Mr. Arijit Bhattacharyya | Founder & CEO | VirtualInfocom
The below excerpt is an exclusive interview with Mr. Arijit Bhattacharyya – Founder & CEO of VirtualInfocom.
Kindly brief us about VirtualInfocom.
Established in 1998, Virtualinfocom is known for many innovations in IT solution , game development & animation. It all started with a dream. A dream to “Bring Art and Technology Together Successfully”, in a way that would allow the world to reap the benefits of creativity armed with Information technology.
That dream shaped Virtualinfocom. We have developed multiple reallife actors based games and virtual reality apps, certainly that includes various Indian movie based games, bangladesh movie based games and so on. We are creator of India’s first RPG mythology based game. West Bengal’s first movie based game Boss2, Bangladesh’s first super hero movie based game Bizli, Creator of India’s first super hero based game Shaktimaan. Bhutan’s first 3D racing game, Nepal’s first 3D Racing simulation game. Oldest Virtual Reality game development company in India.Apart from the fact that we are making agmes, we have started India’s first portal on cosplay and we are producer of Bengal’s first cosplay show since 2016.
We at Virtual Information and Communications (virtualinfocom) believe in the perfect mix of imaginative and innovative efficiency, coupled with ground breaking technology provide our customers with the state of the art products and services. The ability to think outside the proverbial box is one of our greatest fortes and it is not as easy as it is cut out to be. Research and development are the keys to our success that we have achieved over the last few years and our R&D team work tirelessly to make the requirements of next generation animation and gaming possible.
What We Do
Game Development
Virtual Reality
AR and Mixed Reality
Animation
Blockchain Solution
Artificial Intelligence
Short Films
Animated Movies
Graphic Design
Comics
Machine Learning Codes
virtualinfocom creates and publishes games across all major development platforms:
-iOS
-Intel
-Nokia
– Android
-Samsung
– Web (Social Networks & websites)
– Blackberry
– Opera
– Amazon
– LG
– Facebook
Animation
Comics Design
Corporate Presentation
Training & Education
We use cutting edge technology for development of our games, animation & comics. This enables us to support our large user base and provide excellent service levels.
Another aspect of our business that we are proud of is the work environment that we have managed to establish and provide to our employees. We at Virtual Information and Communications believe that the highest quality work is created in an environment where people enjoy working and where people are treated fairly, honestly and with respect. We work as one unit towards a common goal, a common idea, and this is what sets us apart from the rest of the companies.
Brief us about the Founder/CEO, and what was the source of inspiration for you to be in the Gaming Solution Providers segment.
Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Public Speaker, Artist, Author, Community Builder, Game Programmer, Virtual Reality Specialist, AI Evangelist, Blockchain Specialist & Rotarian.
Founder & CEO – Virtualinfocom- India’s first game development & VR app development company since 1998
Creator of 43 + Superhero’s & 21 Comics characters.
TEDx Speaker
Founder: Cosplayseller – India’s first ecommerce portal for cosplay items.
Co-Founder: Glamworldface- media & entertainment platform for creative people.
Founder: imsuperhero – platform for kids to make their own superheros and share to the world
Founder: Animgaming- platform for indie developers to showcase and get funding from global publishers and investors.
Founder: Yogatraining4u- platform to teach good life, yoga, nutrition, MMA, BJJ & rehab
Founder: Animationreviews- portal to share news about movies, VFX, animation
Co-Founder: Entrepreneursface – helps entrepreneurs to start up their business by helping them from the ideation stage to execution
Mentor & Angel Investor: IIM Calcutta Innovation Park , Naman Capital, Ah Ventures, Megaline(UK), Broffice (Ukraine) , Fastercapital (Dubai), Maxcap(China)
Mentor: Govt of West Bengal, India in MSME Dept, Startupindia Govt of India initiative.
Business Mentor: Faster Capital (Dubai)
Adviser: B Incubators, TCDIC, CIIE, PSPU & Few co-working space and incubation centers in Asia. Indian Chamber of Commerce for the StartupPad in India.
Adviser: Innovation center in Japan; Adviser: Indian Chamber of Commerce Startup Pad, MSME cluster in India along with scalable business opportunities.
Movie producer: Produced 7 Short movie and 12 pocket films till date along with 2 Spanish movie VFX co-producer.
Investment Banker.
B2B point of contact for Nordic – India- China – Russia.
