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Kinicho have joined five other businesses as the first cohort of Augmentor, a new European mentoring programme to support next generation world-class virtual, augmented and mixed reality startups. Supported by the Digital Catapult Centre and SeedCamp, the London-based programme will run for ten-weeks with the six selected businesses receiving intensive support, mentorship and masterclasses to help them get to the next stage of their business. 

To support the six businesses, the programme has established a panel of respected industry figures in VR and AR, including HTC Vive Europe’s Product Head, Graham Breen, Blippar’s EMEA Commercial Director, Mikela Eskenazi, and Digital Catapult’s new Immersive Fellow, Mel Slater.  Other companies supplying mentors include HTC, Microsoft, Samsung, Nexus and PWC with further research support from leading UK academics in the field of immersive technology.

Garry Haywood, CEO of Kinicho said of being selected to join Augmentor: “This is great opportunity for our company, and a welcome validation of the ingenuity and imagination that the team has put in to making our innovation a reality. It would normally be expected that a technology like ours would emerge from research department of world class brand leader like Dolby or Google, so for us to receive this recognition feels like a major achievement.”Kinicho are developing a new approach to delivering 3D Audio for headphone use in VR and other immersive applications. 

Stefan Kazassoglou, Kinicho’s CTO said “our goal is to make virtual audio in headphones as genuine as sound in the real world, so joining Augmentor connects us right into the heart of the European immersive tech industry. It’s such a great opportunity.”