Watching Football through VR Glasses
Name
Course
Professor
Description of a Business
VR football is a private limited company which aims to make watching football more achievable and available for people in a new style. Virtual reality is a suite of hardware, service and software components allowing the end-users visualize and experience virtual environment of football and games in real-time. The demand for the VR is expected to increase in the coming years owing to the growing demand as a result of the increasing number of football fans. Moreover, the service is very efficient, reliable and affordable. Virtually, we have seen a business opportunity in football industry. It caters for people who can't afford going to the real football matches for various reasons, such as: time, money, availability of tickets.
Our main office is located in the London on Barret Street. We located there in order to make it even easier for people to make orders or discussing any issues or details about our product.
How it works
Users buy VR glasses either from us or in the VR shops. Then they would have to download an app which is available in App store for IOS and google play for Androids. Then each user has to sign up and sign in to the app and then choose a certain match he wants to watch and he has to pay for it. Then app automatically connects to the VR glass through the WIFI and glasses connect to our station which will be set up in the big stadiums and that's it! Whereas, special 3D cameras will be purchased by stadiums to transfer a signal to the station and then glasses, a spectator shall comfortably sit and enjoy his match. Currently, VR has emerged as a promising tool of watching football. Continued advances in VR improvements have supported the increase in usage and reliability. What makes application of VR in Football so distinctive is that it represents a simple linear extension of existing computer technology for human use. VR offers the potential to create systematic human testing and training that allow the precise control of complex , immersive, dynamic 3D stimulus presentation with which sophisticated interaction, behavior tracking, and performance recording is possible.
What VR football about
This is a new type of activity, which allows you to watch most of football matches in virtual reality. It creates a concept of you, sitting in the actual football match and allows you to enjoy spectating a match, just like you are in the stadium.
Who are our customers?
We are aiming to have a target audience aging from 26-32 and 51 to 69, who are our Boomers. Boomers, ages 51 to 69, are the 'biggest spenders' because they have extra cash from decades of saving and investing, according to Forrester.
Note in this promotional video it made sure that Boomers were its target audience. Also note how their testers all seem elated, not confused and certainly not dizzy.
What are the consumer research methods
Market research is often needed to ensure that we produce what consumers really want and not what we think. In our case we would be considering both methods primary research and secondary research and asking our target audience what features and extra things they would like us to do, in order to make them feel comfortable in using it.
Main methods would be:
-Surveys (online/real life)
-Focus groups
-Observation of customers who uses VR for different purposes
-Social networks
Legal Structure
This business will be a private limited company that's the owner liability will be limited to shares. The owner's activities will determine the business depth, profit or loss and tax. The company is limited to have 50 or fewer shareholders and the shares will be prohibited from trading publicly. The company acquires independent legal structure when it incorporates. When a business incorporates, it becomes a independent legal entity , meaning it is able to sue or own assets separate from the company owner. In addition, the corporate tax will be lower than those paid by other types of business even though the financial statements are filed not later than nine months after the fiscal year ends. This means, the first accounting starts immediately the company is incorporated. Proper records must be kept in order to pursue tax advantages. Again, shareholders must agree to the sale or transfer of shares in order to reduce the risk of hostile takeovers. The restriction placed on the sale of shares is an advantage because shareholders have limited options for liquidating shares.
Location
The business shall be located at Barret Street in London.
Human Resource
Bellow is the Management Hierarchy
The managing director shall make critical decision regarding the business across the departments. He should also develop and execute business strategies. The managing director should also ensure that the company policies and legal guidelines are communicated all the way from top to bottom. He should be able to analyze problematic situations and occurrences and provide a reliable solution to ensure the survival of the company and growth. Must have basic skills in Commerce and entrepreneurship and have excellent organisation skills and leadership skills. A degree in computer science is Mandatory and the salary scale shall be $38,000.
Financial manager should keep all the financial records for the business, balance accounts and receive and make payments for the company. The candidate must be able to show strong understanding of corporate finance and measures of performance. He should also be familiar with corporate law and poses outstanding analytical and problem solving skills. Must have a degree in business finance and accounting option. The basic skills include ability to compute with the internal standards of general accounting using quick books. The salary is $ 25,000.
