ExRey is a platform for video recognition and content delivery brought by a young and aspiring startup and I helped with building the native iOS app. The platform is built around the central database and mobile apps acting as clients for capturing the content.
Mobile apps aim to be dead simple and straightforward for the user. Desire to provide the best user experience possible made us to focus on simplicity, snappiness and performance.
Basic workflow goes like the following: user scans a video and gets the associated content. The content can depend upon the context and it usually consists of links to details, webshops, tour schedule for musicians, IMDB page for movies, trailers and more. Basically, similar as Shazam works with music.
One of the bigger challenges here was to optimize captured video to be as small as possible for a quick network delivery but with enough quality for effective and precise recognition. The goal was to have video recognized and content delivered in just a few seconds.
Although still in relatively early stages, everything blends in together and works pretty fast already. It will be exciting to watch the progress of a platform to see what new heights it can reach and see new experiences it can bring. I can’t wait to see more features added to the platform as the story unfolds!
For more info, head to the official page.