to deliver a framework for the interoperability of Augmented Reality (AR) components, systems and services that will help sustain innovation and market access for the industry. Interoperability is needed to enable a thriving ecosystem of AR solutions, breaking silos and allowing a diverse range of technology providers to deliver components in their area of excellence.
Contact: Cory Grenier, CEO
We fully believe in and support the mission of Open AR Cloud. Our belief is that in the coming years all Apps, websites and devises will need to become specially Aware. There will be a new group of “Standard” APIs that all developers will choose, and these need to be open and standard.
Contact: Jean-Francois Gaudy, Chief Innovation Officer, Executive Committee Member
As a company already involved in the creation of collaborative standards for AR and VR, we believe that the OARC’s approach is the best one to ensure widespread adoption of AR devices. We also appreciate the fact that one of the main objectives of the project is to guarantee the privacy of future users of the AR cloud.
Contact: Srinivas Krishna, Founder
Geogram Corporation and AWE Company Limited are proud to be Founding Partners of the Open AR Cloud Organization. Together we are committed to building an AR ecosystem that shares our common mission and core values.
Contact: Lukasz Siemaszko, Co-Founder
We support the Open AR Cloud initiative - we believe it will accelerate adoption of the technology that connects the physical and digital worlds for benefit of all.
Contact: Luis Bollinger, Chief Marketing Officer
We provide a XR streaming technology enabling the remote rendering of XR applications with high performance from external servers.
IFE - Institute for Energy Technology
Contact: Michael N. Luka, Department Head VR & AR at IFE Digital Systems
As a research institute that works primarily with industries that operate safety-critical infrastructure, we believe that open standards for interoperability, privacy, and security of AR cloud technologies are essential to unlocking the true potential of information-rich spatial computing as soon as possible. As a founding partner, we strongly support the OARC mission.
Contact: Felipe Sequerra CTO at svarmony Technologies GmbH
Since innovation.rocks and Augmentaio joined forces and became svarmony, we have seen and taken part in the AR industry growth. As the technology is being understood and adapted by the industries and people, the need of standardisation and protocols is a requirement. For this reason, innovation.rocks is fully committed to supporting and being part of the Open AR Cloud’s mission.
Contact: John Daly, Program Manager
IPKeys Technologies is proud to be involved with the OARCs mission with a keen interest in the benefits for immersive training and education technologies. Our goal is to help translate training into engaging experiences and helping grow the AR ecosystem is a key pathway to doing so.
Contact: Trond Hovland, Managing Director
We at ITS Norway partner with Open AR Cloud and support their important mission. We believe that access to cloud-based AR will initiate a new way of working based on sharing.
Contact: Waël Chanab, President & Co-founder & CTO
IMAGINE360 and VRARA Montreal fully support the mission of Open AR Cloud and are dedicated to contribute to building the Open AR Cloud ecosystem.
Contact: Mikko Karvonen, EVP Engineering
We at Immersal believe that interoperable and open standards are imperative when building the global AR Cloud. The Open AR Cloud Organization is doing important work in tackling privacy and other issues with these emerging technologies, and we want to be there in the forefront.
Contact: Mauro Rubin, Founder & CEO
As a software company focused on developing and distributing AR solutions tailored to industrial processes, we thoroughly support OARC’s mission to help build the next generation of infrastructure that will enhance communication and collaboration between humans, AI systems, machines, and environments. Working with open and transparent standards way will definitely benefit the entire ecosystem.
Contact: Tore Abelvik, Section Manager, Mapping
We at the Norwegian Mapping Authority support the mission of Open AR Cloud and will contribute to develop the AR Cloud ecosystem for the benefit of all.
Contact: Ronald Christopher, Co-founder & Director
Kluarc supports and endorses OARC, the team at Kluarc intends to contribute and support the OARC in their mission to build a Better Reality, Together.
Contact: Jungho Kim, Manager/Principal Researcher,
Kluarc supports and endorses OARC, the team at Kluarc intends to contribute and support the OARC in their mission to build a Better Reality, Together.
Contact: Harald Manheim, CTO
Ludenso aims to change the way we engage and interact with technology for the better, and are certain that mixed reality will fundamentally change the way we interact with the digital world in the coming decades. In this transition, we believe it is paramount to ensure privacy and safety for the users, and that's one of the reasons we fully support the mission of Open AR Cloud.
Contact: Olenka Polak, Co-Founder
The world's first shared virtual environment can only be made possible through open collaboration between the world's brightest thinkers in spatial computing -- OARC is taking on this noble and complicated challenge. We are unbelievably humbled to have a seat at the table.