Sales manager- the candidate is responsible for publication and advertising of business products. The personnel in this rank should be a holder of degree in marketing. He should be excellent communicator with great interpersonal skills and presentation skills. The candidate should be able to manage all marketing activities for the company and develop strategies that are in line with the company's objective. The personnel is also supposed to organize marketing campaigns, oversee marketing budget and give the company corporate identity. He should be able to understand the modern marketing skills very well. The candidate must also be able to create wide range of marketing materials, monitor and report on effectiveness of marketing communications. The salary is $ 25,000.
Production manager ' Ensure the product reaches the required standards and quality services. He should be able to estimate the costs and prepare production budgets. The candidate should be capable of organizing the workflow to meet specifications and deadlines. Generally, production manager is supposed to determine the amount of necessary resources (Workforce, raw materials and machinery). The manager should be a degree holder in Economics. He should be able to understand what is needed in the market as well as being conversant with total quality management systems model. He should also demonstrate knowledge of performance evaluation and budgeting concepts. The salary scale is $25,000.
Secretary- tipping and filling the documents. The worker at this category should have a diploma in secretariat. She should be able to type very fast and dress modestly. The candidate should be able to maintain customer confidence and protect operations by keeping information confidential. Most importantly, the personnel should be able to maintain company's schedule by maintaining calendar dates, arranging conferences, meetings and travel. Also, the candidate secures information by completing database backups and provides historical reference by utilizing filing and retrieval systems. The salary is $15,000.
Customer care ' He is supposed to be making and receiving calls for the company. The personnel doing this task should be a very eloquent communicator and have a degree a diploma in mass communication. The salary scale is $ 20,000.
Supervisor ' ensure the software producers utilize their time maximally on each output. Customer care are the image of the company, they are supposed to build a sustainable relationship and trust with customer accounts through open and interactive communication. More importantly, he/she sjpuld go extra mile and engage the customers, handle their complains, provide appropriate solutions and alternatives within the time limits; follow-up to ensure resolutions, keep records of the customer interactions, process customer accounts and file their documents. The personnel should have a degree in Computer science and be very conversant with programming. The salary scale is $ 35,000.
Developers- Software developers are the experts tasked with the duty of innovating and developing the software. They are also supposed to ensure that the running of software is successful to various clients. They create, update and add new features to the software. The candidate is always attached to computers in order to troubleshoot and debug applications when they identify slow performance. The developers should be highly knowledgeable and timely. The personnel should have a degree in computer science or IT. The salary scale is $ 28,000.
Security ' ensure the visitors profile is well kept and the assets of the business premise are well guarded. The applicant should have past experience of 3 years in top security firm. Again, he should have a certificate of good conduct and Certificate in security studies. The salary scale is $ 11,000.
Cleaner- to ensure that the compound and Business premise is extremely clean. This personnel is supposed to be registered to a firm that offers environment friendly cleaning services. The salary scale is $ 11,000.
Finance Section
The company will use long-term financing for assets and projects while the continuing operations will be financed in short-term.
Long-term sources will include equity financing and capital notes. They help is reducing capital risk since the cost of equity is a deductable expense. On short-term financing, the company will purely rely of accounts receivable financing. We shall take commercial bills to the bank whereby the payment will be discounted thus the bank will charge a small fee.
