Type Private Headquarters San Mateo, USA | Founded 2014 Website janusvr.com | |
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Key people James McCrae (Co-Founder)
Karan Singh (Co-Founder) | ||
JanusVR is a corporation based out of San Mateo, CA and Toronto, ON, founded by James McCrae and Karan Singh in December 2014. It develops software addressing the intersection of the internet and AR/VR.
JanusVR is an immersive web browsing and design platform. Named after Janus, the Roman God of passages, JanusVR re-imagines and extends web content into multi-dimensional spaces, interconnected by portals.
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Company
The founders of JanusVR come from the Dynamic Graphics Project, Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Development of JanusVR began in the middle of 2013, with early progress documented on the Oculus VR Rift Forum, and subsequently on the janusVR subreddit. In August 2015 JanusVR joined the Boost.VC accelerator program, and raised a Seed Series round with Lerer Hippeau Ventures as the lead investor in January 2015.
Products
The JanusVR platform comprises a suite of software that make it simple to create, share and experience spatially rich internet content. The suite includes: