About Wesley Oxenham

Wesley Oxenham is the co-founder of Peekspy ltd., (creator of Fanvenues). He was born in the beautiful island of Mauritius and spent the last 7 years in Singapore. He graduated in 2008 from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a degree in Architecture.

It was back in university that he first shared his dream and passion of starting his own business. Three years later, testament to the dogged determination with which he applies to all things, Peekspy Pte Ltd was born.

As all entrepreneurs would share, starting a business, especially while still a student, is no easy feat. Fortunately, he had the foresight to bring on board as chief executive, Paymon Rasekhy, who founded his company in Singapore after 17 years of working in various engineering and management roles in the semicon fabless and IDM companies. Joining him as chief technologist is sibling, Oliver Oxenham, one of the pioneer batches of graduates from NUS Overseas College partnering Stanford University.

About the company

Peekspy’s portfolio includes 3D interactive maps implemented in the Central, Law, Chinese and Music Libraries of the National University of Singapore. They are also exclusive providers of 3D seat views with Seatwave, ticketing giants of Europe.

Currently, they are working with numerous clients in the United States to provide 3D interactive seat maps, a first in the ticketing industry. The company was the only Singaporean company exhibiting and to have exhibited at the World Ticket Summit 2010 and World Ticket Conference 2010 in Las Vegas.

Intellectual property
The company has developed a unique process to create accurate 3D models, without the need for physical site visits. Their database, the world's current largest, includes 3D venues in US, UK, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, China and Singapore. They are currently in the process of modelling all other major sport and concert venues worldwide, with various seating layouts for each.

Article published in Strait Times Singapore on 02/01/2010 highlighting the new product called "fanvenues".

Spying the interactive way

Article published in Business Times Singapore on 3/11/08 highlights Peekspy team, the services that we offer as well as our vision for the future of the company.

"Peekspy Pte Ltd, started this May, is the Mauritian nationals' first step towrads their vision of providing fully interactive, realistic previews of places."

"In the future, a user should find it possible to search for anything and everything. Not by looking at words the old school way, but by navigating accurate graphical representations of the place. He should be able to interact with other users in an online virtual world where it is equally easy and aesthetic to acquire information."

"We wanted to try something different. Not just indoor maps, but an integrated 3D encyclopedia of one building, constantly kept up to date and interactive through the upload of videos and information updates."

"The brothers dream of Peekspy as a worldwide venture in 15 years' time. they intend to stay competitive by constantly planning ahead, both in terms of sourcing for new 3D technologies to use as well as beginning work on long-term projects, in order to keep the doors open to any business opportunity."

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Interior 3D Building Tour With Google Earth Plugin

An article about my company,published on Google Earth Blog.
Click here to see the article on the blog.

A Singapore-based company called Peekspy has used Google Earth technology in an innovative way. Instead of just showing the normal Earth map or an exterior 3D building, they are instead using Google Earth technology to provide a 3D architectural walkthrough of the inside of a building. Really, its like a 3D tour guide of the interior of a building. They chose to use the new Google Earth plugin to present their building tour which lets you present 3D content in a browser window and put your own interface around the Google Earth window.

The building shown is the National University of Singapore (NUS) library and the 3D model is quite detailed with all kinds of photo textures to add realism. Click here to view the NUS library 3D Tour. This application might be a bit slow on older computers (or with slow video cards) because it is 3D intensive. They "blank out" the Earth view in Google Earth and all you see is a 3D model of one level/floor of the library. Give it a moment or two to load. The first view is level 4 of the library, if you click "Level 4" on the list on the right, you'll get a list of places you can view on that floor. Click on one and it will fly you to that part of the floor. This is using Google Earth's built-in touring capabilities to help conduct a "walkthrough". You can also use the Google Earth navigational controls to move around, but it can be awkward with the current setup. I think if they scaled up the building size you could use the controls to "walk around" better.

Google Earth wasn't designed to provide 3D tours of the insides of buildings. One reason it takes a moment to load the library model is that Google Earth is still loading the background 3D terrain and imagery (even though you can't see it). But, Peekspy has shown GE can be used for this. And, I think it works pretty well. Tools like the 3D modeling software Google SketchUp were designed to provide 3D building tours. However, I would guess there are more people familiar with Google Earth than any other 3D mainstream application. I'm always amazed at the multitude of different applications of GE technology. A real 3D tour of the inside of a building is pretty slick!