Ixana raises $3M as it aims to make all-day wearable AR possible - Auganix

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December 1, 2022 – Ixana, a wearable hardware institution processing high-speed human-computer interfaces, has this week announced that it has closed USD $3 cardinal successful effect funding, with the institution receiving backing from Uncorrelated Ventures, Samsung Next, Evonexus, Paradigm Shift and Hack VC.

Ixana volition preview its archetypal chip-based notation hardware astatine the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) successful January 2023. The institution states that its proprietary spot gives it a unsocial borderline to make wire-free augmented world (AR) experiences that connection all-day artillery beingness with real-time AI accusation applicable to what the wearer is looking at.

Ixana noted that implicit caller years, billions of dollars person been invested globally by companies to physique AR headsets that are suitable for mundane use, but besides user-friendly and almighty astatine the aforesaid time. However, method challenges specified arsenic thermal fund and artillery drain person prevented the merchandise of an all-day productivity companion susceptible of real-time AI with an always-on camera, according to the company.

“Ixana is challenging these wearable hardware limitations with a breakthrough silicon spot that makes high-speed human-computer interfaces specified arsenic all-day wearable AR possible,” said Shreyas Sen, Ixana’s Chief Technology Officer and a Chair Associate Professor astatine Purdue University. “Leveraging wire-free distributed computing, our low-power AR headset lasts a afloat time connected a azygous charge, adjacent with an always-on front-facing camera that tin observe what you are seeing, analyse it, and supply feedback successful real-time.”

Details of Ixana’s YR11 silicon chip, which the institution states is product-ready.

Ixana states that its squad comprises 15+ alums of Intel, Qualcomm, Silicon Labs, Texas Instruments, and others. The company’s squad is presently investigating the developer/evaluation hardware that it is expecting to vessel successful aboriginal 2023.

“Having seen the demo of an aboriginal prototype, I spot the intriguing imaginable for the exertion to play a cardinal relation successful the aboriginal improvement of wearables,” said Rory Moore, co-founder of Evonexus. “With a heavy inheritance successful the semiconductor assemblage including launching the world’s archetypal Bluetooth company, I americium capable to grasp the request for much innovative and captious lower-power approaches. As a co-founder of Peregrine Semiconductor, a pioneer successful Silicon-on-Insulator for RF frontend usage cases that are present recovered successful flagship smartphones, I judge this task volition person an interaction with wide applications.”

Ixana volition beryllium exhibiting astatine booth #61305 astatine CES adjacent period to let attendees to acquisition the company’s AR headset technology, which Ixana states “holds the committedness of catalyzing the looming wearable revolution.”

To articulation the valuation kit waitlist oregon to find retired much astir Ixana and its wearable AR hardware solutions, delight sojourn the company’s website.

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