CAROLINE: Hi, Today I am here with Bryan Colin. He's the CEO of View Labs, and I'm really excited to be chatting with him today. Bryan thank you for being here.
BRYAN: Thank you, it's a pleasure.
CAROLINE: Same, so before we dive in, can new zealand whatsapp you tell us a little bit more about yourself and your company, and how you first came up with the concept?
BRYAN: Yeah, so the company was named VirtualAPT. We started the company about six years ago, been based in New York city the entire time. The idea was to be able to recreate the in-person experience digitally. So building autonomous robots to create video technologies, virtual tour type solutions. And that's been kind of the original vision that we've grown since then.
CAROLINE: Awesome. So can you tell us more about how your idea kind of evolved since you've created it, and how your company grew to where it's at today?
BRYAN: Kind of realized early on that the, both the hardware and the software that we wanted didn't exist. So we had to really build all of the core technology behind it all. And then we realized where the technology had its biggest natural advantages. And for us, large spaces is one of the things where we really don't have much competition. So for real estate large building, or large retail space or something like that, there's not a whole lot of other options that work for those kind of areas. So we moved away from doing kind of single family and started to do kind of large multi-family large commercial, and then expanded from the technology side into four additional technologies over time.
Based off of the robot, we have a mixed reality technology that allows us to place any object or animation in a photo realistic 360 space. You can stage an office, you can use it for space planning, architecture, interior design. And then we have a video conferencing app called 360 Meet, which we invented a way to eliminate latency and quality degradation from streaming video. And that's what we developed it for because people were sharing our videos and the quality wasn't good. Because Zoom or Teams or, all those platforms it's very choppy if you've seen it. And we created a way that it doesn't have those negative effects. Now for anybody that's doing any sort of collaborative video or presentations, it's just a better way of doing that.
