“Furthermore, we use cloud computing and mobile processing to do the heavy lifting and bring the power of professional studios into smartphones,” added Pagés. The Volu app is capable of generating images suitable for AR and VR content because of the technology now packed into modern smartphones, such as lidar, which senses depth using invisible light pulses. “We use deep learning and other computer vision algorithms for different processes such as image segmentation, 3D skeleton reconstruction, texture mapping, but especially for 3D reconstruction, which we are even able to do with one single image.” “Volograms is a deep-tech company with a big focus on R&D,” said Pagés. ‘We aim to grow Volu into a ubiquitous camera platform for everyone to use on their smartphones’ Volograms’ fourth founder, Trinity research professor Aljosa Smolic, now serves as a board member and adviser. Their names are across more than 100 scientific papers with more than 1,300 citations, and multiple patent applications. But their shared technical expertise across academia and industry saw them find common ground in Ireland.Ĭombined, they have more than three decades of experience in computer vision, computer graphics, VR and AR, including work at Disney Research and Siemens. These three founders come from different backgrounds – Pagés from Spain, CTO Jan Ondřej from Czech Republic and COO Konstantinos Amplianitis from Greece.
In fact, he met his founding team during his postdoctoral research at V-Sense, a Trinity College Dublin research group focused on visual computing. He also has more than 10 years’ experience in the field of 3D reconstruction, as an entrepreneur as well as a researcher. Rendering a standard video into 3D content for use in AR and VR involves a form of artificial intelligence called computer vision, which Pagés happens to have a PhD in. At least, that’s one way to do it.Ī post shared by Volograms makes this possible using volumetric video capture, which is a way to capture video suitable for augmented and virtual reality. Think TikTok-style dance videos with a dancer from one video transplanted beside another person’s attempt using AR. Key to this is Volu, an app for users to capture real-life content using their smartphone and instantly ready it for a bit of AR fun. “This lack of content creation tools for regular users is a significant market opportunity we are addressing,” he said.
“There is no such thing as user-generated content for AR.”Įnter Volograms, a Dublin start-up out to make the creation of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) content accessible for anyone with a smartphone.Īccording to CEO and co-founder Pagés, even key tech industry players such as Apple and Snap have flagged content creation as a barrier to widespread AR adoption. “Even though most of the Big Tech players have an AR roadmap, most of the content that nowadays can be experienced in AR has been created by a professional, a designer or an artist,” said Rafael Pagés. As talk of the metaverse abounds, this deep-tech Trinity spin-out has the vision for a new user-generated content reality.
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