35 teams reached the final of the largest Russian accelerator out of 3,500 startups. And seven of them were chosen yesterday, who fought for prizes of 8, 5 and 3 million rubles. Although more important for them was the opportunity to speak to investors and accelerator partners, including AirBus and Michelin.
This year, the GenerationS accelerator finals the project of augmented reality for imposing special effects during the shooting of the ViewGA film, using the technology of which they filmed
Time of the First and Crew, the genetic platform for identifying the likelihood of cancer yRisk, which explores dozens of times more probabilities, IRway night vision system, RollTech platform for tracking the work of every detail and every product in the enterprise. Only seven projects struggled for the main prizes of 8, 5 and 3 million rubles. They were received by the projects IRway, Hydraulic Packer and VR Concept, but we will tell about all seven teams that performed on the main stage of the final.
ViewGA
The ViewGA filmed “Crew”, “Time First”, “Movement Up”, “He is a Dragon” and “Partner” films with the hardware and software complex of virtual and augmented reality. “Crew” and “Time of the First” later received the Golden Eagle award for the best special effects. ViewGA is a development by CGF.
Shooting movies with a lot of computer graphics are complex, the scenes require a lot of follow-up work. At the site, the director and the entire crew see only the green background. ViewGA in real time complements frames with computer graphics and works in two modes: augmented reality and virtual camera.
The founder said that in 2 months about 20% of the movie “Crew” was shot by him along with director Nikolai Lebedev. Filming took place in the studio CGFactory, where there is an R & D laboratory. The 3 × 5 meter room is equipped with a virtual camera: on the walls and the ceiling there are markers that help the ViewGA virtual camera to orient in space. The camera itself consists of a riga (frame), similar to a movie camera, and sensors that track its position with the help of markers. The movement data is transmitted to a three-dimensional editor with a pre-loaded scene, such as an airplane taking off from a burning airfield. Stanislav moved around the room, the director immediately saw these shots and commented on them.
The shooting of the film “Time of the First” took place together with the actors in the black room. The background can be any, but this color was chosen to make it easier to shoot cosmic scenes. The system immediately on the site complemented the frames with computer graphics. In real time, the background was replaced with photo-realistic computer graphics, which was displayed at the operator and director and which the actors could see. This made it possible to avoid compositional errors, errors with synchronization and light.
According to the developers, the project has no Russian analogues, and foreign ones are notable for their high cost.
Camera from ViewGA autographed by Alexey Leonov. Facebook
Virtual camera modeHydraulic packer
Packer - a device for the point of supply of the working fluid to the desired depth, horizon or bottom hole. It is used, for example, for the repair of wells inside
casing . Oil packers are not suitable for some works, because their diameter is more than a meter. In these cases, use expensive sets of equipment for washing wells (KOPS) or
coiled tubing .
Engineer Mikhail Samokhvalov introduced the hydraulic packer, which reduces the cost of work up to four times, also thanks to speed. On the scale of the well, speed plays an important role - idle time costs about one million rubles per day. This result was achieved thanks to a modular design with threaded connections, which can be repaired during operation.
Samokhvalov published several scientific articles on the specialty (
“Results of field and theoretical studies on the manufacture of a brown injection pile with controlled broadening ,
” “Results of theoretical studies on the interaction of a brown injection pile, having a controlled broadening, with a silty clay foundation” ) and patented a
utility model .
The device successfully works in the construction field. In Tyumen, with its help, strengthened the foundation of the building belonging to the objects of cultural heritage, and corrected the list of a 14-storey building. In both cases, the problem was solved by injecting the solution into the soil.
The developers are planning to expand the business to other areas and use the device in oil and gas production, but this requires investments for improvement.
VR Concept
For any engineering designs they make mockups in order to carry out mock up commissions and discussions; sometimes this requires going on business trips. All this requires material costs and delays the development process. Software for remote work and new methods of data visualization can help in this situation.
VR Concept is designed to work together with a 3D model of products in virtual reality. The developers say that the solution supports the main systems of virtual reality, does not require time for integration. The system
is included in the Unified Register of Russian software.
