Volta started as a final major project in Alex Kane’s masters program at the Royal College of Art / Imperial College London as a VR interface for spatial audio production.

In Alex’s own words:

I’ve been playing and producing music since I was a kid – drums, guitar, piano, DJ and producing. Naturally, I grew fascinated with using mixed reality, physics engines and gestural interfaces to control and shape music while building the prototype during my masters program.

I couldn’t stop working on Volta even after graduating. I began building the foundations of our company and in that process formed the belief that mixed reality will become a respected art form on par with fine art, cinema, music, gaming, theatre, etc.

We believe that cost and complexity hold mixed reality back from realizing this potential. The more people that have access to the tools the more experimentation happens, the sooner meaningful works of art get produced and the value of the medium as a whole grows. So we are democratizing the tools to create interactive / experiential performances, expanding the functionality of existing platforms and creating new revenue streams for artists. Our long term ambitions are to build our own augmented reality platform as well as the biggest library of user generated mixed reality content in the world to accompany it. Experience is the canvas of this medium and Volta aims to be the de facto paintbrush.

Our ambition is to be the pathway to and foundation of a new artform. Boost’s experience in digital consuming and their belief in its ability to drive the future of media in general, made for an ideal lead investor. We have only recently started taking advantage of Boost’s experience / expertise and are really seeing material benefit of it. The Boost team is very honest in their guidance and support, which means that you have to appreciate and accept hard truths about your company and running of it. I truly value those conversations.