カルクル- 音・映像・場の体験を自由にミックス！新しい空間メディアを誰もが楽しめる世界へ

• Kalkul builds AURA: iOS spatial audio + hologram AR app, like Pokémon GO.
  • Walk a city, see overlaid holograms + 3D audio at specific locations.
  • Web creator tool lets anyone publish spatial media content.
• Artists deploy hologram performances simultaneously nationwide — one body, many locations.
  • Deployed at MUTEK.JP Shibuya music/digital art festival as bonus artist content.
  • Nippon Ham Fighters partnership: player holograms inside the stadium for fans.
• Media attention spans collapsing (8 seconds on YouTube/TikTok); AURA bets on place-locked immersion.
• Tourism vertical next: hotel QR → AR city tour, location-triggered audio info (“Mt. Fuji ahead”).
  • Content hosts shift from artists to chefs, architects, local experts.
• Founder origin: wanted safe cycling audio (hear traffic + music) → founded 2016.
  • Started with AR earphone + app combo; later consolidated to app-only.
  • AURA = “invisible world of sound” — Spotify integration for spatial mixing.
• Bartek Kolacz: Hamburg University of Technology robotics (2009) → Tokyo patent law → KALKUL founder.
  • Background in hardware patents informed AR product design.

Bartek Kolacz (バーテック・コーラチ), co-founder & CEO of Kalkul — Hamburg robotics engineer, ex-patent attorney (Sonderhoff & Einsel Tokyo). Interviewed by MIRAISE Partner & CTO Ryusuke Fuda and Head of Comm Emi Minoguchi. · 2024-04-30 · Read on miraise.vc