Costs
Start-up cost
ITEM COST ( USD)
Rent Deposit (2months) $20,000
Furniture and fittings $10,000
Business Adverts $10,000
Premises Renovation $20,000
Licences and permits $2,000
Insurance $4,000
Water and Electricity $20,000
Miscellaneous $10,000
TOTAL $96,000
Fixed and Variable Cost
ITEM 1STYEAR
(US dollars) 2ND YEAR
(US dollars) 3RD YEAR
(US dollars)
FIXED COSTS
Salaries
Licenses and Permits
Rent
Insurance
Total Fixed Costs
Variable Costs
Advertisement
Transport
Electricity
Water bills
Telephone bills
Total variables
312,000
20,000
120,000
48,000
$500,000
51,000
67,500
90,500
48,500
44,000
$360,000
312,000
20,000
120,000
48,000
$500,000
48,500
65,000
88,000
47,000
41,000
$346,500
312,000
20,000
120,000
48,000
$500,000
52,000
64,500
85,500
49,000
42,500
$350,000
Budget
Sales Budget
Year 1Year 2rd Year 3rd Year
Receipts
Cash sales 3, 200,000 3, 580, 000 3, 950,000
Debtors 750,000 550,000 800,000
Loan 470,000 579,000 834,000
Total Receipts 4,420,000 4,709,000 5,584,000
Payments
Cash purchases 360,000 346,500 350,000
Creditors - 120,000 200,000
Fixed assets 690,000 566,000 535,000
Expenses 800,000 846,500 850,000
Less total payments 1,130,000 1,117,500 1,250,000
Net receipt payments 3,290,000 3,592,000 4,349,000
Add Opening balance 4,000,000 4,500,000 4,880,000
Closing balance 800,000 740,000 880,000
Cost Budget
ITEM 1st year
USD 2ND year
USD 3RD Year
USD
EXPENSES
salaries
Wages
Advertisement
Transport
Water bills
Insurance
License and permits
Electricity
Rent
Telephone
Depreciation
TOTAL 0PERATING EXPENSES
312,000
58,500
51,000
67,500
48,625
48,000
20,000
69,125
120,000
44,000
5,000
$843,750
$ 656,250
312,000
57,000
48,500
65,000
47,000
48,000
20,000
88,000
120,000
41,000
8,000
$874,000
$ 866,000
312,000
60,000
52,000
64,000
40,200
48,000
20,000
69,000
120,000
40,000
4,000
$829,000
$ 1,071,000
Production Budget
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
Budgeted Sales Unit 5000 7000 8000
Planned ending units 500 500 500
Total production required 5500 7500 8500
Beginning Units
1000
500
500
Planned production units
4500
7000
8000
Profit Budget
ITEM 1st year
USD 2ND year
USD 3RD Year
USD
Opening stock
Closing stock
Cost of goods sold
sales
Gross profit
Other income
Discount allowed
TOTAL INCOME
0PERATING
EXPENSES
salaries
Wages
Advertisement
Transport
Water bills
Insurance
License and permits
Electricity
Rent
Telephone
Depreciation
TOTAL 0PERATING EXPENSES
Net profit before tax
Tax provision (13%)
Net profit after tax 4,000,000
800,000
3,200,000
3,500,000
300,000
1,200,000
1,500,000
312,000
58,500
51,000
67,500
48,625
48,000
20,000
69,125
120,000
44,000
5,000
843,750
656,250
85,312.5
570,937.5 4,500,000
740,000
3,760,000
4,250,000
490,000
1,250,000
1,740,000
312,000
57,000
48,500
65,000
47,000
48,000
20,000
88,000
120,000
41,000
8,000
874,000
866,000
112,580
753,460 4,880,000
880,000
4,000,000
4,600,000
600,000
1,300,000
1,900,000
312,000
60,000
52,000
64,000
40,200
48,000
20,000
69,000
120,000
40,000
4,000
829,000
1,071,000
139,230
931,770
Breakeven Point
Breakeven point is a situation whereby no profit or loss is made in the business.
(A) BREAK EVEN POINT = (FIXED COST)/'(CONTRIBUTION [email protected])
(B) CONTRIBUTION =sales 'variable cost
(C) CONTRIBUTION MARGIN='(@contribution)/sales
1st year 2rd year 3rd year
Contribution
Contribution margin percentage
Breakeven point 3,500,000-360,000
=Ksh.3,140,000
(3,140,000/3,500,000)X 100
=89.71%
(500,000X100)/89.71
=Ksh.557,351.46 4,250,000-346,000
=Ksh.3,904,000
(3,904,000/4,250,000)X 100
=91.86%
(500,000/91.86)X100
=Ksh.544,306.55 4,600,000-350,000=Ksh.4,250,000
(4,250,000/4,600,000)X100
=92.39%
(500,000/92.39)X100=Ksh.541,184.11
Financial Forecast
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
Opening balance - 225,625 608,625
Cash inflow
Cash sales 650,000 775,000 950,000
Debtors payment - 20,000 55,000
TOTAL CASH INFLOW 650,000 1,020,625 1,613,625
Cash outflows
Cash purchases 100,000 150,000 175,000
Payment to creditors - 50,000 80,000
Salaries 78,000 78,000 78,000
Advertisement 12,000 13,000 15,000
Transport 18,000 16,000 16,500
Telephone 12,000 10,000 11,500
Rent 30,000 30,000 30,000
Insurance 12,000 12,000 12,000
Electricity 22,625 21,000 23,000
Water bills 12,125 11,000 13,000
Wages
Licenses and permit 14,625
5000 16,000
5000 13,500
5000
TOTAL CASH OUTFLOW 424,375 412,000 472,500
ACCUMULATED CASH 225,625 608,625 1,141,125
Marketing Mix
Promotion and Pricing Mechanism
Pricing Strategy
In our business we will be using the strategy called ,,Pricing for Market Penetration'' which means that we will aim to attract buyers by offering lower prices on goods and services. While many new companies use this technique to draw attention away from their competition, penetration pricing does tend to result in an initial loss of income for the business.
