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Opportunity
Supercharging Productivity with Spatial Collaboration
Current remote work solutions often force a harsh trade-off: absorb high costs and travel time for in-person meetings, or settle for limitations of video conferencing tools.
Imagine millions lost in downtime waiting for on-site experts, or the logistical nightmare of scheduling complex training. Even simple design reviews that can be solved in a quick session necessitate costly travel for physical prototypes.
Legacy video conferencing tools simply don’t cut it. Confined to a flat screen that's lacking hands-free operation, and plagued by awkward muting/unmuting, they hinder natural communication and focus. Participants can easily disengage, leaving critical discussions unsucessful. Yet, 64% of workers would quit if asked to return to the office full-time.
Sphere offers a better alternative: working together virtually as if you're in the same physical space, while utilizing the entire environment as a canvas to foster a natural and engaging experience.
Sphere Modernizes Coworking to Transform Enterprise Operations
Sphere’s XR software brings the speed, power and deep insights offered by technology into the physical world where humans most naturally interact.
XR's True Potential is Unlocked Through Collaboration
The company sets itself apart by delivering purpose-built enterprise XR deployments that truly unlock value. Sphere's platform creates powerful network effects by being a spatial, multi-user knowledge hub. This approach has attracted leading global companies who are now poised to scale their businesses with Sphere's powerful solutions.
Fortune 500 companies trust Sphere to future-proof their businesses. Its cutting-edge technology is proven to boost their bottom line, ensuring they stay ahead of the competition.
Product
Giving AI "Eyes and Ears" Through XR
The iconic birth of advanced computing with humanized interactions: voice, sight, and gestures
Until recently, artificial intelligence (AI) – the 21st century’s productivity powerhouse - has been constrained by 20th century, text-based interfaces. Now, Sphere is offering a multi-model, context-dependent input system to AI.
Why? Firstly, because it's the most natural way to interact with the technology. But also, it provides AI with unparalleled contextual understanding of the users' physical environment, which leads to revolutionary applications — in other words, XR behaves as the "body" and AI as the "brain".
Sphere has secured buy-in from Fortune-500 customers, solidifying the value proposition of this groundbreaking functionality.
Plus, they are teaming up with key collaborators to supercharge market adoption. This includes a strategic partnership with AWS to integrate their powerful Amazon Q technology – a specialized “Chat-GPT” designed for enterprises that offers a direct and secure integration with internal data streams.
This groundbreaking feature doesn't just enhance existing XR use cases, it unlocks entirely new and unimaginably powerful possibilities.
Example Use-Cases:
Real-Time Equipment Servicing
Using Sphere's AI-Copilot, users can simply look at equipment to trigger maintenance workflows, without manual selection. This saves time, effort, and reduces the risk of human error. The integration can also provide more comprehensive and up-to-date information about the equipment or task at hand to factor in context and offer intelligent suggestions, thereby streamlining the servicing process.
Design Review
Sphere's AI-Copilot can expedite design reviews by instantly tapping into enterprise and global data resources, providing real-time responses. Moreover, designers can seamlessly fine-tune assets using spoken instructions, enabling exploration of aspects like color, texture, size, and proportions, all while witnessing real-time, true-to-life 3D model adjustments within natural surroundings. Effectively functioning as an additional team member or thought partner, the integration can proactively identify design disparities and offer alternatives early in the design review cycle, curtailing cost overruns and expediting product launches.
Business Workshops
Engaging in conversation within Sphere's XR environment, the AI-Copilot seamlessly integrates with teams in their natural space, while offering unparalleled access to a virtually limitless wealth of information. It ushers in a revolution in XR-powered meetings by acting as a real-time knowledge catalyst, instantly supplying critical insights and information to participants, thereby promoting well-informed discussions and decision-making.
Remote Expert Assistance
With the introduction of the AI-Copilot within Sphere, employees gain the ability to effortlessly contact a relevant expert (inside or outside the organization) by simply articulating the nature of their predicament, while also being able to proactively share pertinent information with the expert prior to the call, expediting problem-solving and minimizing costly downtime.
Traction
Well-Positioned for Future Expansion
Sphere Has Mastered the Key Ingredients for Scalable XR Deployments
Sphere's Partner Program Fuels Growth and Unlocks Exciting Opportunities
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Business model
A Robust Business Model
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Vision and strategy
Sphere's Collaborative Funding Strategy
Sphere's successful $8M Series A raise solidified the company's position as a leading force in the XR industry. Leveraging their momentum, the team is seeking additional funding to accelerate development of Sphere's groundbreaking AI initiative, positioning the company to achieve its ambitious revenue projection.