Getvu Is Ushering in Augmented Reality to Revolutionise the Way Warehouses and Shop Floors Work.
When you enter GetVu’s office in Bengaluru, you are likely to find people wearing weird looking glasses and trying to grasp something from thin air. A few others are wired to their computers oblivious to their surroundings. Looking a lot like the Facebook Oculus Rift, their glass product is called PikVu, which the three co-founders have developed using augmented reality (AR). It is now being used in warehouses to improve the efficiency of the workers by almost 25%. Its second product, RemoteVu, enables a service engineer to view faulty machinery from a remote location. It was one of those things that the 20-some things did for fun and eventually turned into a phenomenon.
TAKING OFF
Santhosh Chandrasekar, chief executive officer, is the ‘visionary’ among the three. College lore had it that, if one had an idea and did not know what to do about it, Chandrasekar was your go-to guy. On the contrary, Rakesh Ramaswamy, the chief marketing officer, has been a business guy since school. Often he took an uncommon pleasure in managing the supply and demand mismatch. If one had something to sell, and did not know where to sell, Ramaswamy offered his services. “I always liked the idea of trade,” says Ramaswamy.
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