Contact: Nazih Fino, Founder and Developer
Our mission is to utilize the Augmented Reality technology and maximize the effective use of AR Cloud
Contact: Maciej Dworakowski, Lead Product Manager
Contact: Marius Seglsten, CTO
As a geospatial software and cloud service provider with a long history of contributing to both standards development and open source software we fully support the important mission of Open AR Cloud!
Contact: Julia Beabout, CEO, Creative Director
We've been working outdoor, world-scale AR for several years. We are excited to see the advancements being made in the development of an AR Cloud. OARC is playing a big part in that movement.
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Contact: Scott Simmons, Executive Director, Standards Program at Open Geospatial
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is pleased to join Open AR Cloud (OARC) as a Founding Partner. As a developer of open standards to provide geospatial interoperability, OGC sees a great demand for consistent and common use of “location” in AR. OGC sees a critical role for OARC to harness the talents and contributions of a variety of organizations all working to promote AR technology and adoption and to help the AR community converge on an open ecosystem upon which everyone can build.
Contact: Jan-Erik Vinje, Chief Executive Director and CTO at OnSiteViewer
At OnSiteViewer we have high expectations that the types of open standards and protocols as well as ethical best practices for real-world spatial computing that OARC is working for will benefit our business greatly as well as make the future better for all!
Contact: Christine Perey, Spime Wrangler
We at PEREY Research & Consulting are an Open AR Cloud partner because we believe that, for the success of our industry and for our clients to fully benefit from deep AR technology implementations, there must be widespread component, systems and data interoperability. Before we have open and interoperable AR, the specific, in-depth, multi-stakeholder discussions need to be conducted in (and resulting agreements, policies and guidelines published by) a neutral, global and open community of AR experts. We will work towards the Open AR Cloud becoming the platform for this community to achieve open and interoperable spatial computing.
Contact: Didoe Prevedourou, Managing Director
p-NET has extensive capabilities and infrastructure in the areas of private 5G, 5G slicing, edge computing, and digital twins. For this reason, we are strongly interested to participate in the OARC community in order to contribute towards Open standards for Mixed Reality applications and the Metaverse. p-NET is a strong supporter of open architectures and our current facilities in 5G are also based on such open technologies. We have the expertise to integrate technologies across domains and we strive to enable technology which is accessible and interoperable. For p-NET it will be an honor to join the OARC Global community and participate actively in the development of next generation mixed reality and metaverse open standards and technologies
Contact: Anders Horne CTO, Pointmedia
Contact: Niels Østergaard, Creative Director at Head of Purple Scout
At Purple Scout we believe that it is critical to the future of XR (AR/VR) that there is an open, collaborative and transparent development environments for spatial computing communities. We think that supporting this it will benefit the humanity in years to come.
Contact: Karsten Krispin, Co-Founder and CEO at RabbitAI
Spatial computing and AI have the potential to fundamentally change our interaction with our environment. rabbitAI provides innovative technologies for data acquisition and mixed reality and deliveries key components for realiable spatial perception and edge cases for computer vision.
Contact: Grégory Maubon, Co-founder & President of RA'pro
Ra'pro supports the mission of OARC because we strongly think that open and interoperable technologies are the only way to increase usages and usefulness of Augmented Reality for all, anytimes, anywhere.
Contact: Alex Chuang, CEO
We at Shape Immersive fully support the mission of the Open AR Cloud and will contribute to making AR cloud solutions open, interoperable and based on community-driven standards.
Social and Interactive Media Consortiu
Contact: Dan Lovy, Executive Director
We are committed to open standards across a number of technologies. It is core to our mission.
Contact: Dogu Taskiran, CEO
Spatial computing has already started changing the way we experience our physical world at a fundamental level. Developing open standards and interoperable technologies ensure that these technologies are built for everyone's benefit while also protecting our basic rights as individuals and societies. Stambol Studios are very excited to join OARC in their profound mission to create these open standards and technologies
Contact: Ori Inbar, Co-founder
Contact: Jan-Erik Vinje, Chief Executive Director
At SuperVerse we set forth to help ignite a digital renaissance, the spatial computing era, by uniting and upgrading the physical and digital worlds, for the benefit of all! We are fully aligned with the mission of Open AR Cloud and intend to contribute to the development of an Open Spatial Web through efforts such as the reference Open Spatial Computing Platform.
