Somnium Space leads a 4M$ Series A Round at Lynx

Series A Funding round led by Somnium Space and Artur Sychov – founder and CEO of Somnium Space – joins the board of directors of the company.

Yesterday – in a Medium post – Somnium Space announced that they led a 4M$ Series A round at Lynx, the developer of a full featured Mixed Reality headset. The funding round was followed by early supporters of Lynx, with participation of other investors involved in the AR/VR field such as ex-Meta and Google engineers.

At Somnium Space we truly believe in the future of open and decentralized Metaverse which empowers its users. This includes, not only software, but also very importantly hardware. The Lynx team led by Stan has created an extraordinary AR / VR device (Lynx-r) with openness in mind which will change and revolutionize the way we all think and interact with this market category. I am very happy to support this company and believe that together we will push the boundaries and potential of the VR/AR industry forward.
Artur Sychov, Founder & CEO of Somnium Space.

As Artur points out, Somnium Space believes in a an open and decentralized Metaverse. During his presentations at the Somnium Connect Conference in Prague last year, it became clear he strongly believes this can only be achieved if we have alternatives in the hardware market, as the Big Tech companies currently maintain closed ecosystems and aim at locking users into their visions and monetization models.

Stan Larroque, creator of Lynx was there, in Prague, and now the news is out that the cooperation between Somnium Space and Lynx is deepening, with Artur Sychov even joining the board of directors at Lynx.

We have this opportunity right here to create the European Champion of Mixed Reality with our work at Lynx, supported by a vibrant community of users and developers desperate to see alternatives to Big Tech companies products and their closed ecosystems. What’s the point of creating a European Metaverse if the underlying platform, the door we use to access it, remains in the hands of the same big players with their damaging business models?
Stan Larroque, founder and CEO of Lynx

Stan Larroque and Artur Sychov on stage at Somnium Connect yearly conference (December 2021)

Lynx Mixed Reality

Lynx Mixed Reality was founded 2 years ago by Stan Larroque. Thanks to a dedicated team of innovators in electronics, software, optics and hardware, they’ve developed the Lynx-R1 headset, which features all the bells and whistles you expect from state of the art Metaverse hardware including large field of view, spatial audio, hand-tracking, high quality 6DoF and color pass-through for Augmented and Virtual Reality applications, built on top of Qualcomm XR2 technology.