January

Adopted Binaural Rendering technology ISO/IEC MPEG-H as International Standard.

May

Founded Gaudio Lab, Inc. Korea.

July

Received 1.1B KRW(100K USD) Seed round investment from Soft Bank Ventures and Capstone Partners.

July

Awarded 1st place in VR & AR Challenge (by the minister of Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning).

September

Received 50B KRW(4.7M USD) Series A investment from Korea Investment & Securities Co., Ltd, Soft Bank Vetures, and Capstone Partners.

January

Launched “Works 1.0”(VR Audio Authoring Tool).

August

Launched Sol VR360 SDK 1.0(VR Audio Platform Solution) / Awarded the “VR Enterprise of the Year” at VR Awards.

September

Awarded “Innovative Company of the Year” at the AMD Studios VR Awards.

December

Launched Craft 1.0(VR Audio Plugin for Game Engine).

March

Launched Loudness SDK 1.0.

September

Launched EQ SDK 1.0.

January

Launched integrated Audio SDK 1.0.

April

FLO(SK Telecom) & VIBE(Naver Corp.) -Commercialization of Smart EQ (G’Master).
*FLO is a streaming service created by South Korean Telecom.
*Vibe is a streaming service created by Naver Corp. that recommends a customized playlist based on individual preferences.

June

Naver TV-Commercialization of Loudness Normalization technology.
*Naver TV (formerly Naver TV Cast) is a web broadcast network which mainly provides web dramas distributed by Naver.

October

Bugs Music adopted ‘Loudness Normalization’ technology.
*Bugs Music is the premium music streaming service in Korea for hi-res audio.

December

Naver adopted ‘Loudness normalization technology’ for their video service in blog, group page, media, sports, V Live, Live TV, and more.