IT & ITES PROJECTS
Game: Produced more than 200 plus game with more than 275+ celebrities and models(India, Russia, UK, Ukraine, Africa, Italy, France, Finland, Nepal, USA) as 3D simulated game character with over 250 millions user base.
Ultrabook based apps n games: Developed Asia’s first ultrabook (Intel) based game as software development partner.Ultrabook based apps n games: Developed Asia’s first ultrabook (Intel) based game as software development partner.
VR: Since 2004 maing VR based apps n games on helmet system to headset- cave- boomtube.
AR: Industrial AR solutions mainly into healtech, edutech and real-estate.
AI & ML: Implemented AI into marketing applications, financial analysis app, automation, gaming apps, social network applications.
Marketing & Business Development: For approx 12 plus mid-level product companies Arijit developed new market for their products and brought new B2B customers.
Blockchain: Core team member of making crypto wallet based in Russia, mentor of Thailand’s first crypto café, adviser & BD for blockchain based smart home solution based in USA, various fintech based solution using blockchain etc. Blockchain based real-estate solution.
Animation: Various industrial animation and simulation solution including oil rigging, real estate, medical, technology, FMCG etc.
IOT: CMO of smartdome USA based smarthome solution company, responsible to expand their business in EU, Middle east and Asia.
Superhero: Produced over 87 plus popular superhero’s along with took license of India’s popular superhero Shaktimaan and made two games out of it.
NON IT PROJECTS
Coworking place: International business development of one of the largest Ukraine based coworking place.
Product for blinds: New market development and business development.
ECRS: CMO for geriatric solution company based in UK. (Took exit in 2016).
Gentry: Business development for tailor made Shoe Company based in Ukraine.
Redcarpet: Managing partner & responsible for business expansion.
Yogatraining: Business development for health n nutrition based startup based in Thailand.
Bridge: Business development for B2B platform based in middle east, expanded in USA.
Gointernational: Helped to develop new market and new customers for B2B platform based in Nordic country. (exit in 2018)
ELINE: International business development for Ring based gesture control system.
CONTRIBUTION TO EDUCATION INDUSTRY:
Creator of syllabus (makaut) of BSc in Game Development & Virtual Reality
Member of Board of studies of the department of computer science in two University in India
Trained over 6000 students from 2001 to 2008 in my own institute in several computer languages, multimedia & animation along with game programming
Over 100 plus workshops on game development, android app development, iOS app development, blockchain, machine language
Mentor at Atal Innovation Mission – Govt of India
Corporate advisory board member in three University in India & UK
Serving as visiting faculty to few colleges in Asia
Ref: http://www.arijitbhattacharyya.com/bio.html
Since he was a kid, in class 6 onwards, Arijit used to write & draw comics and had passion to do something in creative Industry. When we passed class 12 standards, he felt only entrepreneurship can make a disruption and hence he left engineering despite of the fact he is a science student and joined Economics and while in first year in his college days he started his dream company.
What are the different products and services provided by your company, setting you apart from your competitors?
We have developed multiple reallife actors based games and virtual reality apps, certainly that includes various Indian movie based games, bangladesh movie based games and so on. We are creator of India’s first RPG mythology based game. West Bengal’s first movie based game Boss2, Bangladesh’s first super hero movie based game Bizli, Creator of India’s first super hero based game Shaktimaan. Bhutan’s first 3D racing game, Nepal’s first 3D Racing simulation game. Oldest Virtual Reality game development company in India.
What are the key attributes that helped your company overcome the challenges that it faced during its establishment?
The market was not ready in India and there was a gap of game coders and artists, hence we started giving training to fresh graduates to become game artist and game coders to fill the gap and started making own game title and took help of global publishers in Asia to publish our games.
Share with us your Virtual Infocoms’ contribution to its sector.
We work closely with a lot of publishers and presently we do publish games and do connect with ecosystem developers who are active in gaming Industry. Infact we have started animgaming as a platform for indie developers to submit their games if they need publishing and branding support. Not only that we have started a portal for kids imsuperhero.com who love to make superheros and we are open to take any new superhero and give encouragement to the kids life.
How do you motivate creativity and innovation in the workspace while maintaining a healthy work environment?
Simply work as a team and open for creative idea’s. At the moment we are having co-workers in various parts of EU.
Brief us about the current scenario of Gaming Industry and your company’s future plans.
I am an Angel Investor and did few investment in gaming Industry, I’ve a plan to start a dedicated fund for gaming and VR and new tech Industry.
