Bringing Your Food Options into the Third Dimension—Alper Guler—Kabaq
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We've all been there: wrestling with that conundrum of what to order off the menu, and feeling unable to decide which sounds the best while trying to visualize the options. Wouldn't it be great if we could just see the options right there on the table before us, prior to ordering? Now we can, and Kabaq is making it happen.
Established just two years ago by Alper Guler, Kabaq is a company that's putting to use what so many major tech companies are investing in to enrich our lives: augmented and virtual reality technology. Realistic, actual-size depictions of various food items can now be visualized in 3D with the use of a tablet or your personal phone by scanning item-specific codes through social media platforms such as Snapchat and Facebook.
"We believe the next generation content is 3D...and we are creating the next generation content for food," says Guler. But this content includes more than just an image of the food, he explains; Kabaq is taking it a step further by augmenting the space surrounding the 3D preview with stories and information about the food and the way in which it was sourced.
Kabaq is already working with 150 restaurants and is growing in popularity as positive feedback continues to flow in. Interested in checking it out for yourself? Hit play and visit kabaq.io to learn more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.0 | Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | My guest is Alper Guler, the founder of Quebec, K-A-B-A-Q. |
| 0:36.8 | The website is K-A-Q. |
| 0:38.8 | We have been talking about augmented reality as it applies to food. |
| 0:43.4 | Sounds delicious and interesting. |
| 0:44.9 | So get back, I mean, sorry, Alper, thanks for coming. |
| 0:49.6 | Thank you, Rich, for hosting me in this session. I'm excited to talk about AR and how you can bring some |
| 0:56.4 | delicious to the food. Yeah so what that you're going on this? How did you think of making this augmented reality food? |
| 1:06.2 | So how it all started is, so me and my partner in Jenner, we started a company doing AR and VR for architecture, real estate, and home |
| 1:18.4 | appliances. |
| 1:20.2 | And we've been creating and virtual reality applications. |
| 1:25.1 | And one day we were at a Turkish restaurant in New York |
| 1:28.1 | trying to tell our friends about the food. |
| 1:30.8 | And it's really hard to visualize it before you order the food. You know, you're from Turkey, |
| 1:36.1 | so we know the food, but it was really hard for them to visualize the food and decide on what to eat before they order. |
| 1:44.0 | So luckily we were there to help them for that occasion, |
| 1:48.0 | but the idea sparked at that moment |
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