FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our condensed
interim financial statements and other financial information appearing elsewhere
in this quarterly report. In addition to historical information, the following
discussion and other parts of this quarterly report contain forward-looking
statements under applicable securities laws. You can identify these statements
by forward-looking words such as "plan", "may", "will", "expect", "intend",
"anticipate", believe", "estimate" and "continue" or similar words.
Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts, and
include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our products and services,
including our digital watermarking technology and Cloud-based document
protection system, our data privacy and data protection services and solutions,
our technology, our cash needs, including our ability to fund our future capital
expenditures and working capital requirements, and our expectations regarding
competition and growth in our sector, are forward looking statements, the future
sources and availability of additional funding, and the effect of funding
arrangements on projects and products. You should read statements that contain
these words carefully because they discuss future expectations and plans, which
contain projections of future results of operations or financial condition or
state other forward-looking information. We believe that it is important to
communicate future expectations to investors. However, there may be events in
the future that we are not able to accurately predict or control. Accordingly,
we do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements for
any reason, even if new information becomes available or other events occur in
the future, except as required by law.
The forward-looking statements included herein are based on current expectations
that involve a number of risks and uncertainties set forth under "Risk Factors"
in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022
and other periodic reports filed with the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission ("SEC"). Accordingly, to the extent that this quarterly report
contains forward-looking statements regarding the financial condition, operating
results, business prospects or any other aspect of the Company, please be
advised that the Company's actual financial condition, operating results and
business performance may differ materially from that projected or estimated by
the Company in forward-looking statements.
OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY
Oculus VisionTech Inc. (OVTZ) is a Canadian-based development-stage technology
company focused on cyber security, data privacy and data protection solutions
for Enterprise business customers. Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada, the company was originally founded by image processing experts and is
operated by experienced leadership. Currently, OVTZ is expanding and investing
in a suite of new data protection and data privacy security products that will
revolutionize CCPA, GDPR, LGPD and other data privacy legislation compliance for
both data subjects and data controllers worldwide. Our mission is innovation of
viable software tools that enable intelligent automated solutions for public
cloud customer services and needs specific to data privacy and data protection
for individuals, organizations and their customers worldwide, through a vision
of mutually trusted data compliance.
Our Forget-Me-Yes® data privacy product is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
platform developed to specifically address the global 'Right-to-be-Forgotten'
(RtbF) and Right-of-Erase (RoE) legal components of Brazil's LGPD, Europe's
GDPR, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) and
Virginia CDPA data privacy regulatory compliance. An additional new data
protection software tool, ComplyScan®, is being developed to address public
cloud data governance compliance. Our legacy Cloud Document Protection System
(Cloud-DPS) technology leveraged our digital watermarking technology to enable
OVTZ to offer a SaaS-based document management platform for tamper-proof
document authentication and protection. Historically, we have used our digital
watermarking technology for streaming video content distribution based on
embedded digital watermarking, as well as video-on-demand (VOD) systems,
services and source-to-destination digital media delivery solutions that allow
live or recorded digitized and compressed video to be transmitted through
Internet, intranet, satellite or wireless connectivity.
We were incorporated on April 18, 1986, as "First Commercial Financial Group
Inc." in the Province of Alberta, Canada. In 1989, our name was changed to
"Micron Metals Canada Corp.", which purchased 100% of the outstanding shares of
USA Video Inc., a Texas corporation, in order to focus on the digital media
business. In 1995, we changed our name to "USA Video Interactive Corp." and
continued out of the Province of Alberta into the State of Wyoming. At a
shareholders meeting held on December 30, 2011, a resolution was passed to
change our name to "Oculus VisionTech Inc." and to alter our share capital by
way of a reverse stock split (share consolidation) on the basis of fifteen old
common shares for one new common share. On January 25, 2012, we changed our name
to "Oculus VisionTech Inc." In June 2020, OVTZ acquired OCL Technologies Inc.
(OCL), a Delaware corporation data privacy software development startup based in
San Diego, California. As a 100% wholly-owned subsidiary of OVTZ and to better
align with customer and market focus, OCL has completed a corporate name change
to ComplyTrust® Inc. (CTI) on January 21, 2021. All OCL references throughout
this document are synonymous with the new name change, CTI.
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Our executive and corporate headquarter offices are located at Suite 507, 837
West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6C 3N6. Our
telephone number is 1-800-684-0183 and our facsimile number is 604-685-5777. Our
email address is contact@ovtz.com and our website is www.ovtz.com. Our common
shares are listed for trading on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX.V - OVT, OTCQB -
OVTZ, FSE - USF1).
