The Era of 3D Asset Management - Interview with Startups of the Year Nominee, echo3D

Hey Hackers,

echo3D has been nominated in HackerNoon's annual Startup of the Year awards in New York City, NY, USA.

Please vote for us here: https://hackernoon.com/startups/north-america/north-america-manhattan-nyc-ny

Read more about us below to understand why we deserve your vote.

Meet echo3D

echo3D (www.echo3D.com) is a 3D asset management platform that enables developers to manage, update, and stream 3D, AR/VR, Metaverse, & Spatial Computing content to real-time apps and games.

We offer a 3D-first content management system (CMS) and delivery network (CDN), asset compression and conversion tools, and a scalable BaaS infrastructure that enable developers to build a 3D/AR/VR app backend in minutes, and then manage, process & stream 3D content to their 3D/AR/VR app or game in real-time & across devices.

We serve over 65,000 developers using our SDKs to create real-time 3D experiences (for healthcare, entertainment, retail, gaming, training, and more) and have deployed AR+5G projects with both Verizon and AT&T.

echo3D signed partnerships with Unity3D, the world's leading game engine, NextNav (Nasdaq: NN), and more.

echo3D is backed by Qualcomm Ventures, Konvoy Ventures, Remagine Ventures, Space Capital, and Techstars, and received grants from Y Combinator, Verizon, and NYC Media Lab. We won the Auggie Award for Best Developer Tool at AWE 2023, won the Best Web3 Award at CES 2023, were named among LG's First 50, named AR/VR finalists for SXSW 2020, won the DevProject Award 2019, named among the 2019 Most Fundable Companies, named one of the Top 25 finalists in Sir Richard Branson's Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) 2019, and featured on VentureBeat, The Hill, XRToday, Bold TV, and CTech.

How We're Disrupting/Improving the 3D Industry

Building 3D applications is hard. Our 3D asset management platform solves that. Developers struggle to create scalable and dynamic 3D/AR/VR apps. Today’s 3D/AR/VR apps are single-user experiences with static and hard-to-update content. It’s difficult to update 3D content across different platforms which often have platform-specific specifications. Developers struggle to onboard clients since any change in the app results in endless development cycles. In order to scale the development of front-end-heavy experiences like 3D/AR/VR apps, a cross-platform backend infrastructure is needed: “the AWS of 3D/AR/VR”. Before starting our company, we conduct interviews with developers who validated that key development tools are missing. We decided to build it for them.

Today, we help developers and companies move their 3D assets to the cloud, allowing them to reduce their app size, update 3D content remotely, and stream new updates in real-time to different platforms, without the need to re-develop or re-deploy their apps. Businesses love us since we help them build better & more engaging 3D apps in a cost-effective way, and developers love us since we make their lives easier, with our seamless integration to all popular development environments, game engines, and XR frameworks and SDKs.

Our mission is to help developers & companies manage and stream 3D assets and our vision is to become the #1 platform of cloud services for 3D apps

Standing Out from The Crowd

echo3D is redefining how people create 3D, Metaverse, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and spatial computing experiences.

We make it simple for developers to host, manage, and publish 3D content with our flexible cloud infrastructure, intuitive content management system, fast content delivery network, and other best-in-class tools.

With a killer team of 3D industry experts and pioneers, we focus on providing the easiest way for developers (just like us!) to deliver fresh 3D content instantly with no redevelopment or redeployment needed.

echo3D is proudly backed by Qualcomm Ventures, Konvoy Ventures, Remagine Ventures, Space Capital, and Techstars, and recently won the Auggie Award for Best Developer Tool at AWE 2023,

Our Predictions/Thoughts on the 3D Industry in 2023

When Apple releases something, the world pays attention — especially when it’s the long-anticipated XR headset they started R&D on in 2015. Along with the announcement of Apple Vision Pro, Apple also announced visionOS, the operating system that the headset will run on. This additional catalyst for growth of the 3D industry will inspire more people to consider the need for 3D asset management.

More and more businesses are going 3D and offering AR/VR experiences for the Metaverse, gaming,

healthcare, industrial use cases, entertainment, eCommerce & retail, marketing, education & training, and more. Platforms like echo3D already help you integrate into Apple’s development pipeline.

Why we decided to participate in HackerNoon's Startup of the Year awards

We’re looking to share our love of 3D software development and HackerNoon is one of the best places to engage with passionate developers. We offer the best way to manage 3D assets and offer all seasoned and aspiring developers a platform that enables them to manage, update, and stream 3D content in real-time to 3D/AR/VR apps and games across devices, and deliver fresh 3D content instantly with no redevelopment or redeployment needed. Start for free here.

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