The company has more than 10 customers and more than 100 potential customers who show interest. These are construction and engineering companies, as well as the educational industry. The startup received a grant from Microsoft of 120 thousand dollars for development in the Azure cloud and reached 500 thousand dollars by 2017.
Competitors - game engines and solutions for virtual prototyping. The developers of VR Concept believe that their competitive advantage is the simplicity of the user interface. The founders of the company have more than 10 years of experience in the virtual reality market, mainly in solving industrial problems.
By 2020, they consider their achievable market volume at $ 16 million, and they predict an estimate of the company's value at $ 100 million after three years.
Rolltech
The main problem in production is to monitor the performance of products when ordering and voicing warranty obligations by the supplier. It is difficult to determine whether the product has worked its life, how it works in a particular area, if it is thousands of identical models of pumps, rollers or bolts. Such products are taken into account only under supply contracts on a quarter or year scale.
Nikita Naumov, founder of RollTech, introduced a platform that reduces costs in enterprises. Its platform is designed to track products and track the real work of each product in the factory.
RollTech solves the problem by applying a label to analyze the work of the product and compare work with the same products in other areas. The main goal is to ensure continuous operation during the contract. The company conducted an audit of twenty companies, including Severstal and Alrosa, signed agreements with foreign companies, and is now working with them on an ongoing basis.
yRisk
Over the past ten years
in Russia, the incidence of cancer has increased by 10-15% . Although in the early stages, I and II, cancer is detected in 55-60% of cases, the likelihood of developing tumors can be reduced through diagnosis. Mortality in the United States from breast cancer is significantly lower than in Russia, including due to a higher rate of detection of the disease at an early stage.
Risk factors include not only bad ecology and unhealthy lifestyle, but also genetics. A genetic test for cancer risks is the main focus of yRisk. The company analyzes 42 genes, family history and makes personal recommendations.
In the US, the market for genetic tests is not only huge - $ 5 billion - but also grows annually by 20-30%. One third of this market is genetic tests for cancer. In Russia, the laboratory diagnostics market is 74 billion rubles and is also growing, genetic tests occupy 3 billion rubles and are growing faster than other segments.
According to the team, now the majority of players in the Russian market use outdated technologies, such as microchip PCR. Only a number of companies use sequencing new generation NGS. If tumor markers (CA-125 + HE-4) have a sensitivity of 40-70% and therefore are not recommended for screening in Europe and the USA, then for NGS this figure exceeds 99%.
The developers said that the program had a good composition of mentors, including oratorical skills, and the company was also able to meet with a representative of the TilTech Capital fund.
Mandarin
Startup Mandarin made a consumer finance payment service. The founder of the company began his presentation with a story about a country in which 83% of the population had never been involved in sports, 62% had not traveled abroad, 60% had been learning for the last time only at school. This country is Albert Einstein of the USA.
The company sees the main problem of people in that the things that make them happier are always expensive, and therefore they cannot afford them. Service Mandarin, according to the developers, allows you to live a more active life, paying for sports, tourism and educational services in installments. The volume of these markets in Russia, according to the company, is 20 billion dollars. Earns service on the percentage of transactions.
IRway
The IRway car night vision system can be installed on any car or small tonnage vessel. She projects a color image onto the windshield in the area of constant visual control under the rear-view salon mirror. The startup worked with end users and car manufacturers, sold and installed more than 500 sets of the system.
Driver assistance systems can be developed and implemented at the production stage of a new car. Therefore, it makes sense to work directly with automakers. In 2016-2017, test tests were conducted with KAMAZ, they signed a roadmap of joint work with the company, according to which in a few years all new KAMAZ vehicles will be equipped with a standard night vision system. This is about 40 thousand units per year.
During the program, IRway designed an industrial batch production project and sales channels for the B2C market and received several investment proposals. Now the company plans to refine the product to a “box solution” available in any store and develop work with control systems for unmanned vehicles. The project leader believes that in addition to lidars and well-developed maps of the area, drones need a high-quality video signal. Thermal cameras have low detailing and “do not see” objects with ambient temperature, IR cameras are “blind” from oncoming headlights, and the IRway solution is free from these disadvantages.
