Yes, definitely. Thank you so much.

We need to create a specific URL?

To our...?

If you introduce, it’s...

Thank you.

If you could connect to us would be good.

Do you know the people from Tower 101?

No. I think it’s another thing.

Tomorrow, I think.

We have a French tech night.

I think the next step would be, I mean the closest one, would be to talk to the Ministry of Culture about our technologies...

Municipality, yeah.

Yes.

Yeah.

Deceptive, yeah.

That’s cool.

Whoa. [laughs]

I’m not a designer of how it works. I focus only on the use case. I think on Timescope as well. In fact, when there is a connection with something that justifies your presence, it’s a huge added value. Then you can leave something that nobody else can leave.

It’s unique value proposition. I guess that’s the key thing. It’s something you cannot do differently. She’s the connection.

It’s something you cannot see better in a different way, right?

No. This is to explain that allowing people through VR or AR to experience something at home has to be proven yet to be a benefit.

"...because you could access to details that you would not normally see." A bit like in a game where you can go, and then you explore something from the close...She said this is when we measure the satisfaction of the end users. This is where it’s most exciting.

Then she said, "The most rewarding result we had was I was filming stones on the beach..."

She was paid by Google to experiment shooting in virtual reality. I seen the results. She said, "When I filmed the concert and I showed it to people, they didn’t...the experience was pretty poorly rated because they compared it to the experience in the concert hall. And they said, ’Yeah, ...

I had this very, very interesting meeting at YouTube in New York City three years ago about this. We talked to the YouTube VR guru. I don’t remember her name. She’s very well-known in this field.

It’s all AR. We don’t do VR because we take people to performing arts. We don’t use VR at all.

No translation.

You don’t get so sick.

You’re interested in the why...

This is what we are at. We do many other things but this is our most advanced technology. That’s what we’re most excited about.

They were incredibly excited because they said, "We could read it because it’s written... It’s, it’s high resolution, and it’s, uh, we can choose the brightness. And so, it works," which is, for us, the promise of a use case that really matches with a need and with people that ...

This summer at the opera we had... The most amazing thing was an old couple, probably 80 years old. They could hardly walk. They used these super futurist glasses.

I’m an entrepreneur, I’m not a public financing person, but it’s happening now. What we see is that people get extremely excited and not the geek people. Not people like you and me, but the older people. People that cannot hear anymore.

For the moment, I did not see a theater or an opera that was motivated enough on their own to decide to finance it. We do some tests. We did one at the Opera Garnier this year, the French National Opera, and they are interested, but they want to find ...

We are talking to them. In the UK, it’s the first example that there is. It’s not happening with us, but we are in close discussion with them, and there is a sponsor, I think standard sponsor. Accenture is the company who sponsored the content, the programing, and then there ...

The second hurdle is the financing of it. We are talking to public institutions whose mission is to promote culture, so it ends to be accessible to as many people as possible, but a lot of them have budget constraints, so they are trying to go around the law. They ...

The big hurdles we see for the adoption of this is that it’s very new, because it’s one of the first applications in the world for smartglasses that is really useful. It’s a pioneer thing, so we need to find customers that want to take that risk to be the ...

There’s also people that prepare the translations who can do it... If the specialist of sign language is based in Taipei, and it’s happening in Taichung, you could have someone who is doing it in an online platform, and it’s automatically available.

It’s definitely possible. Our software Spectitular(r) manages text and sound and image, but having video is not a problem. It’s all cloud-based, so it’s collaborative.

We could have it in the future. For the moment we don’t, because sign language takes a lot of space in the field of vision. It’s complicated, but we are going to test probably next season with a theater in Gothenburg.

It’s good. We have...

This technology is now the one that we use, and the National Theater in London has purchased 50 of them to put for all people that are hearing impaired to get the translation.

The resolution is 921,600 HD (horizontal 1280 x vertical 720 dots) x 3.

It’s very useful, and performing arts is a growing sector with more and more needs. For example, when I was here two years ago, we had a discussion with the National Theater. It’s a leading place for the identity of Taiwan and the shining of its culture, so making it ...

Yes, exactly. I’m not sure because of course technology evolves. It’s exciting on principle, but what I see in theater and the opera is that people need the text, and they have to move their head to find it, and they cannot have all languages at the same time.

Even that, I’m not so sure about the benefits. Super-imposing reality is a help, but I know that when you interview maintenance people they say it’s good enough if they get the information in an earplug. There is a camera so a very skilled technician can analyze the situation, but ...

It’s also possible to position it. That’s definitely possible. It’s the very beginning. As far as we know, there is no real application of smartglasses yet on the market for the public domain. There are some niche applications for surgery, for maintenance in hostile environments.

In the opera, several people will sing at the same time from different places. You cannot look at both at the same time so you need the text to follow you. The technology allows it if you want.

Not always. Sometimes, things will happen. There will be a blast in the back but the actor continues to speak. You are looking back, and you want to understand what he is saying.

We can parameter that. At the moment, we don’t see a lot of benefit of having interactivity. It’s good that the text is moving with your eyes, actually. It’s better.