GoArt makes time travel possible

It is told with
animations showing the periods of historical places, you see every detail from
the real-time climate you live in to the hour in the application. The GoArt
project, which you will find yourself passing through a living history door at
once, is a unique application born in Turkey. Burak Soylu, CEO of Roof Stacks,
who has developed a new groundbreaking technology under the guidance of
tourism, describes the Ticket Shop platform that makes an ambitious exit in
GoArt and online ticketing...
Can you tell us a
little about yourself?
I was born in
Elazığ in 1988. I graduated from İstanbul Kültür University Faculty of Law.
Although I have received the attorney and notarial documents, I put aside my
profession for now and continue my studies in the business world where I have been in
since I was a student.
I currently chair
the board of six companies under the umbrella of HAR Group, which brings
together our technology-oriented initiatives.
Roof Stacks, one of
our group companies, is a purebred technology company. Roof Stacks is one of
the first domestic IT companies to emerge from the Turkish IT Valley. Earlier
this year, we also established an R&D laboratory in Austin, America. We
share the same ecosystem with companies such as technology giants, Google,
Apple and Dell. In addition, our offices will soon be active in Canada and the
Netherlands in May.
We produce
technology with RoofStacks. Ticket Shop is just one of our technological
products. Our most ambitious project is GoArt, which enables traveling back in
time with augmented reality technology.
Will you please
tell us more about it? What is GoArt?
Contrary to Stephen
Hawking's words, "Journey to the past is not possible, but a journey to
the future is possible," we created a virtual galaxy that shows that this
is possible. GoArt is the first world in this galaxy. The planet GoArt we produce
is a world where the past events are collected as data. Imagine a world where
Evliya Çelebi and other travelers show you around. Here, GoArt offers a
technology where these phenomena come together and dreams meet history and the
future.
How much data are
we talking about? How much of a country?
There will be
places all over the world where historic and tourist sights say, "I wonder
what happened here?" With a position-based technology, we implement an
application that makes time travel possible. The planet of GoArt offers you a
world that lives by artificial intelligence algorithms. It works like this: For
example, you went somewhere at 6 in the morning. You will see it in the
morning. If it is raining in real time, it will also rain in the world of
GoArt.
In our first
prototype, we represent the 365-day cycle in 120 minutes. The cycle that occurs
over a year occurs within 120 minutes. People and events depicted in fiction
begin to work uniquely thanks to AI algorithms. You see the people who form
within this 120-minute cycle once. Thanks to the artificial intelligence
algorithms that control every character and environment, we were able to
produce a product such as tourism's streaming service.
How soon?
We estimated a
total of about four years. Naturally, we have experienced many difficulties
because it is a product that has not been studied in R&D in the world
before. But
our team is working
nonstop and we are seriously dealing with even the slightest mismatch. This way
it will be operational in May.
Will such artificial
intelligence set an example for other technology companies?
Yes. The tech
giants are communicating with us, they want to move forward with us. But we do
not want to hand over our future ahead of time. We are making serious
investments in GoArt and we will bring our application to light in a short
time.
Apart from this
project, do you have different artificial intelligence location based mapping
projects?
Roof Stacks
incorporates payment systems, artificial intelligence and gaming teams. Within
the scope of our business philosophy, we aim these initiatives that we have
created using Artificial Intelligence to carry out their development on their
own. This approach is definitely included in every technology we develop.
GoArt uses a
technology that creates all its characters with AI. Apart from this, we have
Ticket Shop, payment systems and games that we have developed. In 2020, we
included 6 game launches in our program. Roof Stacks evolves more like an
organism than an organization. We are taking firm steps towards achieving our
dreams.
How many R&D
teams are there?
We have a team of
30, seven of them senior experts.