As of last summer, the company said that it had processed 5 million user profiles, 40 million venues, and 1 million curated venue content items from around the world.
A museum is a great model for extending location based venue content and self positioning, and Wifarer already has plans expand to several airports and hospitals, but I am immediately thinking of the retail potential.
Initially available as a web and mobile application, Spotsetter used a patent-pending algorithm to pull in users' content from social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Foursquare, as well as venue content from over 30 review sites and lists from trusted sources like Yelp, Zagat, the New York Times, Michelin, and TripAdviser.
Now it's a much more rigorously scheduled media event where creators are moving from venue to venue doing content pieces for various magazines, online sites, networks, so as it's matured it's lost a little bit of its independent feeling.
"If we can plan with media venues and content creators, we can support with our dollars unique content that consumes will find value in," Mr. Van Hoof said.
We had the venues, but no content and six weeks to get it live.
All the venues gave us the content that was available, but we also set to work building video, written, audio and photographic content of our own.
Bangkok has many hot-spots in the Sukhumvit road and Silom areas where you can eat, drink and dance to your heart's content in venues aimed at the LGBT community.
It is the equivalent of arcades and movie theaters as venues for consuming VR content that's needed.
Plus during game breaks the camera will show in-venue exclusive 360-degree content that you wouldn't be able to see on a standard TV.
