The herd of augmented reality cloud startups that emerged in 2018 have been hunted to near extinction, with Google-backed Ubiquity6 the latest to move from an independent entity to a wholly-owned asset. On Monday, the company revealed that it has been acquired by Discord, the seemingly ubiquitous chat platform for gamers.
“The time is over for Unity,” Ubiquity6 CEO Anjney Midha says. “It’s just not the future.” Even though 2019 was a rough year for augmented reality startups, Ubiquity6 remains ambitious as one of the better-capitalized players in the space. In 2018, the startup closed $…
Ubiquity6 is launching its Display.land app on iOS and Android so that people can capture the real world, augment it with virtual creations, and share it.
