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101 Most Innovative United Kingdom Based Virtual Reality Companies & Startups

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This article showcases our top picks for the best United Kingdom based Virtual Reality companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Virtual Reality industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

Top United Kingdom Virtual Reality Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Improbable

Improbable

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Improbable is a technology company that provides a metaverse platform designed to offer virtual gaming experiences.

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Sidequest

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Sidequest is a community driven app store for virtual reality.

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Gravity Sketch

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Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.

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Emperia

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Developing immersive VR tech experiences for the premium fashion and art sectors, boosting sales and customer engagement.

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Ultraleap

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Ultraleap is working to create the most remarkable connection between people and technology.

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FundamentalVR

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FundamentalVR delivers VR haptic ‘flight simulators’ for surgery creating a safe, measurable, and repeatable space to refine skills.

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Admix

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Admix is the first programmatic monetisation platform for in-game advertising

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Reality +

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Reality + help leading brands who want to enter the Web3 space specialising in NFTs, blockchain games and metaverse

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MelodyVR

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MelodyVR is a destination for music in virtual reality.

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FitXR

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FitXR is on a mission to create a movement for movement

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Moonhub

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Moonhub provides training for companies by immersing their staff in interactive virtual reality role-play scenarios.

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VRJAM

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VRJAM is a real-time platform for virtual events and immersive content creation.

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V-Nova

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Next-generation video and image compression that works today

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Oxford VR

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Oxford VR is the UK developer of virtual reality therapy.

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nDreams

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nDreams is a videogame developer and publisher based in Farnborough, UK.

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XR Games

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XR Games makes both console and mobile Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) games for world famous Intellectual Properties.

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VividQ

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VividQ powers the revolution in digital display with Computer-Generated Holography.

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OTHERWORLD

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The brick-and-mortar metaverse. An island paradise in the cloud reached through a growing network of multi-sensory immersion pods.

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Virti

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Award-winning interactive immersive education for healthcare and beyond

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Terra Virtua

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Terra Virtua is the first fully immersive, blockchain-driven VR entertainment Platform.

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ZeroLight

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ZeroLight is a creator of the world’s most advanced car configurator solution.

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Immerse

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Leading the immersive ecosystem for enterprise. The content aggregation, distribution and reporting platform.

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Bodyswaps

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Bodyswaps is a B2B immersive learning platform (VR SaaS) designed to deliver effective and scalable soft skills training.

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Digital Catapult

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Digital Catapult drives early adoption of advanced digital technologies to grow the country’s economy.

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Somnium Space

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Somnium Space is an open, social & persistent VR platform built on blockchain. Build, import & create NFTs. Metaverse shaped by players!

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Volume

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Leading the way in Conversational AI.

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Spinview

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Advanced communication through visual simulations combined with data-driven insights – Protecting tomorrow’s world

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Volta

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Volta is an artist-driven XR platform that empowers them to create their own performance experience.

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Zappar

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Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.

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SKY ENGINE AI

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SKY ENGINE AI provides Data Cloud for Deep Learning in Vision AI and the Metaverse

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NCTech

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NCTech is a big data and analytics provider. Pioneering edge-to-cloud big data capture & provision with ML/AI for Google, government & AEC

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WRLD

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Building the Metaverse for Humanity

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Igloo Vision

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Igloo Vision is the shared immersive space company. We create immersive environments that anyone can use.

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ARuVR

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ARuVR (formerly VRtuoso) is an enterprise XR content creation, real-time guided content consumption, and live streaming SaaS platform.

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RSTLSS

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RSTLSS is a digital fashion label enabling brands to access the metaverse in a scalable way.

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CGHero

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Outsource 3D Modelling, Concept Art, Textures, VFX & More

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Rezzil

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Rezzil is a platform for elite football player development and rehabilitation.

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Challau

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Challau is an online 3D meeting platform that enables users to create their own virtual worlds for meetings and social gatherings.

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MW PLC UK

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London Stock Exchange Q1/23

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vTime Limited

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vTime is a virtual reality software company that develops apps and cloud-based solutions that redefine virtual engagement and communication.

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Virtex Stadium

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Virtex Stadium is a Computer Software Company.

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8XR

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The most powerful metaverse graphic web engine

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Masters of Pie

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A London based scale up technology company. Masters of Pie develops software to enable immersive collaboration.

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Immotion Group plc

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Immotion combine award-winning content & multi-directional motion platforms to deliver immersive VR solutions for high-traffic destinations.

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EVR Holdings

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An AIM quoted VR company focusing on virtual reality content creation through its subsidiary MelodyVR.

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StoryTerrace

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StoryTerrace helps people to capture their life story using professional writers and software.

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Emteq

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The world’s first emotion recognition and analysis platform in smart glasses

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Sine Wave Entertainment Ltd

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Sine Wave Entertainment is a virtual space for MMO developers and creators to interact with each other.

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WightFibre

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WightFibre is the only provider of commercial and residential cable television services on the Isle of Wight.

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Valkyrie Industries

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Valkyrie Industries is building the universal platform that delivers a natural perception.

