ABSENTIA

What ABSENTIA does

Absentia Virtual Reality Pvt Ltd (Absentia VR) is a Bangalore-based, privately held hardware company founded in 2015 by five BITS Goa dropouts. It designs and sells the Tesseract virtual reality head-mounted display (HMD), offered in two tiers: a Full HD (1080p) model at ₹12,000 and a QHD (1440p) model at ₹20,000. The Tesseract is positioned as an affordable, platform-agnostic alternative to Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR, with technical specifications including a 465 ppi display, 110° field of view, 10ms latency, military-grade head tracking, anti-fog lens design, and integrated myopic vision adjustment. The device is engineered to operate on low-specification hardware using only 15MB of RAM, broadening its addressable base to users without high-end gaming PCs.

The company monetizes exclusively through one-time direct-to-consumer hardware sales via its website (absentiavr.com) and offers free in-person VR demonstrations to prospective buyers in the Bangalore vicinity. Its target customers are VR gaming enthusiasts in India, with secondary, lightly evidenced interest from enterprise users (a Mahindra testimonial appears on the site). Absentia VR raised a ₹1.2 crore (~$200K) seed round in November 2015 from Astarc Ventures and 50K Ventures, followed by rounds from Venture Catalysts (2016), Exfinity Venture Partners (~$1.24M, 2017), and Xseed Partners (2019). With 1–10 employees, no recurring revenue model, no disclosed patents, and no product launches beyond the original Tesseract SKU, the company has remained a small, single-product hardware venture operating within a single Indian city.

Name

ABSENTIA

Legal name

Absentia Virtual Reality Pvt Ltd

Website

https://absentiavr.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Absentia VR is a Bangalore-based hardware company that designs and sells the Tesseract virtual reality headset at ₹12,000–20,000, targeting Indian VR gaming enthusiasts via direct-to-consumer website sales and in-person demonstrations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Virtual Reality Hardware

NAICS

Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing (334310)

SIC

Household Audio & Video Equipment (3651)

akta.pro primary industry

VR/XR Hardware & Accessories (Headsets, Controllers, Trackers, Haptics) (MPAFAGAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

VR/AR Gaming Hardware (Headsets & Controllers) (HDACANAD), VR Headsets & Accessories Retail (CRACAFAE)

Keywords

• Virtual reality headsets
• VR head-mounted displays
• Gaming peripherals
• Immersive VR devices
• Consumer VR hardware

Headquarters

HQ city

Thane

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. VR Hardware Sales: Direct sales of Tesseract VR headsets to consumers in two tiers: Full HD (1080p) and QHD (1440p) models. One-time hardware purchase with no subscription required.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Absentia VR (legally Absentia Virtual Reality Pvt Ltd) designs, manufactures, and sells the Tesseract virtual reality head-mounted display (HMD) directly to consumers. The product is offered in two tiers - the Full HD (1080p) model at ₹12,000 and the QHD (1440p) model at ₹20,000 - featuring military-grade head tracking, anti-fog lenses, built-in myopia correction, and a device-agnostic algorithm requiring only 15 MB of system RAM.

Product overview

Absentia VR offers a single unified hardware product: the Tesseract VR headset. The product line consists of two models differentiated by display resolution — Full HD (1080p) priced at ₹12,000 and QHD (1440p) priced at ₹20,000. Both models share the same core hardware platform with features including military-grade head tracking, anti-fog lens design, myopic vision adjustment for glasses users, and eye strain reduction via an interpupillary adjustment system. The Tesseract headset is designed to be device-agnostic, requiring minimal system resources (15 MB RAM) to operate.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Tesseract: VR Head-Mounted Display (HMD) with 1440p resolution, 110° field of view, military-grade head tracking, anti-fog lens design, and 10ms latency

Products and services

• Tesseract Full HD VR Headset
• Tesseract QHD VR Headset

Quantifiable outcome

• 465 ppi pixel density with no screen-door effect
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Various Client/Collaboration CompaniesminorOthersLogo section displays approximately 10+ client/collaboration company logos including Mahindra, though specific company names are not labeled in the source.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Sony PlayStation VR: Sony's PlayStation VR2 is the named competitor Absentia benchmarked against at launch, targeting the same gaming-first VR HMD category with deep platform and content backing from PlayStation Studios.
• Meta Quest (Oculus): Meta's Quest line is the dominant consumer VR HMD globally, directly competing with Tesseract on display quality, content ecosystem, and price. Meta's scale and platform ownership make it the primary competitive benchmark Absentia is measured against.
• HTC Vive: HTC Vive is a long-standing PC-tethered VR HMD maker competing in the same headset category as Tesseract, with broader enterprise and consumer lines and established distribution globally.
• Valve Index: Valve Index is a premium PC-tethered VR HMD competing with Tesseract on field-of-view, refresh rate, and tracking precision, anchored to the SteamVR content ecosystem.
• Samsung (Gear VR / XR): Samsung partnered on consumer VR HMDs (Gear VR) and continues XR efforts, overlapping with Absentia on affordable consumer-facing VR hardware for mass markets including India.
• Microsoft (HoloLens / Mixed Reality): Microsoft's HoloLens and Windows Mixed Reality partners compete in the same head-mounted display category as Tesseract, particularly for enterprise and industrial use cases that Absentia targets.
• Apple (Vision Pro / Vision): Apple's Vision Pro and follow-on spatial computing devices define the high end of the XR headset category, shaping consumer expectations on display quality and tracking that Tesseract must match or undercut.

Direct peers

• Pimax: Pimax is an independent VR HMD maker focused on high-FOV and high-resolution PC-tethered headsets, closely comparable to Absentia as a smaller hardware-only player competing against incumbent VR platforms.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/absentiavr

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors4 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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