Do you recall how popular Pokémon GO was in 2016? Everyone was preoccupied with locating new Pokémon and checkpoints. The craze was so widespread that it caused havoc in public areas all across the world and was even outlawed in certain towns. The game was unusual in that it made use of the phone’s location and camera to allow players to catch Pokémon in real-time.
It was the world’s first significant mobile Augmented Reality (AR) game. AR’s beginnings may be traced back to 1968 when Harvard’s Ivan Sutherland developed the first AR headgear. The first AR application, however, was released in 2008.
Virtual Reality (VR), on the other hand, may be traced all the way back to Sir Charles Wheatstone’s description of stereopsis in 1838. Stereopsis is a word that refers to the sense of depth and three-dimensional structure based on visual information conveyed to the brain from the eyes.
Morton Heilig invented the first virtual reality machine in 1956. It was made up of a variety of technologies, including a 3D screen, audio, and sensory stimulators. Since then, virtual reality has found its way into a variety of applications, including video games, virtual amusement rides, and google maps, to name a few.
The world is continually changing as a result of exciting emerging technologies. It is necessary to stay current with this new technology. Keeping up with new technology always results in significant and attractive developments in any profession.
Technological advancements help evolve the human world. Unsurprisingly, these technologies will affect everyone’s lives. Its capacity to provide individuals with contextually-relevant information that is incorporated into their experience of the physical environment is one of its primary capabilities. These technologies immerse you in the actual world and enable you to communicate with anybody, at any time, from the comfort of your own home.
A company that stands tall in handling these technologies is Someshwara Software Pvt Ltd. With providing a wide array of services, Someshwara is giving world-class experience to people. In this journey of Someshwara, Mr Basavaraj Pujar, CEO and Founder, played an important role in creating a long-lasting global impact.
The Genesis of the Company
Basavaraj Pujar started his journey on Someshwara in 2016. His first company was a mobile application company, and he started his second company in the gaming field. Someshwara did not want to concentrate only on gaming, its vision was to work with different technologies along with gaming. Web, visualizations are at their peak now, he has the zeal to work with these technologies.
As Someshwara wanted to do a lot more than just gaming. He shifted his 2nd company to 3rd company that is Someshwara Software Pvt Ltd., that worked for cutting edge technology.
The company created many software and worked with AR, VR, Metaverse, gaming technology, AI/ML altogether. They played an important part in their tech-savvy software. The company also worked on cloud computing, but its main focus was always on AR, VR, Metaverse, Gaming and AI/ML. The company did a lot of enterprise software development too.
In 2019, Basavaraj’s company picked up very well. He got an opportunity to develop the world’s first augmented reality drone simulator for Epson in 2018 with previous employer. In 2018 Basavaraj’s team developed one game with partnership with characters from Viacom and Nickelodeon, and in first 28 days of the release got one million downloads. All the downloads were from India. Currently, the game has crossed 11 million downloads, and it is doing good. On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary, the Government of India (DST) and Unity3D introduced a contest called for Immersive AR and VR contest, and Someshwara Software are winners of the contest. Someshwara chose cleanliness as the concept from Gandhi’s Principles.
After Someshwara’s hard work, it serves a lot of enterprises based in the U.S, Canada, Europe and India. There was no looking back after 2019 for Someshwara. The company also endeavoured for the training of VR, AR and Gaming.
Rewards and Awards
The first achievement is the game that Someshwara launched. It crossed 11 million downloads which is a huge accomplishment. In the google play store or the Apple store, there are many games, but only 6000 games have crossed the mark of 11 million downloads, and Someshwara’s product is one of those.
The second milestone was when the company became the Winner of the Immersive AR/VR Game Contest from Unity 3D And DST, Government of India – 2018
The third wave of happiness was when the government of Karnataka (KSTEP) asked Someshwara to design software to bring Pilikula a Science museum into virtual world to showcase premises to PM Modi. Someshwara went ahead a step further to bring lots of science experiments with full real interactivity to perform experiments. It won best solution award in Indian Science Congress 2020.
Blessing in Hardships
During the Pandemic, the major challenge was reimbursing. The company took an opportunity on the product they were working on earlier. The company introduced a Virtual exhibition platform where people can exhibit and participate in it. This software for the exhibition was designed by Someshwara. While this period, the market picked up well, according to Basavaraj. In the pandemic, all the verticals like AR, VR, AI picked up at high speed.
Valuable Advice
Now the world is talking about Metaverse. Metaverse is related to AR, VR, gaming tech, 3D, NFT and blockchain, it not very different from that. Communication, data exchange, everything can be done by metaverse and within virtual world. Metaverse is very huge, and everything can be done in it in the future. Metaverse and Virtual reality is going to be very huge.
Many people are venturing into AR and VR space, and they think it is just 3D technology. But it is beyond one’s imagination. It is the biggest world out there in 3D, AR and VR. AR and VR technology is going to bring huge change.
“Create solutions which facilitate creation of apps in virtual world, there are a lot of things that needs to be developed. There is a huge scope for Metaverse, AR and VR in the upcoming future. You just need to create and start innovations,” says Basavaraj.
“Creating new solutions and investing in them has a bright future. Think in a way that will enhance Metaverse, AR and VR technologies. Think about creating applications that will help connect the world,” adds Basavaraj.
