Unity Technologies
The world’s leading platform for interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) and 2D content. Unity Technologies empowers creators across industries and around the world.
Building global solutions and partnerships, right here in Calgary.
Digital transformation is quickly becoming the largest driver of new solutions and technology investments among Calgary businesses. It’s projected that Calgary’s creative industries sector will spend $566 million on digital transformation from 2022 to 2024, and virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), AI systems and machine learning have been identified as key engines of growth.
There are over 60 companies working on video games and/or immersive media products and services. A 2019 Nordicity survey found that over 200 people were working in the video games and immersive media industry in Calgary – with 70 per cent of companies looking to hire roughly five people over the next year. The Calgary Game Developer’s Assocation (CGDA) boasts a headcount of over 850 members, the majority of which are ready to work talent.
Building global solutions and partnerships, right here in Calgary.
The world’s leading platform for interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) and 2D content. Unity Technologies empowers creators across industries and around the world.
By blending technology with human psychology, VizworX brings customers’ data to life using advanced technologies such as AR, VR, AI, IoT, biometrics, data visualization and geospatial systems.
A Canadian leader and award-winning XR development studio, focused on creating high-end immersive experiences. Their team was recently invited to Facebook head office to present two titles, USAY: Thunder, Writing on Stone and Finding Victor, to the AR/VR department.
ZeroKey has developed a transformational technology product for 3D millimetre level tracking. The ZeroKey team won the Pitch Comp at Samsung Developers Conference 2017 and were recently featured on Discovery Channel.
Alberta Innovates, a provincially funded research and development organization, has launched what it is calling a “first-of-its-kind” program focused on Alberta’s virtual, mixed and augmented-reality ecosystem for health innovation.
Red Iron Labs is a premier custom immersive experience solutions provider. Originally created as a video game company for virtual reality, in 2018 they expanded the company and began offering AR/VR/Gaming development services to all sectors.
A SaaS provider that matches digital technologies with capital project delivery. VEERUM’s Digital Twin Technology enables project teams to predict and resolve issues in the virtual world.
Highly awarded and publicly traded, DIRTT has been doing it right with technology since 2004. They are a global leader in building innovative and sustainable spaces.
"Alberta is surprisingly strong in AR/VR technology. It would seem like a strange sector to come out of oil and gas country, but as it turns out the type of architectural and industrial challenges that AR/VR is great at solving are also common in the oil and gas industry. Many Alberta AR/VR companies have built great industrial solutions that are now being broadly applied to AR/VR as a whole.
In Calgary, where ZeroKey is headquartered, we have a very strong and world-renowned academic community in the field of geomatics, which includes technologies related to positioning like GPS. This expertise is the whole reason ZeroKey exists today; without that background in positioning technologies we could have never developed the technology that we have."
Matt Lowe, CEO, ZeroKey
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