Mike Charalambous

Threedium

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Bro-Founder

Frenzi Media

Frenzi Media is an advertising tech company that specialises on building and distributing interactive content for brands worldwide. 

Frenzi Ads are the most engaging Ad-Block-free interactive ads on the internet. We help our partners boost their brand awareness through immersive, interactive content that keeps users active and on-site longer, thus resulting in better ad monetization opportunities.

Managing Director

Takis Angelides Furnihome

•	Developed company’s new interactive website (www.taf.com.cy) with online CRM applications. Website traffic increased by 83% and retention rate of online users increased by 65%.
•	Created and lead a team of people responsible for digital transformation project and embedded online-to-offline channels for sales.
•	Initiated the company’s shift towards Social Media platforms, by establishing a YouTube Channel and accounts in Facebook and Twitter. Social Media organic reach increased by 944% and Twitter promotions reached more than 200,000 users.

Digital Strategy Manager

Bacanal media and entertainment

Hosting pop-up events around CyprusBacanal drawing inspiration from our diverse backgrounds and favourite revelries around the world.

Our events serve as an outlet for our passion for music, and luxury entertainment and hospitality. Since the inaugural event, our focus has been on providing an experience that combines epicurean food, euphoric energy and entertainment and a distinguished clientele in a champagne brunch setting
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Each event features talented and exciting live musicians, DJs and other performers, and draws an invitation only crowd of fun-loving, well heeled young professionals, artists, trend setters, and globetrotters. Bacanal delivers all the ingredients necessary to deliver a unique, extremely high-energy and festive atmosphere which keeps our customers coming back for more.

Head of Bacanal Cyprus

Seedcamp

Ops Coordinator

The Yacht Week

•	Responsible for guiding crew and staff (30 employees) in achieving the goals and ambitions of the tours and events.
•	Oversaw all the operations and practices of the event as a whole and ensure that all processes are working in proper manner.
•	Slushed the event’s variable costs by 38% (to £12500), by introducing new partnerships and improving backward integration of operations.
•	Increased revenues by 25% (to £48000) as new revenues channels were introduced through merchandise and sharing-revenue agreements with various venues.

Event Manager

Wunderman

•	Part of Activation Team, in Global Marketing Department of Nokia.
•	Dealt with acquiring new clients and day-to-day clientele issues and responsible for market analysis regarding competitors and potential investment opportunities.
•	Analyzed Marketing analytics for Nokia Lumia and assisted in implementation of SEO and CTR improvements. Traffic in Local Nokia sites increased by 180% and CTR on digital banners increased by 65

Junior Account Executive

CEO of Threedium - Envisioning and shaping the future of 3D Internet. Used to be known as a passionate entrepreneur with international experience in the launch and development growth of new innovative businesses. He has worked with startups and multinational companies globally in sectors ranging from fashion, retail, to food & beverage, tourism and telecommunications. Firm believer that caffeine is part of our bloodstream.

Mike Charalambous Angelides

New Technology Walkers

New Technology Walkers is an agency with a long experience in the development of AR and VR projects, with the ability to both create their own experiences and develop applications for third parties.

The consultancies offered by the agency span all the possible sectors where XR can be employed:
- AR/VR games
- AR maintenance and remote-assistance solutions
- VR training and education experiences
- XR collaborative environment for prototyping
- Virtual Reality events
- Virtual Reality world building for metaverse platforms like Roblox, VRChat, The Sandbox
- Etc...
Thanks to its very long practical experience in the field, NTW can offer a high-quality delivery on every kind of immersive project, starting from its ideation, and going through the development until the final deployment.

Regarding internal production, the most famous product of the agency has been for sure HitMotion: Reloaded. HitMotion has been the first mixed reality fitness game released on one of the major VR stores. It is a professional boxing training disguised as a game, with the astonishing launch feature of the ability to use passthrough mixed reality to let the user see his surroundings so that he can play the game safely. The game was released in 2019, two years before Meta let developers use passthrough on Quest, thanks to a proprietary plugin that NTW developed to let Vive Focus developers create passthrough applications (and that the agency put open source for the whole community to enjoy). HitMotion was developed in partnership with HTC Vive and was one of the 20 launch titles of the Vive Focus Plus, the only one in mixed reality.
HitMotion was mentioned in many popular magazines like Upload VR, Forbes, and The Information.

Multimedia Developer & PR

The Ghost Howls

Full management of a successful blog focused on virtual reality and augmented reality, with a little startup taste. In this blog it is possible to find:
- News about virtual and augmented reality world;
- Opinions about the AR/VR ecosystem;
- Reviews on AR/VR hardware, applications, and services;
- Advice for people wanting to run a startup.

Other services offered regards:
- Participation in AR/VR events as a speaker or mentor (e.g. AWE, View Conference, WCVRI);
- Collaboration with other journalists in the writing of books or online articles.

