YCS13· OtherMeta
Augmented reality glasses.
Founders
Not read from YC yet; the weekly run fills these in.
Same space
Competitors
Closest in what they build, same category.
WavyW17Experience music and art in augmented realityShared: augmented realityAcquired
INKHUNTERS18Augmented Reality mobile app to try and buy tattoosShared: augmented realityInactive
Scope ARS15Scope AR is the leading provider of User Guided Augmented Reality…Shared: augmented realityInactive
PengramW19Indoor navigation through augmented reality on your phone.Shared: augmented realityInactive
Adjacent
Overlapping tags, a different niche.
Escher RealityS17The backend for Augmented Reality.Shared: augmented realityAcquired
VizeraLabsS14Augmented reality through projectorsShared: augmented realityInactive
PhiarS18We are developing a revolutionary AI-powered augmented reality…Shared: augmented realityAcquired
miruW18Experience any piece of furniture in ARShared: augmented realityInactive
PickleW25Where your life context becomes understanding.Shared: augmented realityActive
Also from S13
Batchmates in Summer 2013.
ApptimizeS13Apptimize lets mobile teams innovate faster to create an amazing user…Acquired
AudoboxS13Audobox is a developer and user friendly tool for in-app feedback.Inactive
Bop.fmS13Canonical permalinks for songs.Acquired
CasetextS13We make the world's laws free and understandable.Acquired
CoreOSS13Open source tools of modern distributed systems.Acquired
DatarankS13Making sense of social data. (Acquired by SimplyMeasured.)Acquired
Across fru.dev
About Meta
Meta offers users a total augmented reality (AR) experience: - See, create, and interact with virtual objects and apps inserted in the real environment - Display with wearable glasses - Control with hand gestures Meta's goal is to lead the next evolution of personal computing through augmented reality, replacing desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones with a more natural-to-use system set entirely in a pair of glasses.
San Francisco, CA, USA; San Mateo, CA, USA
Meta: questions
Which YC batch was Meta in?
Meta was in Y Combinator's Summer 2013 batch (S13).
Is Meta still active?
Y Combinator lists Meta as inactive.
Where is Meta based?
Meta lists San Francisco, CA, USA; San Mateo, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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