This week, I interviewed a Mixed Reality company as part of a series “My First 100”. “My First 100” aims to showcase how Singaporean founders spend their first 100 days in their businesses. LiveRoom (Pvt) Ltd. which is a software development company specialising in mixed reality, generating USD ~350,000+ annually without any funding from investors. I’ve included some excerpts in this post, but you can read the full interview here to read more about their story as business owners in Singapore:
https://the100club.io/stories/3/how-this-mixed-reality-company-generates-sdollar500000-annually-without-investors-funding
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Who are you and what business did you start?
I'm an engineer and computer graphics enthusiast with over 8 years of experience in the industry. In 2016 we established LiveRoom (Pvt) Ltd. which is a software development company specialising in mixed reality. As a company we help other businesses to develop mixed reality applications and create content for these applications.
Also I recently started Kaiju Web3 Labs Pte. Ltd in Singapore which is a software development company building financial infrastructure for Metaverse and Web3 games.
What's your backstory?
Though I studied engineering, from my younger ages I liked 3D games and animations. I was fascinated to learn about how animated movies and games were created. I got my first gaming console in 1998 and PC in 2001. As a kid without the internet I started learning how to create animations and games with Macromedia Flash reading tech magazines.
When I got into University to study computer science I specialised in computer graphics and computer vision. I was fascinated about mixed reality from the early days way before the AR / VR hype started in 2016. So during the undergraduate time we built our own Augmented Reality SDK for Android devices as we wanted to build an augmented reality app similar to Nintendo 3DS AR game in Android.
I was able to publish papers in the field of augmented reality and got an opportunity to do an internship in a Japanese company which made a 3D rendering engine. This was my first professional experience in the computer graphics industry.
After graduation in 2015 me and my friend founded LiveRoom which is a mixed reality software engineering company.
What led you to specialise in your industry?
My passion for 3D computer graphics and the internship I did in Japan lead me to specialise in this industry.
How did you spend your First 100 Days of launching your business?
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Full article here:
https://the100club.io/stories/3/how-this-mixed-reality-company-generates-sdollar500000-annually-without-investors-funding