Undercurrent VR's original offering opened on January 19, 2018 and was completed on May 8, 2018. Except for the Updates section which may contain more recent information, the information on this page was accurate as of May 8, 2018.

Undercurrent VR

UCVR is a technology and a format to redefine how people consume their media.

Introducing Undercurrent VR

Undercurrent VR Inc. is introducing a brand new, plenoptic-based, virtual reality format that differs from the competition by not needing any goggles or headsets to operate. Undercurrent’s customer base will be educational institutions, corporate advertising agencies, rental houses, networks and potentially many other outlets catering to their specific consumer base. UCVR is a B2B SaaS Corporation based out of New York.

“Undercurrent VR's technology can introduce a whole new ​market for virtual reality to the world. For my company CyberClaz, we are very certain that this format will engage the students in a way they have not been engaged previously.”
Shibi Salim, CEO of SenzIT (IBM Partnered Company)

Problem

In the current landscape of VR, the format is dependent upon cumbersome headsets that create eye strain and disorientation through extended use. This also limits the content to the particular (proprietary) format of the headset, has overly digitized content, and is too expensive for the average consumer to afford. Current virtual-reality headsets are accompanied by lengthy disclaimers warning of seizures, eye strain, nausea. One company even states that "prolonged use should be avoided, as this could negatively impact hand-eye coordination, balance and multitasking ability.”

Solution

Undercurrent VR is creating a content-focused virtual reality format that can bridge the gap between the traditional ways of receiving media with the interactive elements of goggle-based virtual reality. The Undercurrent VR Format will provide a goggle-free virtual reality experience, available for online streaming and free for the consumer. The goal is to consolidate this generation’s virtual reality content consumption to the UCVR format pertaining to advertising, education, narrative content, and sports-related video games.

UCVR is focused on utilizing the most advanced cloud computing and rising internet speeds across the globe to distribute our next generation light-field technology that lives between digital and live-capture content.

How it works

The UCVR Format will allow a user to experience virtual reality from their personal device. Imagine you are watching a video of a person speaking on your computer. If you move to the left, you will see more of the right side of the person. The movements you make will affect what you see, just like in real life. This novel approach to virtual reality is easier to implement and integrate into wider consumer culture than a fully immersive headset, and offers numerous applications in various markets.

Market

UCVR products and services contain the potential to disrupt a number of markets including digital advertising, remote education, and sports video games.

The first markets that UCVR will be targeting are digital advertising and remote education. Digital advertising provides an exciting medium for the Undercurrent VR Format to engage consumers. UCVR will first target digital advertising markets in Japan and South Korea for two primary reasons: First, median bandwidth requirements to run the ads are estimated to be as high as 1 GBPS and Japan and South Korea have some of the fastest internet in the world. Second, Japan’s embrace of digital consumerism provides a primed culture for this technology. The digital ad market in Japan alone is expected to reach $14.6 billion by 2022.

Eventually, UCVR will build up to narrative content in a brand new, sub-conscience choose-your-own-adventure movie format. Future Goal-Posts include IMAX-like cinema openings for a collective Choose-Your-Own-Adventure premiere of a blockbuster film.

Competitive Landscape

Competition for UCVR could be considered the virtual reality pioneers, like Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard or Samsung. For the virtue of larger corporations like Disney and IMAX theaters and content creation on the narrative front, UCVR poses a large threat of disruption. UCVR will be a corporation known for the values of the consumer and the quality of content production. We will encourage physical activity in the sports gaming culture and treat our employees, clients and investors fairly.

Currently, virtual reality without goggles is completely revolutionary for content creators.

Business Model

UCVR will have proprietary ownership over the format and distribution of the content. Formatted as a B2B SaaS (Business to Business & Software as a Service) revenue structure, advertising clients would need to license the software that provides the interactive format of the Undercurrent Capture System (UCS) content. The target client in our initial market strategy will be advertising firms with relations to Japanese and Korean advertising markets and production therein.

Progress

CEO Drew Moore has been working within commercial production for the past eight years in NYC. He has direct contacts to the owners and production managers of Smuggler NYC, Epoch., DRIVER, Ghost Robot, ROKKAN and other top of the line advertising agencies and production companies. Once the technology is properly patented and technical and design elements are finalized, the company will move to distribute this system to professional production rental houses around the country.

