Upskill Is the Coolest AR Startup You Haven’t Heard of Yet
Inside the GE- and Boeing-backed augmented reality startup powering headsets from Vuzix and ODG to Google Glass Enterprise.
In mid-2010, the US military was looking to develop new head-up display technology for soldiers in the field. A company called Battlefield Telecommunications Systems (BTS) was tasked as the government's software provider for biometric force predictions, meaning real-time data displayed to a soldier's headset to indicate whether the person in front of them is a friend or foe.
The startup now creates software for companies like Boeing, Coca Cola, and GE, boasting more than $28 million in venture capital (VC) funding. That includes money from Boeing and GE Ventures, which have now bought into Upskill's future.
Skylight, Upskill's industrial AR platform, is deployed in production across an array of fieldwork, heavy manufacturing, and warehousing environments. The technology augments workers' experiences with custom voice and gesture-driven apps, and provides HD audio and video feeds for a first-person view into everything from field service training to constructing jet engines.
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