Discover the Health Benefits of Magic Horizons Virtual Reality
Release Date: 02/13/2025
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About Giorgio Koppehele and Martin Koppehele:
The brothers, Giorgio and Martin Koppehele, founded the company Magic Horizons GmbH (LLC) in 2018 for the conception, production and distribution of Virtual Reality applications. With their international team they develop, produce and sell Virtual Reality (VR) applications for a global B2B market: • Stress reduction, resilience strengthening • Patient calming, less anxiety • Employee well-being, mental training • Mental health and regeneration Martin, alongside to his position as Co-CEO, also works as CFO: he has an extreme high-level expertise in sales and licensing business which he earned also in the former companies which Martin & Giorgio have founded: Avenue Music and Classic Arts GmbH (LLC). Giorgio, alongside to his position as Co-CEO, also works as CTO: he has an extreme high-level expertise in stereoscopic, full spherical 3D visuals as well as in surround and binaural audio production. In the past, the productions were released on Blu-ray and UHD Blu-ray, as well as they were performed and broadcasted via 360 planetariums, cinemas, internet and TV.
Giorgio and Martin bring to Magic Horizons an extraordinary level of expertise in immersive audiovisual media, which they gained through years of successful productions in their first two companies, Avenue Music and Classic Arts GmbH (LLC). Through these experiences, they won numerous awards of the highest levels. Since 2013, Giorgio and Martin also produced 360° relaxation Planetarium shows in cooperation with Planetarium Hamburg, where they gained extensive experience and pioneered work in the field of 360 visuals and 3D audio with immersive surround sound. In this area, they benefited from their expertise in immersive visuals and audio and collaborated with exceptional partners such as Dolby Atmos, Fraunhofer Institute (inventors of MP3), and many more. As part of Magic Horizons’ commitment to the highest quality products, the team is honored to receive scientific advice from gamelab.berlin, a research and development platform of the interdisciplinary laboratory Image Knowledge Design, Cluster of Excellence of the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.
With an exceptional design and programming team, Magic Horizons creates VR applications at the highest artistic and technical levels. Magic Horizons also works with King’s College London, the University of Southern California (USC) and the NHS Cambridgeshire.
About Todd Keitz:
As founder/CEO of 17 Commerce LLC, Todd Keitz is responsible for leading Magic Horizons in the United States. Todd‘s personal Patient First ethos, which has informed his decades of professional endeavors as a startup founder/CEO, corporate leader, consultant, and mentor, fits perfectly with Magic Horizons mission to help individuals around the world find relief from stress and anxiety. He brings a holistic and humanistic approach to business and life, which mirrors that of Magic Horizons leadership and overall team.
In 2017, Todd first met Magic Horizons co-founder Giorgio Koppehele and his wife Suna at a startup pitch event in San Francisco, California. That meeting led to a friendship forming and two years later they all met up in Paris for a conference where Todd was an unofficial part of the team. A week later he joined Giorgio and Suna in Amsterdam for another conference, where he met co-founder Martin Koppehele and his wife Gabi. It was during these two weeks together where the concept of Magic Horizons USA was hatched.