UCVR is working on a partnership with the SenzIT company CyberClaz with backing from IBM to utilize the UCVR Format in CyberClaz, a remote-educational platform. The company’s deal with CyberClaz is still to be negotiated for licensing rates. It’s the company's position to take a moral compass, providing cheap-to free licensing to disenfranchised communities in this educational platform and charging premiums to for-profit charter and private institutions.

UCVR has opened discussions with PureLogic in establishing the necessary back-end and streaming obligations for the Current VR Display Software to function properly. The current strategy is to establish local cloud-server space for UCVR content that streams through a temporary consumer access. The soft launch in Tokyo, Japan will start to prove the company’s market value, and on lean start-up principles, Undercurrent VR will order more servers to be built and maintained in our market at cost to the client.

Success

The first steps taken after the founders concepted this virtual reality format was the patent search. An international patent search through Litman Law confirmed that there is no light-field technology patented for virtual reality use.

Multiple consultations have been made with friends and programmers in the VR industry to resounding support of the format and functionality. Undercurrent has negotiated a partnership with a developer team that has deep experience in stitching as well as motion-initiated programs from working for companies such as Oculus Rift.

The relationship developing with CyberClaz may have extraordinary impact on the development of the required infrastructure and revenue streams. Though Undercurrent is in the early stages of development with SenzIT, the prospective upside of pairing with a rising company should give Undercurrent an advantage.

Team

The core team of Undercurrent VR Inc. includes the founders, researchers, programmers and back-end developers. Andy Sahlstrom, our CTO and Head of Manufacturing comes from a masters at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU TISH while the CEO Drew Moore has a decade of experience producing film, television, commercials and music videos in New York City. These two have the combined knowledge of industry, production and technology to carry out the successful launch of this new virtual reality format.

Drew Moore
Co-Founder and CEO

Drew works in film and television production on Majors such as Gotham and Kick (Iron Fist), produces award winning MFA films from SBU and SVA (“Inferno”- DGA Best Student Film, “Longing” - Best Student Film from Big Apple Film Festival & London International Film Festival) and manages writers and directors out of New York City.

Drew graduated BYU-I Online at age 16 through independent study to move to New York City to The School for Film and Television graduate program, from which he graduated at age 19 as the youngest in his class.

Andy Sahlstrom
Co-Founder and CTO

Andy works as a creative engineer for interactive advertising firm, Moey Inc. Andy prototypes and engineers side projects for inventors and has been commissioned to build digitally programmable looms and forced-perspective advertisements among other projects.

Andy designed, engineered and built a new instrument made out of magnets and tuning forks powered by electromagnetic waves.

Use of Proceeds


If the offering's maximum amount of $100,000 is raised:

UseValue% of Proceeds
Compensation for Directors, Officers, and Promoters$30,00030.0%
Working Capital$45,00045.0%
Equipment / Machinery$14,00014.0%
Real Estate$6,1006.1%
Intermediary fees$4,9004.9%

Terms

This number includes all funds raised by the Company in this round on Netcapital. This is an offering of Common Stock, under registration exemption 4(a)(6), in Undercurrent VR INC. This offering must reach its target of at least $10,000 by its offering deadline of May 8, 2018 at 4:00pm ET. If this offering does not reach its target by the offering deadline, then your money will be refunded.

If the offering is successful at raising the maximum amount, then the company’s implied valuation after the offering (sometimes called its post-money valuation) will be:

79,717 shares
×
$10 per share
$797,170implied valuation

Financials

SEC Filings

The Offering Statement is a formal description of the company and this transaction. It’s filed with the SEC to comply with the requirements of exemption 4(a)(6) of the Securities Act of 1933.

We’re also required to share links to each of the SEC filings related to this offering with investors.

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More Info

Updates

  • May 14, 2018
  • May 8, 2018
    Primary offering finalized, selling 1,283 shares
    Sold 1,283 shares at $10 for a total of $12,830
  • Jan 19, 2018
    Primary offering of 10,000 shares at $10
  • Jan 19, 2018

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