Tag: Cimagine

OurCrowd portfolio company Cimagine was featured in The Times of Israel, an English-language news website covering Israel, the region & the Jewish world. Cimagine hopes to boost sales and increase consumer confidence by providing a mobile platform on which to visualize merchandise three dimensionally in their intended locations. When shopping for clothes, most consumers insist on trying them on before buying — but that hasn’t usually been an option when shopping for furniture. Now it is — except that, instead of buying a sofa and having it delivered to see how it looks, consumers can use technology by Israel’s Cimagine to virtually visualize how a piece of furniture will fit in with their décor. At last week’s Augmented World Expo in Silicon Valley, Cimagine unveiled a new version of its augmented-reality shopping platform — a system that lets users virtually “furnish” an empty room from an online catalog using their mobile device. . Cimagine raised $389,071 from OurCrowd investors in July 2014. Read more on The Times of...

Leading technology news website, The Next Web, featured OurCrowd portfolio company Cimagine. The company hopes to boost sales and increase consumer confidence by providing a mobile platform on which to visualize merchandise three dimensionally in their intended locations. Israeli augmented reality startup Cimagine Media has announced a tie up with Shop Direct, the company behind online retail brands including Very.co.uk and Littlewoods.com. The deal will allow visitors to those sites to see what thousands of products will look like in their homes using markerless augmented reality (AR). Cimagine’s technology scans your room then places a 3D model of the item you’re interested into the environment. You can them reposition it where you like and walk around to get a look at the different angles. Cimagine raised $360,000 from OurCrowd investors in July 2014. Read more on The Next...

OurCrowd portfolio company Cimagine was featured in Bloomberg News, a premier site for top headlines on international business news, world markets, global economy, finance and politics. Cimagine hopes to boost sales and increase consumer confidence by providing a mobile platform on which to visualize merchandise three dimensionally in their intended locations. The online-shopping software developed by Cimagine allows people to walk around their homes with a mobile device, and see how a sofa or coffee table would look in each room. The system combines live imagery, taken with a smartphone or iPad, with 3-D pictures of furniture to present a realistic recreation of your living room with stuff you may or may not be able to afford.   Cimagine raised $360,000 from OurCrowd investors in July 2014. Read more on Bloomberg...