A not-typical SBIR awardee, Tesseract Ventures is deescribed as consisting of four unique studios – Cyber Physical, Future Lab, Experiential Entertainment and Human Things - each studio having its own discipline, from smart spaces, to robotics, software and hardware platforms—even tech-based toys. Extracted from firm's website: Tesseract is described as structured to enable American industry to become smarter, better connected and more efficient with the firm's next-generation robots, smart spaces, 21st century software and radically connected platforms. The firm is one of very few to be awarded a Phase II by the AIr Force among the several hundred projects selected for $50K awards based on a brief (few minute) in-person presentation - not ever used previously by any other SBIR agency. Under the AFWERX grant - $1.26M -Tesseract Ventures is funded to develop open/proprietary tools and technologies including the Tesseract Smart Space, Prism connected wearables and hardware, Node security hubs and others. These radically connected technologies are reported as being developed to aid the Air Force in advanced data visualization, enhanced situational awareness, location tracking of supplies and resources,
