Angel Muñoz [Photo: Beacon MAX]
You might think serial entrepreneur Angel Muñoz is a total idiot who thinks his company’s new video communications platform has a chance to beat big rivals such as Zoom, Teams, Skype, Webex and BlueJeans. not. But the founder, president and CEO of Dallas-based Mass Luminosity argues it’s more of a matter of necessity than anything else.
“Yesterday’s power is not tomorrow’s power,” he says. “The winds of change are in my favor and against me.”
Nowhere is Munoz so confident about Beacon MAX, the company’s all-new next-generation video communications platform, which rolls out this Thursday, May 18th.His Beacon MAX, the platform’s first subscription product, is a free Entry-level Beacon Xwill launch in 2021 and currently has 700,000 users.
Beacon X’s selling points were simplicity, privacy, and audio/visual clarity, and Beacon MAX enhances those benefits with a number of innovations, including the use of artificial intelligence. Munoz said the company has partnered with his OpenAI in Silicon Valley on the product from the beginning, and has access to his ChatGPT-3, ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4.
An ‘anonymized’ preview of the upcoming Beacon MAX dashboard shows off its design and functionality, offering a glimpse into its layout and various features, including a strip menu at the bottom with intuitive icons. . [Image: Beacon MAX]
Accessible from your web browser, Beacon MAX includes cutting-edge advances such as:
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Widescreen Ultra HD 4K video resolution at 30 frames per second.
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interpreter. A new AI-enhanced multi-party protocol that provides real-time translation for English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, and Russian.
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An AI virtual assistant similar to Alexa is called SAMI, short for Socially Advanced Machine Intelligence. Not only does SAMI quickly provide relevant information, but it can also respond to commands like “SAMI, take a picture” and arrange to add someone to your video call in real time upon request.
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Instant Transfer is a technology that seamlessly transfers scheduled calls between desktop browsers and laptops and mobile phones.
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Beacon Voice is the pioneering in-network calling system that runs inside the Beacon MAX dashboard, allowing you to make regular calls to anyone, regardless of whether they are Beacon users.
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New Quantum technology lets you share files of any size with anyone, anytime.
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A collaborative AI integration mode called Transformer. For example, you can summarize calls and videos, and transform video content into interactive experiences.
“Three or four years ago, we demonstrated to shareholders and partners what Beacon Max could be,” Muñoz said. “Our president said, ‘It’s like magic. It looks completely unreal. And I said, ‘Wait three years and you’ll see.’ “
Mass Luminosity was founded in 2011 with the purpose of “integrating people into augmented virtual environments” and in 2020 established a subsidiary, Beacon Technologies, focused on audiovisual communication solutions. Munoz, who is often referred to as the father of the global esports industry since the early days of his career, said the company has raised $4.5 million to date and could eventually go public. .
Boxing great Manny Pacquiao is a Beacon brand ambassador. [Image: Beacon MAX]
Earlier this year, it announced a partnership with Manny Pacquiao, ranked as the greatest left-handed boxer of all time, and his Manny Pacquiao Foundation. The great boxer serves as a brand ambassador for Beacon, and in return Beacon donates a portion of all proceeds to the foundation. Munoz said they were the ones who caught Pacquiao’s attention after Pacquiao’s foundation staff “stopped zooming” because Beacon was much better.
“Last year we received an $80 million offer in advance revenue for Beacon,” Muñoz said. “Probably everyone thought so, but knowing what we knew and how things were going to go, it didn’t seem like the right thing to do. We gave it a few more zeros.” I would like to add.”
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