OXR

08/28/2026

In a full-circle moment, Clinical Associate Professor Rebecca Quintana’s former student Chiao Lin returned to her class to demonstrate technology he and his team developed after taking her course on XR and education. Quintana’s teaching played a role in Lin developing OXR, an award-winning startup bringing new possibilities to extended reality and education. Read the full story: https://myumi.ch/bDDy6

08/19/2026

While every startup races toward AI, two UMSI grads are building a platform that brings educators and learners closer together. And they’ve just signed a licensing deal with the university that trained them.

Chiao Lin and Anhua Wu met in a UMSI classroom. Now, their company Mixel Studio has entered into an agreement with the University of Michigan to bring its patent-pending mixed-reality platform, OXR, to market. Mixel Studio’s flagship technology enables a single teacher to guide an entire classroom through an immersive lesson at once.

What started as a passion project has grown into an eight-person company backed by multiple investors. As most startups are focused on automation, Wu says they’re headed the other way: “We really want to enhance that human-to-human interaction.”

Read their full story — link in comments.

08/06/2026

Mixel Studio was honored to lead an AR lecture and hands-on OXR workshop for Tamkang University’s Nomad Studio at Columbia University GSAPP.

Architecture students explored how OXR can transform existing 3D models into immersive spatial presentations, while faculty from Columbia GSAPP, Parsons, and NYIT discussed its potential for architectural education, remote design reviews, and cross-institutional collaboration.

Special thanks to Professor Jenny T.Y. Ling for making this meaningful exchange possible. We look forward to helping architecture students and educators connect, present, and collaborate beyond physical and geographic boundaries.

NEW YORK — Aug 5th — Mixel Studio founder and CEO Chiao Lin led an augmented reality lecture and hands-on workshop on OXR, the company’s no-code spatial presentation platform, for visiting architecture students from Tamkang University at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture,...

08/02/2026

We were honored to welcome OCAC Deputy Minister 李妍慧 Yen Hui Lee, representatives from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago, and Taiwanese American community leaders to Mixel Studio at the University of Michigan.

Angela Kujava, Managing Director of the Desai Accelerator, opened the visit by welcoming our guests and introducing the accelerator. Our CEO, Chiao Lin, then shared Mixel Studio’s entrepreneurial journey and introduced OXR. Following the presentation, the delegation put on mixed-reality headsets and experienced OXR firsthand.

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Taiwanese officials and community leaders experienced Mixel Studio’s OXR mixed-reality platform and learned about the company’s entrepreneurial journey in Michigan. ANN ARBOR, Michigan — July 31, 2026 — Mixel Studio Inc., a University of Michigan–founded mixed-reality technology company, w...

07/23/2026

We’re excited to share that OXR, has secured an investment from Union Heritage Ventures and joined the firm’s portfolio. This marks our third institutional backing, following investments from the University of Michigan’s Zell Founders Fund through the Desai Accelerator and MSU Red Cedar Ventures through the Conquer Accelerator.

“We are especially proud to be backed by an investment firm whose values align so closely with our own,” said Chiao Lin, co-founder and CEO of Mixel Studio. “At Mixel Studio, our goal has never been to build technology simply for the sake of innovation. We want to create technology that is accessible, human-centered, and capable of making a meaningful, positive impact on society. That belief has been at the heart of OXR from the beginning, and it continues to drive how hard we work and how we make decisions as a company.”

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Mixel Studio, Inc., creator of the human-centered spatial computing platform OXR, has secured an investment from Union Heritage Ventures. The investment marks the company’s third institutional backing, following support from the University of Michigan’s Zell Founders Fund through the Desai Accel...

07/15/2026

We’re excited to share that OXR has been selected for the Summer 2026 Conquer Accelerator, operated by Michigan State University Research Foundation, and has secured a $20,000 investment to support our next stage of growth.

From early support at the University of Michigan School of Education to real-world pilots with K–12 schools, universities, and museums, Michigan’s innovation ecosystem has played an important role in shaping OXR. Through Conquer and the MSU Research Foundation, we look forward to deepening these relationships and expanding our impact across education, industry, and spatial computing.

