[HN Gopher] Launch HN: Venu (YC W21) - True-to-Life 3D Virtual T...
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Launch HN: Venu (YC W21) - True-to-Life 3D Virtual Trade Shows
Hey HN, I'm Jeremy, CEO of Venu (https://venu3d.com), and my team
and I have created a virtual 3D trade show platform that feels like
you're there in real life. We would like to invite you to
experience Venu for yourself by walking around a virtual trade
show, check out the exhibit booths, come on stage -- all from your
computer! VENU will be open for tours today from 12-2pm PST. Come
hang out in our lounge while you eat your lunch. Please follow the
download & installation instructions and pop on in! Download Venu
at https://www.venu3d.com/downloads.html - please enter "HN" for
event name. We enable event professionals to host virtual
exhibits, fairs, & conferences in a 3D venue, beyond 2D faces on a
screen. Venu allows participants to walk through an expo hall as 3D
avatars in first person view, have spontaneous conversations and
network with others, present on stage to a full audience of
avatars, and sell sponsorships. Our customers like Microsoft, YPO,
Global Game Jam, Indie Games Expo, Global Pandemic Coalition, Earth
Day Summit, have created expositions, networking, and speaker
experiences in Venu for their attendees that keep them coming back
for more. We're a team of passionate creatives who left our
software jobs to pursue our dreams to create a virtual world where
people can connect and live life beyond what's possible today with
virtual reality as the everyday norm. When I was 14, I was
inspired by a TV show called Yu-Gi-Oh that showed me a world of
augmented reality holograms and virtual reality, which led me to
study at Georgia Tech, join and ship Xbox One at Microsoft, ship
HoloLens at Microsoft, start my first startup RoboBear teaching
elementary school students college level robotics with robotic
teddy bears to pay for rent to start our virtual reality startup
today. We've been through 5 fun and challenging years, being one
of the first to innovate in the VR market, developing VR games,
hosting conferences in San Francisco, opening VR arcades,
developing enterprise apps for clients, developing Venu, overcoming
running out of money countless times, to make it to where we are
today, and we have so many more exciting challenges to tackle ahead
of us. We would love to hear your feedback. Please send us
questions. Thanks! Jeremy
Author : Nanetteljackson
Score : 30 points
Date : 2021-03-12 18:18 UTC (4 hours ago)
| javajive wrote:
| Thanks so much for the tour! It was lovely meeting you both.
| Congratulations on the Hacker News launch!
| vwa-pat wrote:
| Thanks for stopping by!
| Nanetteljackson wrote:
| Great meeting you too! Thanks for coming into Venu.
| f6v wrote:
| I wonder if there's going to be a "virtual tech winter" after we
| defeat the pandemic.
| JeremyCLam wrote:
| Yes, we believe there will be a "changing of season" post-
| Covid, however, as a result of event organizers being forced to
| switch to virtual events for the past year and a half, our
| customers have learned the value of hosting events on Venu. 1)
| Wvent organizers can sign up high profile speakers and
| exhibitors in a matter of weeks rather than months because
| attendees do not have to fly, book hotels, or take time out of
| office, which means higher sales for the event organizer and
| higher quality conference for the attendees with more quality
| attendees. 2) We are working with our customers now to organize
| "hybrid" conferences as well as organizing our own in San
| Francisco once Covid is over. Having an expo with hundreds of
| booths virtually and speakers from all around the world speak
| and network virtually is a proven win for Venu over in-person
| trade shows. However, networking dinners, happy hours at bars,
| and on-site tours with silicon valley tech companies are still
| a great value add of an in-person conference.
| FailMore wrote:
| Your download link is going to a 404
|
| FM - https://taaalk.co
| Nanetteljackson wrote:
| So sorry for the download link. Here is the link:
| https://venu3d.com/downloads.html
| dang wrote:
| Ok, I've fixed it in the top text also.
| Nanetteljackson wrote:
| Thank you so much!
| WrtCdEvrydy wrote:
| Yes, I think this thread will deliver lots of content.
| Nanetteljackson wrote:
| Thank you. We hope so too. Love all the feedback so far.
