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| Industry | Technology, Software, Developer platforms |
|---|---|
| Founded | Aubervilliers, Paris, France, (1999) |
| Headquarters | |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Bruno Uzzan (CEO) |
| Products | D’Fusion Suite, D’Fusion For Adobe Flash, D’Fusion |
Number of employees | 90 [1] |
| Website | www.t-immersion.com |
Total Immersion was an augmented reality company based in Suresnes, France. [2] The company maintained offices in Europe, North America, and Asia and became defunct in 2014.
Total Immersion was founded in 1999 in Aubervilliers, France by current CEO, Bruno Uzzan, and former general director Valentin Lefèvre. Their headquarters were in Suresnes, France. As the company grew, Total Immersion established their first international office in San Francisco, California in the United States. After settling their American branch closer to clientele in Los Angeles, [3] they had offices in London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo with over 90 employees [4] in their 5 international offices. The company quietly went defunct in 2014 after a supposed intellectual property sale by CEO Bruno Uzzan.
Community: In June 2010 it was announced at the very first Augmented Reality convention ever held, that Total Immersion had created a community logo in attempt to urge a creation of shared standards and a communications framework. This collective, participative process was aimed at advancing uniformity and organization in the world of Augmented Reality users so that the technological community and new members could recognize the logo immediately. [5]
Total Immersion provided augmented reality projects for the following notable clients:
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