Promotion
We will be offering different promotions. For instance one of them would be an option in the VR football app. It would be a special subscription for 10 matches, which will include a 10 tickets to any matches, another subscription is for 20 matches + gives you an option to invite more than 2 friends with you, as with normal ticket you can only invite 1 friend. The 3rd subscription will include 30 matches + invitations for 3 frinds + rare avatars, which is not available with normal ticket. The point of this promotion is that people will save money buy purchasing those subscriptions and also getting little bonuses like extra avatars, which will also work as some kind of motivation to purchases subscription.
Unique selling point
There is no competitor in the current market right now
Since the VR Football app is the only app of it's kind available on the market. The low price is also an advantage, customers only need to subscribe through the app to get access to the games they want to see and they need to pay between x and y.
The price is not set automatically, it depends on the different games and on the popularity of the teams playing against each other.
Who are the main competitors?
Our main competitors are real football match ticket sellers. Therefore, every business sells tickets for a football match could be our potential competitor.
Online sellers:
Premierleague.co.uk
livefootballtickets.co.uk
ticketmaster.co.uk
onlineticketexpress.com
Financial considerations
Cost of making the app: pay the Apple Store, Google Play to keep the app on their platform
The cost of the advertising (like ads on YouTube or pop-up ads)
Find investors would be interesting for our company since we don't have a huge budget, it would help the company develop
We have to consider giving 20% interests to the VR Company
We have to give 10% interests to the stadium for using their cameras (depending on their profits)
SWOT Analysis
Generally, a SWOT analysis serves to uncover the optimal match between the internal strength and the weaknesses of a given entity and environmental trends (Opportunities and threats) that the business mighty face while running in the market place.
Strength
Quality of the product due to technical advantages in the Mobile Market
The spectator is able to watch live at his convenience.
Gaming factors to enhance motivation ' Apart from watching football live. The customers are able to watch game of their choice. This specification increases motivation leading to increased sales.
Great support from developers- The team responsible for developing the software does not disappoint. It is very qualified.
Weakness
Requires a lot funding ' development of VR requires a big chunk of capital because the product has to work smart. There is a lot of research and development.
Not very common- this is a new product and it requires a lot of marketing. As such, a lot of money is needed.
Football traditions ' Most of the football funs like watching matches as a team. Therefore, some people see no need of buying the gadget.
Opportunities
Online advertising ' There is room for growth. We shall advertise our product on social media regularly.
Scientific acceptance ' researchers and academicians have just accepted VR as another tech evolution with no harm.
Gaming industry- the introduction of gaming in VR has attracted more consumers.
Threats
After-effect lawsuit- VR is a new technology and companies with conflicting interest can sue maliciously.
Limited awareness- VR is little known by people who are less interested in football. As such, it is difficult to sell outside pitch lovers.
Perception that VR would affect eyesight after prolonged usage. Consumers lack clear information on how to use, others fear that it has health complications in future.
Reference
D. Westerhoff, 2011: Reality, A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
J. Jerald 2015. The VR Book. Association of Computer Machinery and Morgan & Claypool Publishers.
L. Olson, D. M. Krum, E. A. Suma, and M. Bolas. 2011.A design for a smartphonebased head mounted display. In Proceedings IEEE Virtual Reality Conference.
R. Steuer 1992. Defining virtual reality: Dimensions determining telepresence. Journal of Communication.
T. B. Sheridan 2012. Musings on telepresence and virtual presence. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments.
...(download the rest of the essay above)