(Finansavisen): Tom Vidar Rygh, Gert Munthe and Johan H. Andresen investing heavily in Future Group, which has developed new technology for TV shows that let viewers participate through virtual technology, Finance writes newspaper.
Bård Anders Kasin was technical director at Warner Brothers in California and was behind the visual effects in the Matrix films. Along with serial entrepreneur Jens Petter Høili he turns now with the technology company The Future Group. A leash of Norway’s most wealthy men pouring now money into what will become a Norwegian technology adventure.
Tom Vidar Rygh was among the early investors. It was also Gert Munthe, MP Pension and Morten Angelil. Then hit Johan H. Andresen in 50 million, and now he is engrossed in the entertainment concept and pour an additional 50 million in the founders collects 160 million and prices adventure to 545 million before money.
The founders are close cooperation with giant Freemantle and sources Finance newspaper has been in contact with state that Kjell Inge Rokke’s Aker is at full speed.
– Frenzied opportunities
– We bring virtual reality to TV. We are the first in the world using 3D game technology into the interactive TV. It opens outrageous possibilities, says Bård Anders Kasin.
35-year-old has no education, but started his own internet company mid-1990s before he constructed an Apache helicopter in 3D with technology from Silicon Graphics and was discovered by the film industry.
Together with co-founder, Jens Petter Høili, who was behind the Easy Park and participated in Europris, he has built a social entertainment platform based on both virtual and augmented reality.
It combines television with the interactivity, games and e-commerce together with advanced cinematographic effects where attendees can participate in real time in a TV show where smartphone management tool if you want to participate yourself.
Launched in Cannes
– Next year launched the first TV show in the platform – the first in Norway but quickly then worldwide, says Kasin to show everything at MIPTV Congress in Cannes in April next year.
Before the time the plan is to lie low for the company that collaborates with game engine company Epic games, the world’s largest producer of television studios, Ross Video, global entertainment companies and TV networks with distribution of 3 billion people.
Kasin and Høili have worked with the concept for three and a half years. On the road they have signed important agreements and partnerships with some of the world’s largest television production companies in addition to Epic Games and Ross Video after Ferd joined as a major investor last fall.
But they are far from alone . From offices at Tjuvholmen has Høili and Kasin partly recruited former Real Top Espen Brodin as commercial director. In the Board, former Statoil CEO Harald Norvik, Eltek’s CEO Lars Jervan, former Verdane Capital Top Lars Thoresen and former Arctic and Wikborg Rein Top Einar Greve.
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