Konstantinos Sideris and Masaki Nakada from University of California, Los Angeles in March 2012 start project vuPad. According to Masaki: "We utilize cutting edge vision and graphics technology to help you realistically preview furnishings in any location. Our vision is to make this process as easy and delightful as possible. Point your tablet or smartphone towards your room, choose furniture and voila!"

2. VuPad allows users to visualize
furniture styles and placement
interactively on a smartphone
or tablet

4. Motivation
• Problem: Furniture shopping and
arrangement is cumbersome and tedious
• Solution: Smartphone and tablet
technology has just recently become
powerful enough for usable augmented
reality applications
• Incentive: $20 billion furniture industry in
the US alone

5. Product Features
• Augmented reality technology using
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
(SLAM)
• Marketplace containing brand-named
furniture
• Social network integration for sharing and
collaborating

6. Revenue
• $20 billion furniture industry in the US
• Estimated $600 million in furniture
advertisement
• If we can grab just 0.1% we can expect
$600 thousand in revenue

7. Profit and Loss
• Revenue: $600 thousand
• Expenses: Servers: $5,000
Office Space: $20,000
• Loss: $0
• Income before taxes: $575,000

8. Timeline
• Summer 2012: First prototype, Facebook
integration, generic furniture models
• First Quarter 2013: Marketplace
integration, retail furniture models,
proprietary social network
• Summer 2013: Global expansion including
Europe and Asia

9. Demo

10. Questions / Comments?

11. Thanks!