LearnBrite Completes Melee Studios Acquisition and Appoints New CTO to Lead Expansion
London, UK
25th June 2015
In a further strengthening of LearnBrite’s position in the global digital education market LearnBrite today announced the acquisition of Melee Studios, a privately held Spanish mobile media company that provides high-value content and solutions in games and education.
Melee studios founder and CEO Juan Campos will lead LearnBrite’s next phase of growth as the Company’s new CTO. Winner of various awards for mobile gaming and programming excellence, the expertise within Melee Studios leverages digital and mobile technologies to reach people across the globe.
“When I saw what Danny’s company was doing with virtual reality it blew me away! There are some great things coming in virtual reality and augmented reality and we want to be a part of that. Joining LearnBrite positions the combined company for rapid growth in the technology that we are uniquely positioned to deliver,” said Juan Campos. “We are thrilled to be joining LearnBrite, and for the impact which our combined solutions offer to people.”
With business in 5 countries, LearnBrite are uniquely positioned to offer products for eLearning on flat screen or VR/AR, on smartphones to tablets and computers.
“We are really pleased to formally begin our relationship with Melee Studios and its accomplished team to bring our game-changing eLearning technology to the wider market” said LearnBrite’s CEO Danny Stefanic. “Juan and his team share our vision and believe that by combining the best and latest technologies with proven eLearning techniques, they can provide the most effective learning experience and outcome. We look forward to working with the team in the years ahead as we establish ourselves as leaders in eLearning technology solutions.”
About Melee Studios
Melee Studios is located in the south of Spain and provides high-value solutions in games and education and with an exceptional record of achievement in the development of programs for mobile platforms and web products. They have launched ten mobile game titles in the last two years with over a million downloads. They are recognized as a leading Spanish Unity3D games developer and have strong expertise in both HTML5 and WebGL. As a recognised PwC Accelerator Program participant, Melee have benefited from Price Waterhouse Cooper’s identification and support of fast-growing companies targeting global markets in a faster and smarter way.
About LearnBrite
LearnBrite is one the companies grown by VR veteran entrepreneur, Danny Stefanic. His consortium headed by ExitReality includes Moodalytics.com, MoodleBadges.com, Twinity.com, ResponsiveVoice.org and Koinup.com
LearnBrite are active in the eLearning sector with avatars, non linear dialogue, gamification and virtual environments. They have developed an eLearning platform based on HTML5, offering increased levels of engagement, involvement and motivation, facilitating ”self-paced” learning and memorable and immersive learning experiences.
The Company is focused on continuing its market expansion and new product development to meet the global trend towards leveraging 3D and virtual reality technology to improve student performance.
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Augmented Reality Tourism
A historic French castle is inhabited with digital recreations of historic artefacts. Using Unity 3D game engine and tablet viewing.
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Video
Source URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7w1CDY0RMY
3D Education
“This box is an essential piece of furniture for medieval travellers. Used to easily store and transport archives, clothes, weapons and food.”
Branching Video Scenarios
Serious games for reading body language.
Bios
Danny Stefanic
LearnBrite CEO
Danny is CEO of the 3D internet company ExitReality Inc, founder of the International Virtual Reality Association and chairman of the recently acquired games social network Koinup. Called a “visionary” by his peers and deemed by Wall Street CIOs and Silicon Valley VCs to be “one of the pioneers in his field”, he has been creating ground breaking 3D businesses for over 20 years.
He has assisted companies with angel investment, international licensing, acquisitions, exits, managing distributed teams and has personally closed IP acquisitions valued at $85M.
Danny actively works with young businesses to share his experiences and give back to the community.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/exitreality
Juan Campos
Founder Melee Studios
Juan has a career starting with on-the-ground coding experience and a trajectory into mobile, video and serious games production. As a games producer, he has managed teams using different technologies and platforms, leading to his own “patented” technique.
His game titles have had over half a million downloads and received awards and nominations. He has a deep knowledge of game mechanics and engaging experiences.
Being one of Spain’s leading Unity3D and WebGL experts, he has been helping others through workshops and training over the last 2 years.
Qualifications: Bachelor of Engineering Technology Telecommunications Audio Visual University of Malaga
https://es.linkedin.com/in/jfcamposv
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