Commenting on the 24 hour long event, Mr. Rahul Agarwal, Co-Founder and CEO of Mebelkart said, “As a company we are always looking at working with creative people who are keen to push the boundaries through technology innovations. We always had a very tech oriented entrepreneurial culture at Mebelkart. With this, we want to invite tech enthusiasts from all over the world to come and work on projects which will affect billions of Indians and several million homes. We have already got a very good response from companies, colleges and research institutes.”
Mebelkart has a vision to design every home in India and make it affordable for the masses. The Techathon will encourage tech enthusiasts come from all over India to make products which makes the process of designing homes better.
Mebelkart will offer developers the platform to use several visualization techniques like Augmented Reality to give users a look and feel of furniture, furnishings on their mobile devices. The candidates will be given “Google Carboards” and Virtual Reality tools to make modular kitchens, living rooms come “live” in 3D. This will enable users to visualize millions of designs, fit those designs to their homes and see in live how will the designs look at their home. Mebelkart will also provide “Beacons” which is Blue Tooth Low Energy Devices to its candidates to make an automated showroom experience for the furniture industry.
‘Let’s make homes beautiful’ will start on Saturday, December 12 at 11am and finish on Sunday, December 13 at 11am.