We are grateful to the MSU Research Foundation teams—including Jeff Wesley, Tom Stewart, Bradley Matson, Rebecca Roman Landini, Mahmoud "Moody" Mattan and Jermale Eddie —and to everyone who welcomed the 2026 cohort during orientation. We are also excited to work with our Conquer Accelerator Program Fellow, Gauravi Limbole, throughout the program.

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OXR has been selected for the Summer 2026 Conquer Accelerator and secured a $20,000 investment to support its next stage of growth. Building on real-world pilots across Michigan schools, universities, and museums, OXR will use the program to deepen partnerships and expand its impact across the state...

07/01/2026

OXR won first place at the 2026 TCCNA Global Startup Challenge, receiving the $12,500 prize after competing against a strong finalist group across AI, medical research, hospitality, and immersive technology.

“We were pitching alongside two AI companies and two medical research companies, including one company that was already generating millions in revenue. Given the judges’ backgrounds and the strength of the other finalists, I honestly did not expect XR to be the preferred pick, so I was very surprised and grateful for the result.” said Lin

We are deeply grateful to the Taiwanese Chambers of Commerce of North America (TCCNA) organizing team, the judges, and the Taiwanese business community for creating such a meaningful global stage for founders like us.

OXR by Mixel Studio won first place at the 2026 TCCNA Global Startup Challenge, receiving the $12,500 prize after competing against a strong finalist group across AI, medical research, hospitality, and immersive technology.

06/19/2026

We’re excited to share that OXR was selected for the AWE Media Walkthrough, one of the featured experiences showcased to attending media at one of the world’s largest XR events.

During the demo, we showcased OXR’s XR Audience Join experience, allowing headset users to join a live session and see spatial content, presenter guidance, and annotations synchronized in real time.

One of our favorite moments was hearing the media crew in the background go, “Woo!” as they experienced it firsthand.

Even better, OXR performed flawlessly despite the spotty conference Wi-Fi. It was a great demonstration of how little bandwidth OXR requires to keep spatial content synchronized across devices in real time.

As XR moves toward lightweight headsets and AR glasses, we believe spatial experiences should be as easy to join as a Zoom meeting. That’s exactly what we’re building with OXR.

We’re also excited to officially open the OXR Beta Program. Sign up today to receive your access code and start creating spatial presentations and experiences.

🔗 Link in the comments.

06/17/2026

Excited to showcase OXR at AWE Long Beach at Booth S16! AWE is one of the largest XR industry gatherings in the world, bringing together the people and companies shaping the future of spatial computing.

At the booth, we’ll be demoing OXR’s cross-device synchronization, where audiences can join the same spatial presentation through both a web browser and XR devices — making immersive content easier to access, present, and share at scale.

We’re also honored that OXR was selected for the AWE media walkthrough. And tomorrow, the AuggieAward winners will be revealed. OXR is a finalist for Best Content Creation Tool, and we’re excited to find out the results alongside so many incredible XR companies.

Our Beta Program is now open. Sign up today to get access to OXR Pro and start building spatial presentations with us. (Link in the comment)

Come visit us at Booth S16 — we’d love to show you what we’re building.

06/06/2026

OXR secures a $25,000 investment from the University of Michigan’s Desai Accelerator and joins a cohort of emerging Michigan startups advancing AI, healthcare, sports, real estate, and immersive technology.

“Watching Desai founders pitch in 2024 planted a seed for us,” said Chiao Lin. “As University of Michigan graduates, and as someone who grew as a founder through the Zell Entrepreneurs program, joining the Desai Accelerator feels like coming home. We are truly grateful for this opportunity and for the support of a community that has continued to believe in us. After a year of building Mixel Studio with persistence and hard work after graduation, this moment makes us feel seen, supported, and ready for the next stage.”

Mixel Studio’s spatial presentation platform OXR secures a $25,000 investment from the University of Michigan’s Desai Accelerator and joins a cohort of emerging Michigan startups advancing AI, healthcare, sports, real estate, and immersive technology.