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Contact: María Arias de Reyna, President
OSGeo is interested and wants to support the Open AR-Cloud Association as one of the goals of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation is to ensure interoperability by supporting open standards and formats, which are key components for an inclusive mapping community.
Contact: Julien Casarin, Coordinator
The UMI3D Consortium intends to involve the entire AR/VR community in the creation of an Open communication standard for real-time collaboration in XR. In that context we naturally join our efforts with OARC to promote the emergence of an interoperable AR Cloud that is a requirement for spatialized collaboration in XR.
Contact: Spyros Denazis, Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras
University of Patras, in particular the Network Architectures and Management (NAM) group of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, has deployed and operates an open 5G/6G/Cloud/IoT infrastructure that is used in various experimentation activities with various verticals (https://wiki.patras5g.eu/). Furthermore, the Visualization and Virtual Reality Group (VVR) carries out advanced research in the areas of Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Visualization, Computational Geometry, Human-Computer Interaction, Stereoscopic Vision, etc. To this end, we are very much interested in joining the OARC community in order to contribute towards Open standards for Mixed Reality applications and the Metaverse as well as develop and validate them in our experimental facilities. We strongly believe that becoming a member of the OARC Global community will bring mutual benefits and accelerate adoption of the next generation mixed reality and metaverse open standards and technologies.
Contact: Suzan Oslin, eXperience aRchitect
As we begin to merge the digital with the real world, experience design is becoming more important that ever. Collaboration with architects, urban planners, industrial and automotive designer is critical to a building safe, accessible and inclusive future. Working on the frontier with the Open AR Cloud is the best place to be the most impactful for evangelizing user experience.
Contact: Mark C. Shaw, Founder & CEO
I am truly honoured to be side-by-side amazing members of the OARC. I have high expectations for this amazing group, and with every great mind included, we are sure to help set a solid structure to the core utilization of augmented reality.
Contact: Steven Swanson, Co-Founder & Director of Partnerships
Mixed Reality and the Spatial Web will have a profound impact on society. The standards of interoperability and community that Open AR Cloud is developing to enable these technologies are vital and VERSES Foundation is thrilled to offer support as a founding partner.
Contact: Sabarish Gnanamoorthy, Founder
Indoor navigation and the wayfinding space is going to majorly impacted by the AR cloud. WaypointAR wants to play a key role in shaping this future with an AR Cloud so we can start using it to build highly effective wayfinding and start solving tangible real world problems with AR.
Contact: Thibaud Michel, Lead AR scientist
At Wemap --building a mapping client based on OpenStreetMap-- our vision was from day one that digital tools could empower us to better understand the world around us. Thus we invested a lot of time and energy in augmented reality. As members of the OSM community, we are thrilled to be part of an initiative that shares the same principles and values in terms of openness, shared responsibility and resources, and community. Furthermore, considering the immense stakes of the AR paradigm shift, Open AR Cloud's mission is of tantamount importance to ensure that these innovations serve mankind.
Contact: Jason Fox, Head of Spatial Computing
Worlds is building a platform that will enable spatial intelligence and will power many AR Clouds globally. We recognize the great relationships that we need to build with industry standards organizations like Open AR Cloud, and others, in order to help define and build standards for industry consumption.
Contact: Ferhan Ozkan, CEO
Contact: Jason Fox, Head of Spatial Computing
As the global organization of XR innovators with the mission towards democratizing VR/AR innovation, we believe Open AR Cloud will unleash the collaboration potential between AR innovators and tech giants. As XR First Innovation Platform and XR Circles program we believe vendor neutral and open approach to foster innovation for the immersive future.
Contact: Ali Hantal, CEO
We support Open AR Cloud's mission to drive the development of open and interoperable spatial computing technology, data and standards to connect the physical and digital worlds for the benefit of all.
Contact: Alex Hertel, CEO
Xperiel supports Open AR Cloud in order to help the development of this important technology so that it thrives and protects the freedoms of its users.
We believe immersive technology is ready to change the world. Together we can break down barriers and bring convergence to multiple devices, multiple platforms, across multiple locations. Building an open spatial web that respects the rights of its users is a big challenge, it’s not something we can do alone. Join us, and the many others building toward an OARC, the interoperable infrastructure that will power the next generation of spatial computing
Contact: Connell Gauld, Founder & CTO
At Zappar it's our mission to democratize augmented, virtual and mixed realities. We firmly believe that working together towards open platforms and standards is the best way to bring this amazing technology to as many content developers and end-users as possible.