: How often have you pictured it in mind while reading a report on tennis ace Roger Federer’s cross-court backhand passing shot leaving the opponent dumbstruck or the magical world of Harry Porter while flipping through a J.K. Rowling thriller?
Nadeem Mohammed and his band of four friends at cloudQube, a startup being incubated at Startup Village, are working their imagination overtime to ensure that readers will no longer have to bank on their imagination to get transformed to a world painted in words.
After more than a year of hard work, the young tech graduates have developed a prototype of their product Vear.i0 based on Augmented Reality, which is essentially a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user’s view of the real world, thus providing a composite view.
The application when developed fully would be compatible with all holographic devices. In fact, the youngsters had initially planned to create a holographic device since there was no such device when they started out. It’s a device that offers two-dimensional or three-dimensional view of holograms, which have no mass but are made entirely of light, from different angles and distances.
“But then we came to know that IT giants like Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all working on holographic devices. So instead of creating our own device we started developing our idea as an application for all these devices,” said Nadeem. Though Microsoft asked them to wait for its HoloLens, which was still under development, they received a boost when a California-based start-up offered a wearable holographic glass developed by them, which was shipped to Kochi with great difficulties.
Since these devices come at a premium denying large sections of its experience, Nadeem and friends developed their application in such a way to use it with an ordinary smart phone without losing the original 3D holographic experience.
A group of young techies at cloudQube develop prototype of their product Vear.i0, which would be compatible with all holographic devices.
