SBIR/STTR Research Award
Improved Virtual Classrooms
Award amount
$49,997Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- PIQPIQ, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2021-02-05
- Contract end date
- 2021-05-03
- UEI
- J81ML76VN6B4
- Solicitation number
- X20.3
- Topic code
- AF203-CSO1
Research abstract
Hearo eVenues are the next generation of virtual classrooms and large-scale virtual meetings. They use broadcast-quality audio and video that is higher quality, lower cost, and more scalable than webinar or conferencing technology. For the audience, they provide an intuitive experience closer to an in-venue experience, where the audience is always live and can respond naturally, by talking, at any scale. Webinars have a silent audience and video conferencing scales poorly by comparison. Hearo layers live social engagement over nearly any media broadcast. Hearo turns any broadcast into a live and authentic experience adding audiences of unlimited size to live streams or video on demand (VoD). Hearo is a virtual venue for: eClassrooms for teaching (even how to master a game) Any size watching party (Twitch streams, YouTube) Study Groups (AF Facebook “Quarantine University”) eSports (Academy athletic events) Product Launches (Hearo.Live eVenue, F-35, etc.) eTheaters (movies, plays, concerts, etc.) Public Relations (PR) Events Agencies can host expos, symposiums, conferences
Technology keywords
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