Xura, Inc. (NASDAQ:MESG), a major innovator in Real-Time
Communication (RTC) technology, today announced it received the
Best Social Integration Award from TMC, Systemwide Media and PKE
Consulting for its forge by Xura platform, which provides real-time
communication capabilities within new social fitness app, Weqool.
Built by Weqool and Xura partner, Blacc Spot Media, a leading
WebRTC, mobile and web application development house, the app was
showcased and demoed for the first time during The Getting Real
with RTC demo event at TMC’s Real Time Web Solutions Conference in
New York, on the August 3rd, 2016.
The web-based prototype utilized forge’s SDK and, during The
Getting real demo, Xura, Weqool and Blacc Spot Media showed how a
combination of video and instant messaging (IM) interfaces – all
features available in the forge by Xura RTC platform – enables
users to meet, communicate, compete and grow friendships while
exercising together virtually. Weqool’s aim was to create a more
social and immersive fitness experience, through the use of RTC
functionality, providing an interactive, user-friendly platform
designed for users to watch recorded workouts, created by
professional fitness trainers, while also facilitating positive
user interactions via video call, IM and SMS.
JF Sullivan, EVP Enterprise & CMO at Xura, said: “We are
incredibly proud of this award, our third consecutive from TMC,
Systemwide Media and PKE Consulting. The gamification of apps is a
trend that is proving to work successfully, particularly when it
comes to health and fitness. If you’re looking to get fit, what’s
more motivating than having fun with your friends? This prototype
from Weqool, takes the forge SDK and does just that; now you can
level up with your friends or fitness instructor anytime, anywhere
and on any device – a little less monotonous than slogging away
alone on the treadmill.”
Lantre Barr, Founder & CEO, Blacc Spot Media went on to say,
“When start-up, Weqool approached us about wanting to enhance user
engagement within their fitness app, we knew they would need
something that could be implemented quickly and easily. Having
worked with the forge platform before with other clients, we knew
we could add things like click-to-communicate video, voice, IM,
group chat and conferencing and recording features very easily and
with the flexibility of supporting a variety of channels accessible
by any device.”
Alex Bulley, Co-Founder of Weqool commented, “Our aim was to
reinvent the concept of online fitness, by facilitating positive
interactions among users with common interests through the medium
of Weqool, making exercising more fun, engaging and social.
It has been a very exciting journey to bring our proof of concept
to life, and to be recognized for our work at this early stage and
during our first live outing is validation that our concept has
legs prior to an official launch. We are excited about what our
future has in store as we work to bring the app to market.”
The highly-anticipated return of the live Getting Real with RTC
Demonstrations was held in conjunction with The Real Time Web
Solutions Conference, co-located with DevCon 5 Web & Mobile App
Developer Conference, and is dedicated to the use of WebRTC to
enhance engagement capabilities into apps or websites. Hosted by
Phil Edholm, President and Principal at PKE Consulting LLC & UC
Strategies.com, the Judges used a scale of 1 to 10 in seven
categories for each of the 12 awards to determine the winners.
Competing companies only had 10 minutes to tell their stories,
demonstrating their WebRTC capabilities in a live environment,
presenting product demos and/or video clips, to convince a judging
panel of independent thought leaders in the WebRTC community, why
their implementation should be recognized as a winner.
For more information about the Weqool app, and its fully
immersive social experience which joins users together based on
their shared interests in skills and activities, you can watch
their commercial here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6__EmaoqzIs
By simply signing up, activating an account and joining the
forge community at http://portal.forge.xura.com, enterprises and
developers can enhance the experience of their app or pioneer new
services or use cases, while growing and managing engagement
opportunities by implementing real-time, secure peer-to-peer,
one-to-many and group interaction. To find out more or sign up for
a forge account, visit: forge.xura.com
About Xura, Inc.
Xura offers a portfolio of digital services solutions that
enable global communications across a variety of mobile devices and
platforms. We help communication service providers (CSPs) and
enterprises navigate and monetise the digital ecosystem to create
innovative, new experiences through our cloud-based offerings. Our
solutions touch more than three billion people through 350+ service
providers and enterprises in 140+ countries. You can find us
at Xura.com.
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