Panoramia

Virtual windows for elevators

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Virtual windows for elevators

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This is awesome! It reminds my of the elevators in one world trade center, NYC. Who is your target customer right now? Hotels? I could see you also using this as a digital "pin" board. Letting a hotel inform customers about events and such. You could do a lot with it. What are some future features you are planning?

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9yr ago

Panoramia

Maker

@james_osullivan I'm very happy that you like it, thanks! Our target is high-rise buildings/premium properties in general, located in CBD districts. Hotels are definitely on the radar. We've just started so we need time to get to know the market. Our roadmap t this point is to get grow our library of visualizations so that we can launch a SaaS solution to enable customers to change the view with an app. Everything will be customized this first stage but our goal is to have a high degree of standardized visualizations. With that said, your idea is definitely valid and I'm sure we'll need to evaluate features and use scenarios like that.

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9yr ago

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@perholmlund @james_osullivan Ad platforms in elevators (like Captivate) seem to have done well because (I assume) they pay elevator operators rather than needing to be paid by them. Have you considered an ad-based model? Elevators are great because it's one of the few environments where the audience is truly captive, bored, and can't block you.

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9yr ago

@perholmlund. Cool! Thank you. Also, I have to say, that is a great landing page you have. The GIF is perfect. Totally understand what it does without having to scroll or play a video. I hope to ride a elevator with your product in it! Looks like it will be a lot of fun. (sorry I put this on another thread by accident.)

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9yr ago

Panoramia

Maker

@zackbloom Absolutely true! And yes, we've discussed the possibility of ads but decided to stick with the strategy of developing a product for the upscale market, ie those who can and want to invest in an interior environment without ads. With that said, there is a possibility to customize visualizations and make them very brand compliant, depending on who is using the elevator.

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9yr ago

Very nice, in case you don't want to look into a mirror during that time spend [when avoiding stairs] ;-) What I am curious about is the future ratio between watching real landscape images and commercials...

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9yr ago

Panoramia

Maker

@hansjgilg Thanks, get your point -- no ads in plan whatsoever. There are possibilities for tailored branding but Panoramia is a premium product for the most demanding customers and properties.

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9yr ago

Gulp

@perholmlund @hansjgilg commercials would be downright abusive at that visual scale. Please don't.. On the other hand, "native" ads could actually be kind of cool since this almost amounts to a 2-D "VR" experience. Like if it was an Audi ad, and you slowly (in a drone-like manner) ascended and hovered over the Nuremberg as an S4 roared down the highway.

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9yr ago

@wuss @perholmlund @hansjgilg or you drift over a valley alongside a branded hot air balloon. That sort of thing.

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9yr ago

Omg! It's fantastic! Is this picture is a computer graphics? Are you going to make a realtime translations from webcams?

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9yr ago

Panoramia

Maker

@perpetuous Thanks! Yes, it's animated 3D visualizations so we can create practically any kind of environment. Real footage is a possibility but our experience so far is that it's very difficult to make it "come alive". You won't get a feeling of 3D with objects moving at different speeds such as birds, clouds, other buildings etc without making it too impractical to implement. So our take is to recreate the surrounding environment, not using real footage.

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9yr ago

Reposted my comment on the right thread this time lol

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9yr ago

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From the landing page: "office workers in New York City spend close to 6 years inside elevators throughout their career." There's just no way that's true. That would mean over a fourty year career you spend 15% of your time in the elevator, or in an eight hour day, an hour and twenty minutes.

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9yr ago

Panoramia

Maker

@zackbloom Yes, sounds pretty insane but it's from an IBM report: http://www.networkworld.com/arti...

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9yr ago

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@perholmlund Ah, I think I see your confusion. I believe the report was totaling all the time workers spent during that 12 month period. So all workers collectively lost six years of productivity in the past one year. It's not an individual number, and it's not meant to be across their entire career.

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9yr ago

Panoramia

Maker

@zackbloom oh, you're totally right, thanks for pointing that out. I blame language confusion and sloppiness from our end ;-)

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9yr ago

Hotel Finder

@zackbloom I am one of those office workers in New York City, trust me it is true. Needless to say we hate the time spent in elevators!

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9yr ago

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@ramsocializing You spend over an hour a day in, or waiting for, elevators?

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9yr ago

Okay, so the problem with this is people are now looking out the BACK of the elevator (with their own backs facing the doors), which goes against the social norms. How will this product solve for that?

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9yr ago

Panoramia

Maker

@bb8orr2d2 The placement is optional. There are in almost all cases at least two walls that you can choose from.

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9yr ago

Panoramia

Maker

Hi all, I wanted to take this opportunity to present ourselves as we're launching this week. Panoramia is an interior design technology company that has productized what previously was complicated and very expensive to accomplish for individual property owners and property developers - virtual windows for elevators. It's an out-of-the-box solution with hardware and software that seamlessly can be integrated in one or more walls in almost any kind of elevator. With our proprietary 3D visualizations displaying on the large high-res screens, ordinary elevator rides become journeys through any imaginable landscape. Please let us know if you have any questions or comments!

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9yr ago

Hotel Finder

I am one of those workers in New York City stuck in elevators. You will need to change the virtual environment multiple times in a day otherwise it will get old very fast. And then people will start ignoring it. Also something more dynamic will keep everyday office goers engaged.

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9yr ago

Panoramia

Maker

@ramsocializing Thanks for the feedback! In the pipe is a visualizations-on-demand feature via an app but we need to grow the library before it makes sense.

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