The UXplore journey would not have been possible without the commitment and support of Carl Vaz, who stood behind the team from the earliest stages—well before there was a client, a proven market, or a clear commercial path.

When UXplore entered a completely new vertical in 2022, Carl ensured that production and the ground team in Trivandrum could continue moving forward. Coming out of the COVID period, when many businesses were struggling to restart, he made sure the team did not stop. His support created the continuity that allowed the technical vision to keep developing.

The team continued building toward a vision that ultimately evolved into what UXplore believes became the world's first AR/XR spatial marketplace anchored at physical locations.

To establish an initial commercial vertical, Carl focused on the team's strongest domain expertise—travel and tourism, working closely with Varghese Oommen. Carl's extensive international experience became instrumental in understanding how UXplore could be adapted to different markets, cultures, and business environments. Rather than treating UXplore as a single product for every market, he helped guide the team toward developing localised solutions based on regional needs.

Today, Carl leads UXplore's Go-to-Market strategy, market penetration, and regional partnerships, working with partners to identify local opportunities and shape solutions around the specific requirements of each market. He also leads investment enquiries and cross-border expansion initiatives alongside Varghese Oommen.

The combined strengths of Carl and Varghese have enabled UXplore to move beyond being simply an AR/XR technology company. Their work is helping position UXplore as a solution provider that connects technology, businesses, places, and communities in ways that were previously not possible through conventional AR/XR platforms.

Looking Ahead

As UXplore moves toward the transition to smart glasses and the growing role of AI, Carl and the wider UXplore team will leverage their international and regional networks to expand UXplore initially as a freemium product, building a strong user and content ecosystem before scaling commercial opportunities.

With the upcoming Chat with UXplore AI, Carl is helping position UXplore to deliver a customer-first solution, beginning with the travel and tourism market, where understanding the customer and having the right content are fundamental. The vision is simple: the customer is king, and content is king.

By bringing together UXplore's technology, upcoming AI capabilities, location intelligence, content, and Carl's international market network, the next phase is focused on making UXplore accessible to a much larger audience—creating the foundation for growth as the world moves from mobile experiences toward AI-powered, spatial and wearable computing.

Varghese Oommen plays a key role in shaping UXplore's enterprise solutions and cross-border expansion, working closely with Carl Vaz as a powerful business duo. Together, they bring international market experience and a strong understanding of travel, tourism, and local business ecosystems to UXplore.

Their approach begins with a focused principle: solve for niche areas and specific locations first. UXplore enables businesses, artisans, enterprises, creators, and local service providers to gain visibility in and around the very locations where their customers are already present—something that was previously difficult to achieve through conventional AR/XR technology.

Varghese is particularly focused on understanding the needs of the local artisan, enterprise, and creator who can easily become lost in the sea of digital visibility. Instead of competing for attention across massive online platforms, UXplore creates an opportunity for these businesses and creators to become discoverable where their stories, products, services, and physical locations actually matter.

The future potential is even greater. With the evolution toward AR glasses, spatial computing, AI-powered experiences, and location-based interaction, the concept of virtual booths, stalls, and rooms can become a natural part of the physical world. UXplore is building the foundation for that future while using the technology available today to create meaningful connections one location at a time.

Varghese's niche-focused approach is about building the ecosystem location by location. A local artisan, a heritage site, a restaurant, a hotel, a creator, or an enterprise can become part of a larger spatial network. Their stories can then connect from place to place, allowing travellers to better understand where they are, what makes that place unique, and what is available around them.

As people travel, UXplore can help them embrace local culture while simultaneously directing foot traffic toward the businesses, creators, services, and experiences located at that point of interest. This creates a cycle where discovery generates visibility, visibility generates engagement, and engagement strengthens the local ecosystem.

Varghese's vision is therefore not simply to put businesses on another digital platform. It is to bring digital discovery into the physical world, giving communities and enterprises a new way to be found, understood, and experienced—one location, one story, and one ecosystem at a time.

Together with Carl Vaz, Varghese is helping build the commercial and enterprise foundation for UXplore's next phase: from location-based AR today, toward intelligent spatial booths, stalls, rooms, and AI-powered experiences tomorrow.

Varghese has a strong network of key decision makers across various Industry verticals.

UXplore began its immersive journey with Unity, establishing the foundation for its location-aware augmented reality platform. Building on that foundation, Abin Mathews Benny, an Electronics Engineer by education and trade and a full-stack developer at UXplore, brings together hardware, software, graphics, cloud and immersive-computing expertise.

From the early stages of UXplore, Abin worked with the guidance of Joshua Ninan Oommen, drawing on Joshua's experience in location-based broadcasting through his work with Shazam Entertainment London in SEAP, PuttiApps NZ and Nokia Asia Singapore subcontracting projects. Joshua provided the domain and product direction for bringing location, content and technology together, while Abin translated that vision into the technical architecture and implementation. This combination enabled UXplore to evolve with a lean team and minimal human resources.

Abin leads the design and development of UXplore's immersive spatial platform across Android, iOS and web ecosystems. His expertise spans Unity, Kotlin, ARKit, ARCore, Firebase, cloud architecture, GPU computation and cross-platform development, enabling UXplore to build scalable location-aware solutions combining augmented reality, geospatial intelligence and real-time cloud services.

His Electronics Engineering background adds an important hardware dimension to UXplore's technology. Abin's understanding extends beyond application software into GPU computation, device capabilities, sensors, cameras, graphics processing and on-device computing. This hardware-aware approach is particularly valuable as AI increasingly moves closer to the device, and his research and ML documentation on GPU computation for the upcoming UXplore AIChat further strengthens this capability.