Since the foundation of COEZBAY GMBH we are in direct contact with the IHK. In the last years we have visited many of the events personally and also participated online. We can recommend the direct contact with the IHK to everyone who has questions concerning self-employment or foundation.

IHK employees are also available personally at any time during regular working hours. For this reason, it is also possible to simply call the respective department for advice in case of spontaneous incidents or inquiries.

This is why the website of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce is always a good place to go before you go into action. We ourselves have not taken up the offer of start-up assistance. However, you don’t have to miss out on it if it can make it easier to get started.

Even though it can be useful to teach yourself everything yourself, you can save unnecessary costs. Especially when you realize that you have to pay the IHK fees anyway, as soon as you found an official company in Germany.

We thank the IHK Munich and Upper Bavaria for the contribution and are happy to provide you with the links and content of the IHK Magazine Munich Upper Bavaria here on our blog. Above all special thanks to the Author Josef Stelzer.

The text passage of the IHK Magazine Munich contribution in English:

Whole areas for hours without electricity. The reason? The cable was cut by an excavator. This happens very often with gas pipelines and other supply networks as well.

Mixed reality headsets with integrated motion sensors and headphones can see at a glance, where excavations permitted and where not. This is an huge advantage for engineers or construction workers. “By using geographical data of the underground pipelines, mixed reality helps to avoid damage and construction delays.” Explains Cagatay Oezbay, founder and managing director of COEZBAY GmbH in Grunwald.

We can use Mixed reality systems to automatically recognize machines or people on the construction site. One receives suggestions on how to deal with the situation on the basis of this information. The 35-year-old entrepreneur says: “In bridge and road construction, mixed reality offers enormous potential”. And not only there. “In the future, numerous new fields of application will open up for Mixed Reality”, Oezbay expects.

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Arrival at thyssenkrupp

On February 12, we took the train from Munich to Essen to attend the Beyond Conventions at Thyssenkrupp.

Arriving early, we got right to work testing the demos and creating a screen capture of the application right on the spot to present a representative demonstration of our potential solution.

You don’t realize the size of the Thyssenkrupp site until you’re there. The story behind is also fascinating. If you want to know more about it, you can read on the company website or on Wikipedia how the group and the families behind it have managed to make the company grow so much.

Beyond Conventions Event

Our presentations at various corporates went very well. The demos with the VR glasses and the Microsoft Hololens were also very well received. Nevertheless, we didn’t expect to make it to the finalists among so many applicants, especially since many of the startups were there with entire teams. So we packed up and slowly prepared for the announcement of the winners and for the departure.

We got the pitch!

Shortly before we were about to go to the participants to say goodbye, the name COEZBAY sounded through the speakers and it looked like our presentation had found the approval of more people than initially thought.

We won the pitch at Open Grid Europe GmbH for the Augmented Reality Supports Pipeline Construction challenge and shortly after we were called again to accept the award as one of the top 3 startups, which was a great honor considering the high number of participants.

First stress tests

Back in Munich, we immediately started to work on the demo we had been working on and equipped it with larger CAD data in order to expand the stress test and to make good use of the time until the negotiations. An excerpt from the demo can be found directly below.

We are growing!

In the meantime, a friend of ours just joined our team, Frederik Steinmetz, with whom we had already worked in the past. Having not worked in augmented and virtual reality before, he got an entertaining introduction to it in the home office.

Immediately afterwards, we also started a small hackathon among friends.

Off to Gescher

And soon we were off to Gescher, to our new customer, Open Grid Europe GmbH, where we tested our solution on site, geodata-supported and under almost real circumstances.

Actually, we had reserved a small car for the journey. But due to the lack of vehicles, we got an upgrade to a slightly larger vehicle. At this point a big thank you to Sixt.

Hotel und letzte Tests

Before that, of course, we did some tests in the hotel, for which the hotel room and hotel foyer at the late hour was downright offered. This must have looked funny for the employees as well as for the visitors of the hotel.

Gescher Sightseeing

After completing the tasks, we used the time for some sightseeing and visited the bell museum, for which Gescher is famous among other things.

Finale Präsentation

Die Phase 1 unseres MVP’s (Minimum Viable Product) war abgeschlossen und die finale Präsentation verlief zufriedenstellend.

Through the cooperation with Open Grid Europe GmbH, we have learned a lot. Starting with the planning, to the implementation, to the presentation to larger corporations. At the corporate level, many things are handled differently than with startups and medium-sized businesses.

We hope to continue our cooperation in the future and would like to express our sincere thanks to the competent team at Open Grid Europe GmbH.

For data protection reasons, we have refrained from mentioning various names outside COEZBAY GMBH in this article.

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Our task was to make the underground rooms virtually accessible for various applications. Radioactivity and the life-threatening environment, made us use laser scan data to create the virtual scenes. We optimized the data and prepared it for real-time use. Then we started the programming work, which was simultaneously accompanied by the visual experience.

Real-time exposure posed a particular challenge because it is usually very dark underground. For this reason, we used a lot of artificial real-time lighting, which we have individually adapted to each room. We also adjusted many textures to reflect the realism of the scenery.

We realized this project in cooperation with the Team of BGE and Greenpost GmbH. While we took care of the content, it was the task of Greenpost GmbH to program the hardware solution and the interfaces.

Some impressions of the VR Project for BGE Federal company for radioactive waste disposal.

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