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New Value Capital Investment Enterprise Huanchuang Technology Officially Enters VR/AR with 6DOF Handle

2023/09/07

In September last year, Camsense Technology completed a C9 round of financing of nearly 1 million yuan, led by Tongge Venture Capital, followed by HTC's industrial fund and Shenzhen Zhizhicheng Group under Shenzhen State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and New Value Capital exclusively led the pre-A2017 round in 2, and is currently carrying out a new round of financing planning.

Sensor algorithm fusion drives development

Camsense was founded in 2014 and is committed to becoming a leading global computer vision spatial positioning technology company.

Since its establishment in 14 years, Camsense has always insisted on innovation as the main artery of enterprise development, and after years of continuous cultivation and exploration, Camsense has successfully built an industry solution system with "visual spatial positioning technology" as the core, LiDAR, XR spatial positioning system, and high-precision positioning system as the carrier, providing scenario-based customized products and technical service support for robotics, VR/AR, industrial medical and other industries. From 2014 to 2016, in the early days of Camsense, Camsense has applied its technology to TV somatosensory devices and VR/AR fields, providing TV brands with somatosensory game kits that provide cameras + peripherals. However, with the overall development of somatosensory devices and VR/AR market into a bottleneck, "Camsense" began to quickly switch to the fast lane of smart home in 2017, based on the previous precipitation in spatial positioning technology, the company chose lidar as the main direction of the company, and became the industry's leading supplier in just over 3 years.
At present, the company's independent research and development and production of lidar shipments have climbed to the first place in the industry; The 6DOF VR interactive controller based on Camsense core algorithm has also successfully entered the stage of mass production, providing XR interactive positioning technology solutions for related VR industry customers. With this series of technological innovation achievements, Camsense Technology has also been successfully selected as a national "specialized, specialized and new" small giant enterprise in 22 years, and completed a C1 round of financing of nearly 2021 million yuan, and its influence in the industry is increasing day by day. "Since the beginning of 1, we have seen some changes in the market, such as the launch of Meta Quest 2 and <>, which has brought better experience and more affordable prices, which has also strengthened our confidence that we can develop towards VR/AR," said Zhou Kun, founder of Camsense Technology.

With the continuous development of the hard technology industry, technological innovation will continue to empower the underlying architecture, and as technology production capacity gradually penetrates into the industry, Camsense will fully mobilize its own technical resource advantages to help more partners create a more digital and intelligent location service scenario experience.

Deep focus on VR/AR field

 

Since May 2021, domestic VR/AR manufacturers have successively launched new products, and the pace of iteration has accelerated significantly. Camsense chose to start from the interactive technology field it is good at and attack the VR/AR track again.

In terms of interactive technology, "Camsense" chose to cut into a more subdivided track - 6DOF controller. 6DOF is a key word in VR. "DOF" stands for "degrees of freedom", the additional number represents how many different axes to track, and 6DOF represents three major axes (translation) and three auxiliary axes (rotation). 3DOF VR limits the use of a set of rotating or panning devices, and the rotation and panning functions cannot be implemented at the same time, while the 6DOF experience can satisfy both rotation and panning.

In the past, most of the lower-priced VR technologies enabled 3DOF because it was easier and less expensive to track rotational motion than to track translational motion. As users continue to pay attention to the "immersive" VR experience, 6DOF will also be used on most VR devices. As early as 2020, Camsense launched the VR controller kit "Camsense XR" based on vision and inertial sensing positioning technology, which can realize VR/AR monocular vision 6DOF tracking. Camsense XR adopts a "visual tracking + inertial guidance" sensing scheme, which can be compensated by inertial sensing when the handle is outside the camera's tracking range, and combined with algorithms to achieve stable and smooth controller tracking effect.

At present, Camsense mainly provides 6DOF algorithm technology and controller hardware for terminal brand customers of VR all-in-one machines or PCs and VR products, plus its own factory production advantages, which can provide customers with a complete 6DOF hardware R&D production line.

In the VR/AR field, Camsense is both a pioneer and a deep participant. Camsense Technology has locked in the VR/AR field when it was not hot, and has returned to the VR/AR track after major manufacturers have entered the productization. Zhou Kun said that at present, the productization of "Camsense" in the VR/AR field has just begun, and he does not dare to talk about the concept of market share for the time being.

Fortunately, although the VR/AR industry is large, it is not common for companies like Camsense to focus on providing 6DOF controller technology. Moreover, the downstream customer concentration of the 6DOF controller is very high, and the main players include the familiar Meta, SONY, Pico and so on. Zhou Kun also revealed that Camsense's first customer cooperation product will be officially released and put into mass production in September, which will help Camsense lay a more solid market share foundation in the future.