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JanusVR

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{{ infobox company
| name = JanusVR
| logo = JanusVR_Logo.png
| type = Private
| location_city = San Mateo, California
| location_country = USA
| foundation = 2014
| key_people = James McCrae (Co-founder)
Karan Singh (Co-founder)
| website = {{URL|http://janusvr.com/}}
}}

JanusVR is a corporation based in San Mateo, California, and Toronto, Ontario, that develops immersive web browsing software.^[1] It was founded by James McCrae and Karan Singh in December 2014. Named after Janus, the Roman God of passages, JanusVR portrays web content in multi-dimensional spaces interconnected by portals.

Company

The founders of JanusVR come from the Dynamic Graphics Project, Computer Science at the University of Toronto.^[2]

Development of JanusVR began in the middle of 2013,

with early progress documented on the Oculus VR Rift Forum, and subsequently on the [https://www.reddit.com/r/janusVR/ janusVR subreddit].

In August 2015 JanusVR joined the Boost.VC accelerator program, and raised a Seed Series round with

Lerer Hippeau Ventures ^[3] as the lead investor in January 2016.

Products

The JanusVR platform comprises a suite of software that make it simple to create, share and experience spatially rich internet content.

The suite includes:

JanusVR: a standalone web authoring and browsing tool for creating spatially rich web content. All existing web content can be viewed, transformed or re-interpreted interactively within JanusVR for desktop VR hardware.

JanusWeb: a webGL-based version of JanusVR, viewable through existing web browsers, with support for mobile VR hardware.

Presence Server: open-source server software, forming the social and collaborative foundation of JanusVR.

JanusVR markup + javascript: content in JanusVR builds on existing web markup and protocols, augmented by an XML like markup and javascript, to explicitly control content in space-time.

Exporters: comprise tools to export content from popular modeling, animation and gaming software like Unity, Unreal, Blender, Maya and Sketch-up into JanusVR.

Vesta: a free web-hosting and content-sharing community integrated with JanusVR.

References

1. ^{{cite news|last1=Cervantes|first1=Edgar|title=Best VR browsers – immerse yourself into the web|url=http://vrsource.com/best-vr-browsers-immerse-web-5538/|publisher=VR Source|date=October 24, 2016}}
2. ^{{cite news|last1=Anderson|first1=Scott|title=Don’t Click That Link — Walk Through That Door!|url=http://magazine.utoronto.ca/blogs/eureka/don%E2%80%99t-click-that-link-walk-through-that-door-janus-vr-3d-web-browsing-james-mccrae-scott-anderson/|publisher=University of Toronto Magazine|date=Spring 2014}}
3. ^{{cite news|title=JanusVR: Reddit and Yahoo reincarnate for the 3D web|url=https://medium.com/lerer-hippeau-ventures/janusvr-reddit-and-yahoo-reincarnate-for-the-3d-web-7a140530cf9e#.rn2007jqw|publisher=medium.com|date=July 28, 2016}}

External links

JanusVR website
[https://web.janusvr.com/ JanusVR webGL browser]
[https://vesta.janusvr.com/ Vesta - WebVR creation and distribution]

2 : Virtual reality companies|Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area

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