The blog has won various awards and accolades, like being selected as one of the top 50 virtual reality websites

Blogger

VRROOM

Management of the technical side of VRROOM, a startup devoted to creating virtual reality and hybrid concerts. The company managed to win various awards and start important collaborations with artists like Jean-Michel Jarre or Armani White and with festivals like Venice Biennale, SXSW, and Kaohsiung Film Festival

The role required to perform:
- Development of virtual worlds inside popular metaverse platforms like VRChat or Roblox
- Design, architecture, and development of a Unity-based platform to provide virtual reality concerts (a challenging task, considering the big size of the project)
- Creating the product development team from scratch
- Management of a growing team of developers
- Coordination with other company departments
- Technological planning for the product and the company
- Support in the strategic planning of the company

Chief Technology Officer

Wise Realities

Technical support of the Wise Realities association, that offers psychological treatments using virtual reality:
- Help in understanding the current trends of virtual and augmented reality, and advice on the best XR headset for every application;
- Facilitation of the connections of Wise Realities with other entities and people in the XR ecosystem with which it could have a proficient collaboration

Technical Advisor

BEPS Engineering S.r.l.

Technical support for an IoT company:
- Advisory in business and technical decisions;
- Support in the development of solutions that employed Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality or Computer Vision

Assistance in outreach operations:
- Social media management
- Blog articles ghostwriting
- Website development

XR Ignite Community Hub & Hyper-Accelerator

Remote support and mentorship to AR/VR startups, providing helpful connections and pieces of advice about the available technologies and the current status of the immersive market.

AR/VR Mentor

Self-Employed

Development of virtual & augmented reality applications using the Unity game engine using every kind of VR hardware like Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Google Cardboard; AR hardware like HoloLens; sensors like Leap Motion and Kinect.

Virtual & augmented reality consultant

Immotionar

Co-foundation of a startup focused on adding the full body of the user in VR, mixing virtual reality headsets with external sensors like Kinect. Active participation in:
- Development of virtual reality solutions (mainly with Unity3D);
- Development of computer vision solutions to reconstruct the pose of the human body;
- Business development;
- Social media management (especially Twitter and Reddit);
- Public relations management, both in B2B events than via standard communication channels;
- Blogging (company blog and Medium).

The innovation proposed by Immotionar has been rewarded by awards and articles on various online blogs.

PR & Developer

Development of computer vision solutions for external companies. Two examples are:
- The retrieval and decoding of EAN-13 barcodes on RGB color images; 
- The evaluation of the quality of beverage starting from a single RGB image.

Thesis on computer vision, with the development of an early-stage prototype for a bimanual hand tracker and one for an augmented reality engine.

Computer Vision Expert

I work with virtual and augmented reality technologies since 2014, and in these years I have covered different roles in immersive realities, following important projects and getting prestigious awards.

As a developer turned into an entrepreneur, I've been at first the co-founder of Immotionar, a startup focused on an innovative full-body virtual reality system; then the co-founder of New Technology Walkers, a group of professionals that offer consultancies all around breakthrough technologies; and in the end the CTO of VRROOM, an innovative startup focused in developing immersive shows (e.g. concerts) for the metaverse. The three most important projects that I've developed with these companies have been:
- ImmotionRoom, a wireless full-body virtual reality solution using Kinects and VR headsets, that was already available at the end of 2014, when people could not even see their hands in VR;
- HitMotion: Reloaded, a mixed reality fitness game developed with the support of HTC, and one of the 20 launch titles of the HTC Vive Focus Plus
- VRROOM: an ambitious platform for creating and enjoying immersive shows, whose project and team were created entirely from scratch. It got to the #1 spot as the top free app on the Pico Store during its alpha launch. During my collaboration with VRROOM, I have also taken part to other important projects, like the concert Welcome To The Other Side featuring Jean-Michel Jarre, which totaled 75 MILLION views in its first 24 hours, or the virtual world of the SXSW festival

Together with this, I have helped with the design and development of many other AR/VR projects under NDA in various sectors from entertainment to industrial training for B2B customers. I have also offered consultancies to other companies to help them define their XR/metaverse strategy.

Since 2016 I have had a blog called "The Ghost Howls" where I talk about AR and VR. It has been chosen various times as one of the best 50 VR websites and I've been awarded by both HTC and Onalytica for being one of the top 50 virtual reality influencers. I've spoken at important events like WCVRI, View Conference, SXSW, and AWE and I've been featured on Forbes, Huffington Post, Road To VR, and Authority Magazine. 

Augmented and virtual realities are truly my passion and it is what I'm dedicating my life to, but I'm open to experimenting with every technology. I also believe a lot in the power of the community: if I can help someone else, I am always pleased to do that. So don't hesitate to connect with me to ask for a collaboration!

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