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NOLO VR (Chinese: 凌宇智控) is a Chinese technology company founded by Daoning Zhang in April 2015 in Beijing, China. It focuses in the field of mobile VR/AR interaction. In 2017, NOLO VR released its first VR product, NOLO CV1, for 6DoF positional tracking of mobile VR.

History
In 2015, the NOLO VR dev team conceived and patented their core technology PolarTraq, a spatial positional tracking system which fuses optic, acoustic and radio signals. Following a Pre-A round funding, NOLO VR initially announced the prototype of their mobile VR positional tracking kit, dubbed Cobb, to the Chinese VR media.

NOLO VR began to draw global attention since November, 2016. In January 2017, Cobb made its first public appearance at CES held in Las Vegas, which had received tremendous response in VR industry. NOLO VR launched their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter right after CES 2017, announcing its customer version product of Cobb - NOLO CV1, which allowed backers to play both mobile VR and Steam VR games with mobile headsets and smartphones. The campaign successfully met the funding goal within hours. One month later, NOLO VR added desktop VR support for NOLO CV1. The campaign was officially ended in March 2017 with over $200,000 (USD) funded. NOLO VR finished the mass production as scheduled and began international delivery for the Kickstarter backers in June, 2017.

After operating quitely since June 2017, NOLO HOME beta, a mobile VR application platform based on Android, was officially released by NOLO VR in January 2018, aiming to provide 6DoF phone-rendered VR contents for NOLO CV1 users. In May 2018, NOLO VR announced a $10M Series A financing led by BlueRun Ventures, followed by Lotus Capital. On June 10, 2018, NOLO VR launched the full version of its NOLO HOME content platform, adding the global payment system, the Gear VR support and more NOLO compatible game titles.

NOLO CV1
NOLO CV1 is a VR/AR motion tracking kit designed to be used with all kinds of mobile VR headsets, like Samsung Gear VR and Cardboard style headset, offering 6 degree of freedom positional tracking for handheld controllers and headset. In addition, NOLO VR added desktop VR support on Feburary, 2017. It consists of one base station, one headset marker, and two controllers. NOLO CV1 was originally launched on Kickstarter of $99 (USD), but the units are now available from Amazon at a price of $199 (USD).


 * Base Station: The base station has a 100 degree field of view, and a tracking radius up to 5 meters. It emits the infrared pulses and the untrasound waves that can be received by the headset marker and the controllers. With the internal battery, a single charge can keep it running for 4 hours.


 * Headset Marker: Besides enabling the head tracking via the sphere on the top, the headset marker also calculates the tracking data with the built-in chip and sends them direct to the phone or the PC.


 * Controller: The controller provides 6DoF tracking for both hands in VR. Each controller features a touchpad, a trigger, a menu button, a system button, a pair button and two grip buttons for the input. It can run for 7 hours with a single charge.

NOLO HOME
NOLO HOME is a VR application store for android smartphones, distributing quality VR contents that support NOLO VR 6DoF tracking. The contents support both Samsung Gear VR and Cardboard style headsets. NOLO VR has also implemented a global payment system in NOLO HOME.

Homido
In January 2017, NOLO VR partnered with Homido VR to bundle the NOLO CV1 with the Homido V2 headset on Kickstarter.

Pimax VR
In Feburary 2017, NOLO VR worked with PiMax VR to provide 6DoF positional tracking for PiMax 4K PC VR headset.

Media Kobo Inc.
NOLO VR and Media Kobo Inc. announce agreement on April 2, 2018, to expand consumer market in Japan based on the NOLO hardware and software product – NOLO CV1 and NOLO HOME.

Deepoon VR
In May 2018, NOLO VR partnered with Deepoon VR to provide 6DoF postional tracking for Deepoon E3B PC VR headset and started selling Deepoon E3B & NOLO CV1 bundle on JD.com and Tmall.com.

Inlife-Handnet
In June 2018, NOLO VR partnered with Inlife-Handnet to provide 6DoF positional tracking for Viulux V8 PC VR headset and started selling Viulux V8 & NOLO CV1 bundle on JD.com and Tmall.com.

iQiYi VR

In June 2018, NOLO VR partnered with iQiYi VR to provide 6DoF positional tracking for Xiaoyueyue Plus mobile VR headset and started selling Xiaoyueyue Plus & NOLO CV1 bundle on JD.com and Tmall.com.

Metro VR Studios
On June 21, 2018, Metro VR Studios announced its internaltional product launch and distribution partnership with NOLO VR, including Orion 13™ and Quest of the Pirate King™.