Drukka is leading the personalisation task that exploit the novel preference extraction capabilities offered by 360o media, through the viewing direction in conjunction with content metadata It i salso responsible for the technical and production tasks such as 360° Video Tools, developing the multiplatform interfaces, developing the annotation tool as well as the custom Player Technology envisioned for the project. Drukka takes a pivotal role in exploitation with respect to business planning and awareness creation due to its large network of commercial contacts and experience in investment and business acceleration.
Website: http://www.drukka.hu/
Drukka is a leading creative solutions developer company and a start-upfactory focused on unleashing the full potential of its clients in the digital age. Serving its B2B partners primarily in marketing, media and communication (e.g. Viasat, Inivitel, T-Com, SportLiveMedia), entertainment, real estate, banking and retail industries. It frequently uses 360o videos, Augmented- and Virtual Reality as the primary form of engagement that transform customer interactions into exciting, engaging and highly informative experiences to strengthen brand loyalty. Via its Start-up-Studio model (http://startup.drukka.com/) it acts as a platform for building successful businesses, by taking ideas from pre-seed levels to large scale investments. As an example, its current incubation portfolio includes 360Moovies and AppMedia both of which provide tool sets that will be built upon in the context of the Hyper360 project, as well as the technical solutions offered by PanoCAST (http://www.panocast.com), the technology of which Drukka acquired in summer of 2016 to help boost its Immersive Media presence. These technologies will be managed and integrated into the Hyper360 project by a dedicated team of Drukka experts and developers.
Barnabas Takacs
Position
Barnabas Takacs received his MSc and PhD in the USA. He is an internationally recognized computer scientist with a varied field of expertise in virtual reality and interactive immersive media, broadcast and film solutions, human modelling and animation, as well as facial information processing, computer graphics. He has published over 75 scientific and technical papers. He has spent 17 years of his career developing cutting edge technologies for a variety of industrial applications, such as the film industry (VCP & Digital Elite, Los Angeles) bringing digital human modelling and animation technologies to the realm of feature films as well as real-time, interactive characters for entertainment, special visualization techniques including 3D real-time MMW radar (WaveBand / GulfStream and Boeing Corp.) and image-guided ultrasound diagnosis (Harvard University BWH, Boston). He was the founder of PanoCAST, a 360° video production and immersive media company, delivering VR experiences to its high-end clients for over a decade.
Gergely Richter
Position
He is an expert mobile application developer for crossplatform commercial applications, particularly immersive interactive technologies, VR and AR solutions with a keen eye on commercialization and technical viability. During his career he has delivered a number of cutting edge solutions as a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for a range of companies in recent years. Prior to joining Drukka he worked at Appshaker Ltd, London, UK, where he was responsible for their Augmented Reality Campaigns (2009-11) and ARWorks (2011-2014) a leading creative Smartphone Application Developer company where he worked on delivering interactive mobile and AR solutions to service a B2B clientele. In 2013 he also co-founded Shindig Studios LLC, Orlando, FL, USA to create an Augmented Reality photo booth system.
Tamas Bohner
CEO and founder
Tamas Bohner is the CEO and Founder of Drukka Startup Factory, with an extensive background and experience in building start-up companies from scratch and bringing them to successful seed investment stage.