Fantasy 360 was created to deliver the most personalized and fully immersive experiences imaginable using VR, AR and Projection Mapping.
At Fantasy 360 we create highly engaging and interactive experiences meant to leaving lasting impressions on those that experience them. Flat, two-dimensional content just isn’t enough anymore–people want to be able to immerse themselves inside an experience and see, hear and feel it. Our team of creative thinkers is focused on delivering the most personalized and fully immersive experiences imaginable. Imagine how much more engaging a live event broadcast might be if fans had the controls over where they sat and what they watched. Now it’s happening.
Our Team
Shafin Diamond
Chief Executive Officer
Shafin is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, and sports junkie. Shafin launched his first company, an online dating website, from his university dorm room at the age of 19.
Since then, through his venture, Victory Square Labs, he has launched over 40 startups in 21 different countries, employing over 350 people and generating over $100 million in annual revenues. In 2014, Shafin was named Angel Investor of the Year by Angel Forum. Shafin is also BC’s Top 40 under 40 and the recipient of the Prime Minister’s Volunteer Award.
Ray Walia
Chief Operating Officer
Serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in both the entertainment and technology sectors, and numerous awards for his achievements as an entrepreneur, mentor and thought leader
Ray founded Launch Academy, Vancouver’s leading entrepreneurship facility, which has hosted more than 450 startups that have raised over $80 Million in funding. In 2015 Ray co-founded Victory Square, a startup studio with a focus on sports and entertainment technology companies.
Sheri Rempel
Chief Financial Officer
Ms. Rempel has more than 25 years of accounting and financial management experience. Ms. Rempel started her career with public companies in 2001 and currrently provides senior
financial and advisory services to Canadian private and public corporations, acting in officer or controller capacities. In 2006 she founded CTB Consulting to provide ‘one-stop’ financial reporting services to public companies on the TSX and TSX-V exchanges.
Howard Blank
Director
A long-time VP (2002-2014) of Great Canadian Gaming Corporation (TSX GC), Howard is the principal of Point Blank Entertainment and consults to numerous projects in gaming and entertainment.
Howard is also very active in the community, serving as President of the Variety BC children’s charity, VP of the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame, Co-Chair of the 9-11 Memorial and a member of the Boards of the Coast Foundation and YVR for KIDS. Howard received “The Lifetime Gaming Award” and “Philanthropy Award” from the Canadian Gaming Association along with The Paul Harris Fellowship from Rotary International and the 2015 BC Community Achievement Award.
Tom Mayenknecht
Director
Tom’s experience spans newspaper journalism, television, professional tennis, executive management leadership with both the Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies of the National Basketball
Association and the start ups of General Motors Place (now Rogers Arena), TSN 1040 all-sports radio station and the Vancouver Ravens of the National Lacrosse League. Tom is also the host of The Sport Market on TSN Radio in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.
Peter Smyrniotis
Director
Peter Smyrniotis is a technologist, entrepreneur, and commercialization & growth professional based in Vancouver, BC. Peter is a graduate of the University of Toronto,
with expertise in Technology, Zoology and Anthropology and a Master in IT from Royal Roads University. Furthermore, he has completed training and certification in business development, strategy, and technology from SAP, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems.
Fantasy 6 Sports, along with its subsidiary Fantasy 360 Technologies specializes in building immersive experiences virtual reality, augmented reality & projection mapping.
The subsidiary allows Fantasy 6 Sports Inc. to effectively tap into the fast-growing market built on immersive experiences in which fans use VR devices to either play games or watch live sporting events. According to Digi-Capital’s new Augmented/Virtual Reality Report 2015, the AR/VR market could hit $150 billion in revenues by 2020.
Having the ability to immerse oneself in a live sporting event, concert or video game that allows you to virtually be in the game, concert or other event itself is an extraordinary experience.
The creation of Fantasy 360 Technologies Inc. is a natural extension of the successful track record Fantasy 6 has developed since its launch in the spring of 2015. The past year has seen Fantasy 6 sign an MOU to provide the BC Sports Hall of Fame in Vancouver a series of new galleries and exhibits featuring immersive sports technologies and innovative new VR applications around the Olympics, Football, Hockey, Auto Racing, Baseball, Basketball and more. Fantasy 6 also built a dynamic 360 Virtual Arena that was showcased at the Fan Village during the World Cup of Hockey in Toronto and the Heritage Classic in Winnipeg.
On the one hand, we’re building VR games and experiences to allow fans to score on a shootout against their favourite hockey goaltender or parachute out of an airplane to save the world. And, on the other hand, we’re already locked in on the ever-expanding role of VR for corporate staff training, from pilots in jet simulators to police preparing for ground situations. The combination of the two markets easily make VR one of the most robust sectors in tech.