5Y News | GravityXR Closes Hundreds of Millions of RMB in Series A Funding to Advance Dedicated Chip for "XR Spatial Computing"
Create a brand-new world that blends the virtual and the real.
GravityXR, a spatial computing chip designer for XR (Extended Reality), recently announced the completion of its Series A financing round worth several hundred million RMB. Since its founding in September 2021, the company has now completed four funding rounds in total. The proceeds will support GravityXR's growth and development as it pursues further achievements in XR technology. This Series A round was led by Monolith, with participation from Ningbo Commerce & Industry Fund, China Merchants Venture Capital, and Haiding Capital. Existing investors miHoYo, Yaotu Capital, Tongge Venture Capital, Zhongyuan Capital, 37 Interactive Entertainment, and Sequoia Capital also followed on.
Previously, GravityXR's angel round was led by Gaorong Capital, with Sequoia Capital, IDG Capital, and GSR Ventures as co-investors. Its Pre-A round saw participation from Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group, Yaotu Capital, 5Y Capital, 37 Interactive Entertainment, Zhuiyuan Venture Capital, MiraclePlus, and Yuanyang Investment, with existing investors Gaorong and Sequoia making additional investments above their pro-rata. The Pre-A+ round was led by Tongge Venture Capital — a fund jointly established by Goertek, miHoYo, and 37 Interactive Entertainment — with co-investment from miHoYo, Zhongyuan Capital, Eastern Bell Capital, Eight Roads, Jianshi Capital, Ningbo Yongjiang Sci-Tech Innovation, and Ningbo Zhenhai Industrial Capital. Existing investors Yuanyang Investment, 37 Interactive Entertainment, and GSR Ventures also continued to participate.
Tong Ji, senior investment manager at 5Y Capital, said: "We believe XR devices and applications will gradually gain traction over the coming years. GravityXR's dedicated chips enable users to perceive their surroundings with minimal latency, which is critical for XR devices where user experience is paramount. We trust that a team with such deep global perspective and expertise can help accelerate the worldwide adoption of XR hardware."
GravityXR is a spatial computing chip design company focused on XR devices (AR glasses / VR headsets / MR headsets), dedicated to providing complete next-generation XR spatial computing technology solutions built around core chips, supported by hardware technology and algorithms.
In recent years, XR technology has steadily matured. High-resolution displays, precision sensors, and powerful integrated computing capabilities have all laid a solid technical foundation for the XR experience. Meanwhile, the maturing content ecosystem has provided crucial support for the industry's development. An increasing number of hardware, software, and content technology companies are leveraging their strengths to position themselves across the XR value chain, leading to a more rational distribution of industry resources and better satisfying user demands for immersion, comfort, interoperability, and affordability in XR.
Throughout this evolution, the importance of XR chips cannot be overstated. As the core component of XR devices, chip performance directly impacts user experience. As XR component technology advances and user expectations rise, the industry demands ever-greater computing power and more sophisticated algorithms from XR chips. More powerful processing capabilities, faster image rendering speeds, and lower power consumption remain critical technical challenges that XR chips must continuously overcome. Only through relentless innovation and breakthroughs can the industry meet user demands for the ultimate XR experience and drive sustained growth.
GravityXR conducts in-depth research into how chips affect the XR experience across image processing, display, perception, and virtual-real fusion. Ultimate visual experience demands extremely high display resolution, GPU performance, data transmission and processing, and image quality. MR based on VST (Video See Through) imposes even stricter requirements on camera image quality, spatial positioning, and 3D reconstruction. The shift toward new natural interaction paradigms has made hand gesture plus eye tracking essential. Balancing these multidimensional demands against device power constraints, GravityXR is building a chip that delivers the ultimate XR experience. This chip provides targeted performance optimization for XR-specific components (displays, perception sensors, etc.), offering low-latency real-time 4K and 120Hz image rendering, sensor data processing, and mixed reality interaction. Its proprietary algorithms not only reduce motion sickness from visual content, provide image correction capabilities, and enhance display quality, but also enable entirely new interaction modes for devices.
Prior to tape-out, GravityXR collaborated with major industry players to develop a system-level testing platform. This partnership enabled early validation of chip algorithms and architecture, demonstration of integrated chip functionality, and real-time VST effects. Additionally, the platform demonstrated data integration with host processors, proving the system's efficient data transmission and processing capabilities — thereby showcasing GravityXR's technical competence and innovation to prospective customers.
GravityXR will continue working with partners to drive technological innovation and advancement, constantly improving product performance and functionality. The company will also actively listen to customer feedback and needs, continuously optimizing and refining its products to meet diverse user requirements, while collaborating with more platforms and product solutions to further expand its influence.
GravityXR believes that XR technology aims to create an entirely new world fusing virtual and physical realities. This world will be human-centered, offering unprecedented experiences. XR technology will transcend spatial limitations, allowing us to summon objects and devices at will while elevating our perception, memory, and cognitive abilities to extraordinary levels. This will fundamentally transform human-computer interaction, enabling interaction that adapts completely to contextual needs — to the point where the interaction itself becomes imperceptible, delivering anytime, anywhere, ubiquitous experiences. GravityXR remains committed to putting user experience first, bringing users more realistic, immersive, and personalized ultimate sensory experiences in XR, allowing people to move freely between virtual and real worlds.
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