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Live in Orange stores in Slovakia
Nine years of world firsts, and the work before them
Where we have been
2026
- Four US patents granted Freedom to operate confirmed across 23 patent families.
- MATSUMI, the most human AI Unveiled at AWE. Our AI goes live in Orange stores in Bratislava, Košice and Banská Bystrica.
- First contract with the European Space Agency NEO-XR brings holographic co-presence to ESA training, planning and operations, with Imperative Space.
- REGIOSTARS 2026 Winner of the European Commission's award for the best EU-funded projects, for AI Holopresence with Pavol Jozef Šafárik University. The only Slovak finalist.
- New European projects 6G-CARE in healthcare, UNIFY (top 6 of 100+ proposals), HoloHarmony for music education and a holographic classroom at TUKE.
- Holographic displays with Looking Glass MATSUMI steps onto Looking Glass holographic displays for offices, clinics, classrooms, lobbies and retail.
- An AI companion for Earth observation MATSUMI turns raw satellite data into natural conversation.
REGIOSTARS 2026
NEO-XR, ESA
AI in Orange stores
US 11,783,531 B22025
- CEO welcomes new employees New colleagues at Deutsche Telekom are greeted by their CEO as a hologram.
- Top 10 result of Europe's 6G programme The dialer integration is selected among the key achievements of the 6G Smart Networks and Services programme.
- Six new patents filed AI 3D completion, enhancement during the call and multi-party holographic co-presence, in the US and EU.
- XR cybersecurity training TORA AI training suite on the Meta Horizon Store.
Slush, Helsinki
Holographic instructor
MWC Barcelona2024
- Holographic meetings with Telefónica and NVIDIA Shown at MWC Barcelona over Telefónica 5G Edge and NVIDIA Maxine.
- Hologram from a phone dialer Holographic calls inside a standard smartphone dialer with Telefónica and Ericsson, over the IMS Data Channel.
- Live on o2 Germany's edge network Deployed on Telefónica o2 Germany's EDGE for automotive and construction clients.
- First XR trainings Holographic instructors for InoBat battery production. Partnership with Hololight.
- Forbes Top 10 Women in Startups Maria Vircikova is named by Forbes.
- Selected by Apple for the Vision Pro launch Unveiled at WWDC in June 2023, Apple Vision Pro goes on sale on 2 February 2024, and Apple features MATSUKO in its launch PR. On Vision Pro from day one.
- Network APIs with Microsoft Joint tests of Microsoft Azure Programmable Connectivity with Telefónica and Orange.
Apple Vision Pro
MWC, Telefónica × NVIDIA
TORA AI, XR training2023
- 6G-XR MATSUKO starts work in Horizon Europe's flagship 6G project for XR services.
- First transatlantic 5G holographic meeting Bell Canada, Verizon and Vodafone meet as holograms across the Atlantic with the 5G Future Forum.
- Apple Vision Pro labs Chosen to build in Apple's developer labs in London and Munich, and invited to meet the Vision Pro team in Cupertino.
- A head of government on a hologram call Bavaria's Minister-President Markus Söder meets the Head of Wayra Germany as a hologram at o2 Telefónica Germany's 25th network anniversary in Munich, powered by MATSUKO.
- Seal of Excellence The European Commission recognises HoloWork with a Seal of Excellence, one of seven for MATSUKO.
- First annual licences: Goldbeck Goldbeck CEE takes ten annual MATSUKO licences for design teamwork, client showcases and training, starting with its director as a hologram.
- On Telefónica's edge and in its showrooms MATSUKO runs on Telefónica's edge network and in its B2B showrooms in Madrid, Barcelona and Munich.
Streaming holograms with Telefónica
HoloWork
Goldbeck CEE
Telefónica showrooms2022
- Real time, from one iPhone The 3D reconstruction now streams live from a single iPhone camera.
- Deutsche Telekom hubraum The MATSUKO pitch wins the audience vote at Deutsche Telekom's incubator.
- Winner, SXSW Pitch Extended Reality & Immersive Technology category, Austin, Texas.
- Tour de France The race director appears as a lifelike hologram, streamed over Orange 5G into fans' AR glasses during the race.
- Holograms on Meta Quest Debut of holographic presence for Oculus Quest 2 at AWE, Santa Clara.
- Europe's four largest operators Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone implement holographic presence as a simple phone call.
- Snapdragon Spaces with Qualcomm Qualcomm showcases our real-time holographic meetings on Snapdragon Spaces: grab, move and place live holograms around you on smart glasses. See the use case ↗
Hologram on an iPad
Promo shoot, 2022
Real time, 2022
Qualcomm Snapdragon Spaces2020
- From video to 3D MATSUKO reconstructs a person in 3D from ordinary 2D video.
- L'Oréal accelerator at Station F MATSUKO joins the L'Oréal programme at Station F in Paris, mentored by Modiface, L'Oréal's AR and AI company.
Video to 3D, 2020
Station F, Paris2019
- Station F, Paris MATSUKO moves into Station F, the world's largest startup campus, and starts pre-sales with its first customers.
- Seal of Excellence for HoloMe The European Commission awards its Seal of Excellence to HoloMe, realistic human holograms created and streamed in real time. The first of seven for MATSUKO.
Seal of Excellence, European Commission2018
- NVIDIA Inception Accepted into NVIDIA's global programme for AI startups, and through to the semi-final pitch day of the Inception Awards at GTC Europe.
- AI for skin care, with Symrise The 3D SymSkin Analyzer, the first AI-powered B2B skincare tool: neural networks and computer vision read the health of the skin.
- A 3D face from one photo, for NIVEA For Beiersdorf, the maker of NIVEA, AI rebuilds a 3D face mesh from a single photo to target personalised skin care. The first step towards holograms from one camera.
- ESET's android mascot An AI mascot that reads visitors' facial expressions and movements, and guides them through the brand with an interactive quiz.
- From one photo to 3D The first 3D reconstruction of a face from a single 2D image.
- AI research with Eidos Montréal R&D cooperation with the Square Enix studio on artificial intelligence and machine learning for games.
- Real expressions in virtual worlds, with Uraniom Human 3D video capture puts a player's real face and expressions on their game character.
3D face from one photo
Photo to 3D, 20182017
- Founded in Košice A game engineer who led technology on Assassin's Creed and an AI and human–robot interaction researcher set out to send a real person as a hologram, from one camera.
Matus & Maria2012–16
- Before MATSUKO The founding team builds interactive 3D, AR and AI experiences for brands and public institutions, including Roche, Michelin and Ubisoft's best-selling games.
- Machine Empathy Maria's PhD at the Technical University of Košice builds computational models of empathy for social robots, 2014.
- ASIMO in Slovakia The first show with Honda's ASIMO humanoid robot in Slovakia, with Honda Belgium, at the 2013 Night of Researchers.
- Dinosaurs at Zoo de Bordeaux The world's first interactive augmented reality experience with dinosaurs. The raptors react to sounds, follow visitors and look for shade in summer, with behaviour supervised by palaeontologists.
- The city of tomorrow, with Le Public Système Touchscreen exhibitions where a virtual city comes alive for children, exploring mobility, energy, environment and communications, for Technological Industries France.
- Michelin at the Paris Motor Show An interactive game merges live camera video of children with the Michelin mascot, 2012.
- A holographic penguin at Hamleys The world's first interactive 3D object that needs no glasses: the penguin talks with children, recognises speech and objects, tells jokes and plays games.
ASIMO, 2013
Social robots
Zoo de Bordeaux, Hamleys, Michelin
Le Public Système