Apelab

Apelab designs immersive learning products, working from Los Angeles and Geneva. Three interaction designers set it up in Geneva in 2014, and it makes 3D, AR and VR tools that let students and teachers create their own interactive content.

What Apelab offers

• Zoe — a classroom program for K-12 and higher education with tutorials, teacher training and visual programming, including an editor used inside VR.
• SpatialStories — an open-source SDK and API for building AR and VR content, first released as a beta in 2018.
• Immersive experiences — AR and VR titles such as Winterolymp, Ko'Ko's Curse and Break a Leg.

Who it works with

Apelab builds for teachers and students from kindergarten through university. In its early years it worked with Facebook, Google and HTC on interactive experiences, and Zoe came out of a residency at Rlab run with Superventures.

Key facts

• Based in: Los Angeles, United States and Geneva, Switzerland
• Founded: 2014
• Awards: French-speaking Swiss first prize for Ko'Ko's Curse interface design; honours for a VR game and for mobile innovation