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January 2026

Middle Tech Podcast

Immersive Hearing Technologies: Shingles Took His Hearing at 40 — Now Jeff Cummins Is Fixing How Hearing Aids Are Sold

CEO Jeff Cummins joins the Middle Tech podcast to share how losing most of his hearing to shingles at 40 led him to co-found Immersive and rethink how hearing aids are sold.

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January 2026

Middle Tech

Middle Tech Spotlight Series: Jeff Cummins of Immersive Hearing Technologies

Middle Tech's spotlight series profiles Jeff Cummins and how Immersive uses VR-based demonstration to let patients experience how different hearing aids perform in realistic environments before they buy.

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August 2025

Louisville Business First (Inno)

2025 Vogt Award Winners Announced

Louisville Business First covers the Community Foundation of Louisville's Vogt Invention & Innovation Award program, the accelerator that backed Immersive Hearing Technologies in its 2023 cohort.

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December 2023

Louisville Business First (Inno)

Immersive Hearing Technologies Profile

Louisville Business First profiles Immersive Hearing Technologies and its University of Louisville-born approach to letting patients hear hearing aids in action before they buy.

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November 2023

UofL News

UofL Startup Lands Award, Investment for Research-Backed Hearing Technology

Immersive Hearing Technologies wins the Vogt Invention & Innovation Award from the Community Foundation of Louisville — $25,000 in non-dilutive grant funding plus a spot in a 10-week startup accelerator.

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Press Kit

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Company description

Immersive Hearing Technologies is the maker of Engage, a tablet-based hearing aid demonstration that calibrates a personalized listening experience to a patient's own audiogram across four real-world environments. Built on patent-pending audio research out of the University of Louisville, Engage helps audiology clinics replace explanation with experience, turning ambivalent patients into confident, informed decisions. Immersive is based in Louisville, Kentucky.

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