Media Machines lands a pile of funding
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Sep 042007
Media Machines makes a 3d plugin specifically designed to be embedded in webpages and allow you to share 3d environments with others. One of the key movers behind it is Tony Parisi, who has a long history with VRML technology. Among other things, you can import SketchUp models into their 3d scenes.
They just landed $9.4m in funding, and their website says they’re hiring “virtual world system” folks.
The interesting thing about this, of course, is that here’s something that could be a “universal client” for web-based 3d worlds. Media Machines doesn’t seem to have a horse in the server race. Yet, anyway.
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[…] Raph picked up on Media Machines‘ recent $9.4M A-round with prestigious VC firm Mohr Davidow. I’ve downloaded their plugin and seem to have a talent for breaking it (or crashing my Firefox), but the company is young and I look forward to seeing where they go. […]
[…] Machines has landed $9.4 Million in series A funding (thanks Raph) to continue development of their browser-based 3D tools. Expanding upon the pre-existing VRML […]