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Lawtech 365

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Lawtech 365 develops innovative legal technology and software solutions for law firms.

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WaveOptics

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WaveOptics designs Augmented Reality (AR) wearables with enhanced features.

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PSYT

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PSYT exists to help individuals live happy, fulfilling and productive lives.

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Maze Theory

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Maze Theory is a virtual reality developer.

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Curiscope

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Curiscope is a UK-based augmented and virtual reality content company.

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Ariel AI

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Ariel AI powers consumer experiences on mobile devices through pixel-accurate, real-time 3D Human Perception and Reconstruction.

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Blend Media

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Blend is the world’s leading 360˚ VR video solution for Brands, Agencies and Publishers.

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PlayCanvas

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PlayCanvas is a cloud-hosted, collaborative platform for building video games.

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Rabipearl

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A.I, AR, VR, XR, 3D, Blockchain, Metaverse, Digital, Creative, SaaS, DApp, Computer Vision, NFTs

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Musemio

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Musemio is a mobile XR app that allows children to play immersive quests co-created together with partner institutions around the world.

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The Drop

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Building the future of personalised fashion

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Eatron Technologies

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Intelligent Software Platform for Battery Management and Motion Control

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Luminous Group

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3D Technology Solution Provider

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RETìníZE

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RETìníZE is a VR technology start-up.

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Austella

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We create immersive content in VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality), 3D & 360 video for leading brands worldwide.

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Roto VR

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Roto VR is the world first interactive, ‘360 degree’ chair, controlled by a users head movement, to enhance the Virtual Reality experience

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RazrCorp Group Limited

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Consumer mobile & web product company headquartered in UK with 4 subsidiaries across Luxembourg & India.

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Infinite Mixed Reality

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Infinite Mixed Reality is a full-service virtual reality and augmented reality agency.

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EF EVE

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EF EVE™ is the World’s most loved volumetric capture software, editing and distribution tools for volumetric video.

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Changingday

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Changingday creates virtual reality games for autistic people.

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Cooperative Innovations

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Development studio is an immersive technologies studio.

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Reality Zero One

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Reality Zero One’s mission is to design and create a world class end-to-end reality capture and digital reality delivery platform.

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Landmrk

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Landmrk is a flexible white-label platform that enables you to deliver digital content to your audience at specific physical locations.

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Immersionn

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Immersionn is a creative media technology company that specializes in building 3D online worlds using the power of the gaming industry.

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Mativision

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Enabling LIVE 360 & VR experiences since 2008

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Critical Pressure

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Critical Pressure is a virtual bio-pharmaceutical company that develops products to treat vascular dysfunction and shock.

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Bubblo

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Bubblo is an artificial Intelligence based virtual reality discovery app and marketing platform.

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Focus MRS

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Focus MRS is a remote platform combining 360 degree live streaming, AR, and VR to provide an immersive “In classroom” experience.

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Rescape Innovation

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Rescape Innovation is pioneering the use of Virtual Reality to solve challenges in Healthcare.

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Generic Robotics

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SimuTouch is the first general purpose clinical skills training platform.

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Cadscan

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The Cubik 3D Scanner has been designed to make 3D scanning as simple as possible for a fraction of the cost of other systems

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Prox & Reverie

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Prox & Reverie is a multi-reality experience company innovating new ways to bridge physical, digital and imagined worlds

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Gameway

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Gameway is the mobile gaming experience of the future.

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Native Robotics

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At Native Robotics we create smart and intuitive apps for industrial robots.

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Flicktek Ltd

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Gesture control for smartwatches, IoT and VR

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Blue Square Utilities

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Blue Square Utilities is an independent smart meter installation business servicing small-medium sized energy suppliers.

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Head Set

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Virtual reality training

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ImmVRse

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A Decentralised Hybrid VR Content Distribution Platform and Marketplace for VR Content Creators built on Ethereum Blockchain

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Oryx Entertainment

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Augmented, Virtual Reality for Web and Mobile

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MYCOM OSI

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MYCOM OSI provides deep telecom expertise and solutions in areas fundamental to network and service quality

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Earth 2

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Earth 2 is a platform where people can buy digital real estate.

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Brilliant Basics

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Brilliant Basics is a global digital product and customer experience studio.

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Sentireal

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At Sentireal, we create software and media platforms that turn mobile devices and headsets into smart assistants.

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ProReal

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ProReal has developed an avatar-based, virtual-world software platform.

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Teslasuit

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Teslasuit is a team of talented developers and designers, creating innovative products for XR and MedTech.

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Anthropics Technology

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Anthropics Technology is a research and development company that has created Zyler, virtual clothing try-on technology.

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Tammeka

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VR games development studio based in Ascot, UK

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Neopets

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Neopets is a virtual pet world where users own virtual pets and buy virtual items for them using virtual currencies.

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Coach-AI

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Coach develops a human-centric AI engine that enables developers to build human physical activities and motions into the digital world.

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Dual Good Health

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Using virtual reality to train more people how to save lives

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iiNDYVERSE

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Web3 Marketing Automation, Virtual Reality, NFT

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