![]() ![]() “The premise of Beem is that there’s going to be an inevitable next step in the way that humans communicate digitally, which is more credible and more immersive than doing a video call.” “But then we kind of stopped,” says Amstutz. Meanwhile, communications continued to evolve from home telephones to cell phones to Skype. “We put a very big emphasis on face-to-face communication,” he explains of his alternative childhood environment’s lack of modern technology. ![]() Beem CEO Janosch Amstutz describes his parents as “hippies” who lived in a small Australian beachside town, Byron Bay, where they raised cows and chickens, used solar power, collected rainwater and didn’t even have a telephone - just a two-way radio that the community would share. Surprisingly, the idea for the startup comes from a founder who grew up without much access to technology. But using AR for telepresence, as Beem intends, isn’t a common use case. What’s the next step beyond Zoom calls and FaceTime? How about beaming yourself from one device to another in real time using augmented reality? That’s the premise behind a startup called Beem, which is today announcing its first consumer app, $4 million in seed funding and its longer-term plan to become a communications technology for the AR glasses of the future.Ĭonsumers today know AR technology thanks to interactions with Snapchat Lenses and TikTok Effects, through mobile games like Pokémon GO and by visualizing products they’re considering buying - like furniture they place in their room, or makeup they virtually try on via an AR filter. ![]()
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