you all so much for coming we would like
to share with you some of the innovative
commercial products based on virtual
reality technology on which our students
are working to give this presentation
more appeal we are going to engage in
some role-playing let’s imagine for just
a few minutes that you the audience
members are fabulously wealthy venture
capital investors looking to multiply
your fortunes by supporting the
production of the next generation of VR
software you are going to listen to the
presentations and decide which company
has the most attractive ideas for the
marketplace at the end of the three
presentations you will decide on your
favorite team and vote for the best
business plan by a show of hands without
any further introduction we will start
the product pitches with our first
company calculate good afternoon we are
the proud owners of Calculon a math
software production company the
educational software market is
burgeoning and is estimated to be worth
586 billion by 2021 what about math
what’s 8 times 750 350 but no no no it’s
it’s 56 the memorization of the times
tables is one of the most essential
foundational skills required for
students to advance in math a widely
quoted recent research study in nature
of neuroscience concluded that
memorization is a key step along the way
to efficient mathematical reasoning but
wait a minute isn’t discovering and
understanding the meaning behind 8 times
7 equals 57 or 6 more important than
just memorizing the fact that 8 times 7
equals 56 memorizing the times tables
versus understanding the times tables
why should we choose between memory and
understanding
can we not just teach both the
memorization of math facts and the
deeper understanding of what those facts
mean the answer is yes we can have our
cake and eat it too
to combine these two approaches of math
fact memorization and math understanding
we have created an enol the innovative
virtual reality program these are some
examples from our beta version when a
struggling math student downloads our
application and inserts his phone into a
simple cardboard that is in your special
envelopes he enters a immersive colorful
world that he can explore he encounters
characters and guides that are based on
the gods of ancient Greek mythology
therefore we have named our application
de M which stands for do a s X
Mathematica when translated to English
means gods from math here’s the exciting
myth as the user progresses along their
journey they are confronted with
barriers which grow into large walls of
blocks the goal is to analyze these
walls of blocks and determine which
mathematical equation they model once
they identify the correct equation they
can continue on their way and all of
this occurs in a virtual reality
environment that is both enjoyable and
highly motivational and we know that
high levels of motivation will likely
translate into higher levels of
engagement and understanding so for
start-up funds we’re asking for $10,000
for a 25% share in our company to
continue product development from the
current beta stage to the full release
version which we anticipate will be
released in June this year thank you for
your attention if your house was on fire
what are the first belongings you would
evacuate after the baby of course and
the pet cat most of us would probably
choose the family photo album the
pictures that Chronicle and document our
lives are very important to us on so
many levels but let me tell you about
the new technology now available to
record the important milestones in our
lives that is just as
mentis as the shift from centuries of
painting to the first still photograph
captured by Joseph me ups in 1826
introducing halal em what if you could
not just wistfully gaze at a picture of
your child’s first birthday on the wall
but could actually enter into the
picture so to speak by participating and
interacting with a razor-sharp hologram
of your child taking her first step on
the same kitchen floor on which it
occurred so long ago you could observe
this hologram from any angle and to even
communicate with it
welcome to the photography of the future
that is now have you ever looked at that
couch in your living room and
nostalgically remembered your
six-year-old from so many years ago
curled up at the book sitting against
that same cushion holo mem is a company
that will translate the beautiful form
of your child into a still or animated
hologram that can be enjoyed for decades
to come while sitting on your no longer
empty couch those of you who are
innovative could capture 19 holograms
from the time your youngster was born to
age 19 and play all of them at once for
his 20th birthday party wouldn’t it be
fun to listen to your child screaming as
a baby and complaining as a teenager at
the same time we can help you create
live holograms as well for example if
you are taking an online course
why not translate a life-size 3d
representation of your teacher sitting
across from you in your own home rather
than watching his face on a monitor do
you have a business meeting planned
again why not set out night 20 chairs in
your own rec room you sit in one and let
the other 19 be filled with hollow MEMS
virtual bodies all having a lively
discussion with one another and of
course when we display our pictures on
the wall we usually mount them in frames
Holograms will offer the possibility of
new kinds of frames here are some
examples which hollow men designed and
created with our labs 3d printer and
laser cutter if you are interested
investing in a spirited company with
innovative minds that are designing
products that will reshape the way we
understand photography and education
please consider joining our team with a
$20,000 investment for 20% ownership
thank you hello my name is Liam and I am
the co-inventor of the then and now
time travel VR app at this time more
than one in six Canadians are seniors
over the age of 64 which is more than
the number of Canadian children under
the age of 15 people are not only living
longer but working layer as well in fact
the number of Canadian women who are in
their late 60s and still working has
more than tripled in the last 15 years
and along with the increasing senior
purchasing power
we have astronomical growth in the tech
skills of this age group in the year
2000 less than 10% of seniors were using
the internet by surfing or facebooking
skyping or blogging by 2010 this number
jumped to 60% and it continues to grow
today with large percentages now only
smartphones there’s a growing window of
opportunity for apps that can be
targeted at this demographic thus we
have traded a beta version of the then
and now time travel app here’s how it
works
as the decades fly by many neighborhoods
change substantially seniors enjoy
reliving old memories of the way those
places used to look the then NL VR app
is an innovative and emotionally
engaging way for those seniors to do
just that so how is then now help
seniors relive those neighborhood
memories well first the customer sends
us location of a Lower Mainland area
that holds special meaning for them then
they either supply us with their own
photos of the location or we scan large
day base at the store close and final
closest matches after selecting the
historical photos from the second step
we then modify the pictures by applying
sophisticated 2d to 3d conversion
software we then travel to the Lower
Mainland location and using a
high-resolution 360-degree camera
capture the key parts of areas as they
appear today we then display the old and
new versions of the neighborhood using
our den and now app which they can
download to their smartphones and either
traditional photo format or that of an
immersive 3d VR experience that can be
displayed on the cardboard or gear VR
viewer so we are
some you to consider investing using the
technology of the future to make the
past come alive we are requesting for
start-up funds of $10,000 with a 25%
share in our company to continue product
development from our current beta
version to the full version which we
anticipate will be released in June of
this year thank you for your kind
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