| Nanetteljackson wrote:
| Here is the download link:
| https://www.venu3d.com/downloads.html
| bombcar wrote:
| How do you deal with the fact that it seems nobody really WANTS
| to be at a trade show- and if they're not stuck on the show flow
| with nothing to do they have no incentive to glance at the
| booths?
| Nanetteljackson wrote:
| Hi, thanks for your question. Our most recent event was for
| 800+ attendees with 130+ booths, for COVID-19 Relief. This
| event had luminaries such as: Dr Sanjay Gupta - Chief CNN
| Medical Correspondent, Dr Celine Grounder from the White House
| Covid-19 Task Force, Dr Hotez, and more from all over the
| world. The vendors had all sorts of COVID-19 solutions of high
| caliber. People have been engaged while in Venu. Please come on
| in and have a look for yourself.
| bberenberg wrote:
| Second Life for Enterprise.
|
| Serious question though, how do you handle moderation?
| Nanetteljackson wrote:
| Thanks for your observation and question. We designed Venu to
| be a "venue" for trade shows, conferences, and fairs where
| there is a need to have exhibit or expo halls in addition to a
| stage for speakers, keynotes, and panels. We want the
| experience to be as true to real life as possible in walking
| around and checking out booths and conversing with the
| exhibitors. Also, walking around Venu allows people to
| organically engage with people (name tags are above their
| heads) they see that they may want to talk to. All very natural
| to how an in person trade show would be like. As for
| moderation, the event organizer would be managing the show flow
| for their own event, with our event project manager. We offer
| A/V support as well as technical support.
| JeremyCLam wrote:
| Hey bberenberg, thanks for the question! We have moderators and
| security walking around the venue with moderation powers to
| mute and kick users when needed similar to security at an in-
| person conference. We also have an automated security system
| that flags suspicious users to security staff for review.
| Thanks!
| Mkm1800 wrote:
| Oh
| paulirwin wrote:
| This looks great! A few questions, that I normally would email to
| you, but figured they could be helpful to others here:
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| 1. What are the capabilities for the presentations? Can you
| present video, screen share (code), etc? What about showing the
| video of the presenter?
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| 2. Can you choose the layout of the exhibition hall if you only
| have i.e. 6 sponsors, so it doesn't look too empty?
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| 3. Is audio spatial, so you don't hear people that are further
| away? I would hope so, otherwise with hundreds of people it would
| become out of hand quickly :-)
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| 4. I appreciate that some "enterprise" pricing might be "contact
| us," but can you share a rough ballpark of what the pricing looks
| like for smaller events?
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| 5. Is there a plan to lower the system requirements and/or add a
| streaming option? 2GB of graphics memory may be excluding a lot
| of people. Fine for a gamer's expo, but tough for people using
| business laptops.
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| 6. How are Q&As done for presentations?
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| Thanks, and looking forward to checking out the demo.
| JeremyCLam wrote:
| Hey Paul, thanks for the thorough questions and feedback! We
| can go over the questions in more detail at the demo 12pm PST.
| Download: https://www.venu3d.com/downloads.html) 1. Yes to all.
| It's just a screenshare, so you can share anything, slides,
| video, webcam. 2. Yes, everything you see is customizable to
| the event organizer's needs. 3. Yes, we have 3D spatial audio
| meticulously tuned to allow you to speak with those around you
| but not be bothered by background noise from the next group
| over. 4. We work with event organizers with an annual budget
| ranging from $10K-$150K+. We understand each event organizers'
| needs are different, and we match our level of service and
| custom requests for each customer. 5. Yes, system requirements
| will be lowered in the upcoming months to allow more users with
| different computers to have a smoother experience. 6. Attendees
| with Q&A questions line up and walk up on stage for questions.
| In the upcoming months, we will also have a built-in Q&A chat
| as requested by one of our customers. Would love to meet you in
| the demo and connect over email and get more of your feedback
| on some other things around user experience. If you're
| interested in chatting, feel free to shoot me an email at
| jeremy@virtualworldarcade.com. We appreciate the help and
| feedback!
| paulirwin wrote:
| I wish I could have made it today. I'll certainly be reaching
| out for more information.
| tjs8rj wrote:
| Thank you both for the tour - would love to attend some
| conferences in the future!
| Nanetteljackson wrote:
| It was great to meet you in Venu! Yes, we will definitely let
| you know of future conferences in Venu. Thanks!
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