Arcturus raises $5M for holographic imaging in games and entertainment

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 6, 2021
Updated June 20, 2025
3 min

Arcturus today announced it has raised $5 million in funding for tools that enable developers to create realistic holographic characters based on recorded video.

Bitkraft Ventures led the round, with participation from leaders in the sports, telecom, gaming, and music space. Backers include HBSE Ventures, NTT Docomo Ventures, Build Ventures, Riot Games cofounder Marc Merrill, and Atlantic Records CEO Craig Kallman.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.