This entrepreneur just got $8.6 million to make advanced AR games for phones without Apple's ARkit (AAPL)

Illumix Illumix, a Silicon Valley-based startup, is building augmented reality games and the technology needed to run them. It's attracted $8.6 million in seed funding from top-tier venture capital firms. Its investors believe that the founder's background in math and machine learning can help the games Illumix makes stand out in a world of games using off-the-shelf AR software like Apple's ARkit. Giant companies like Google and Apple are betting heavily on augmented reality, an emerging technol...