BUSINESS OBJECTIVES:
In this age of digital transformation, data monetization, IoT, and massive data
migration to converged hyperscale, geo-disbursed Cloud infrastructure and
workloads, data protection and data privacy have taken center stage. GDPR, LGPD,
CCPA, and many other new international (Canada/PIPEDA, China/PIPL, India/DIA)
and upcoming US Federal (ADPPA) and individual State data privacy regulations
enable individuals and organizations the right to access and request deletion of
all personal information for a given data subject. In our ever increasing
Everything-as-a-Service world, OVTZ recognizes the need for global cloud-native
data privacy and data protection solutions that are multi-cloud platform-ready
and can augment both existing legacy and newer agile-driven architectures. OVTZ
is building modular microservices-based software solutions and services for both
hybrid on-premise and multi-cloud data management that incorporate automated
malware, privacy and ransomware scanning, reporting and visualization.
Our new Forget-Me-Yes® (FMY) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) data privacy solution
is a secure, Zero-Knowledge platform providing a single-source capability of
continuous 'right-to-be-forgotten' (RtbF) and 'right-of-erase' (RoE) privacy
compliance by incorporating automated policy-driven re-query services that
guarantees a Data Subject's requested RtbF/RoE data remains 'forgotten' over the
life of their FMY subscription. FMY incorporates hybrid encryption technology
that ensures all User Interface, data-in-transit and data-at-rest remain secure
and can only be accessed by the subscriber. With a cloud-native architecture,
the FMY functionality can be utilized as either a complete turnkey SaaS
subscription platform, or individually licensed for seamless integration with
existing 3rd. party applications and data privacy platforms.
Our new ComplyTrust® Software-as-a-Service Suite (CTSS) is a set of software
tools specifically designed to address cloud-native data management and
regulatory compliant data governance. CTSS will help to remove enterprise
organizational barriers and blockers to further enable successful cloud
migration and deployment that benefit the cloud infrastructure providers,
enterprise organizations, and users collectively. CTSS helps to automate and
visualize cloud compliance reporting across accounts, regions and services based
on a variety of user-definable and data driven metrics. Development of the first
CTSS product, a cloud-native data backup compliance reporting tool called
ComplyScan® (CS), has commenced.
OVTZ had recognized that cloud-based, digital document security/protection
products were a potentially viable business opportunity for the Company that
allowed us to apply our proprietary real-time digital video watermarking
technology, originally developed for studios and networks in the entertainment
industry, to the digital document security/protection market. Cloud-DPS secures
and protects digital documents (including text documents, photos, blueprints,
etc.) from any modification, and/or attempted forgery by imperceptibly
watermarking documents, using real-time image processing and watermarking
algorithms, embedded into a secured/protected copy of a document. This
authentication and verification process ensures the integrity of the original
digital document.
Our near-term business objectives for the above:
1. Patent and license new technology developed within the corporate research and
development program;
2. Demonstrate proof of concept on selected commercial projects with our
Forget-Me-Yes® (FMY) data privacy Software-as-a-Service platform and
ComplyTrust® SaaS Suite (CTSS), gain industry recognition for the
architectural and business differentiators of the company product's FMY data
privacy, ComplyScan® (CS) compliance validation tool and our legacy C-DPS
authentication/tamper-proof functionality, and generate sales and support
revenues in FY21+.
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CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES (AND ESTIMATES)
In preparing its consolidated financials statement, the Company follows GAAP,
which is described in Note 3, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, to the
Company's December 31, 2022 Consolidated Financial Statements included in the
Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K. The application of these principles
requires significant judgements or an estimation process that can affect the
results of operations, financial position and cash flows of the Company, as well
as the related footnote disclosures. The Company continually reviews its
accounting policies and financials information disclosures. Except as noted in
Note 3, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, of the Company's financials
statements, there have been no material changes in the Company's critical
accounting policies or estimates since December 31, 2022.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Sales
Sales for the three-month period ended March 31, 2023 and 2022 were $nil.
Cost of Sales
The cost of sales for the three-month period ended March 31, 2023 and 2022 were
$nil.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses, consisting of product marketing
expenses, consulting fees, office, professional fees and other expenses to
execute our business plan and for our day-to-day operations, increased in the
year ended December 31, 2022. We continue to develop and market C-DPS - Cloud
Document Protection System and the "Right-to-be-Forgotten" and "Right-to-Erase"
platform. Administrative expenses have decreased/increased moderately as a
result of insignificant fluctuations in general costs.
Selling, general and administrative expenses for the period ended March 31, 2023
decreased to $72,777 from $96,253 for the period ended March 31, 2022. We
incurred decreased costs during the period due to minimal corporate and filing
activities during the fiscal year.
We have arranged for additional staff and consultants to engage in marketing
activities in an effort to identify and assess appropriate market segments,
develop business arrangements with prospective partners, create awareness of new
products and services, and communicate to the industry and potential customers.
Other components of selling, general and administrative expenses did not change
significantly.
Research and Development
Research and development for the period ended March 31, 2023 decreased to
$84,203 from $345,463 for the comparable period in 2023. This was a result of
the Company's effort to reduce costs due to the minimal activity during the
period. We incurred comparable costs in 2022 as the management maintain its
decision in 2021, to develop CTSS (ComplyScan®) as well as the on-going
development of our subsidiary's Forget-Me-Yes® zero trust data privacy platform.
("Right-to-be-Forgotten" and "Right-to-Erase").
Net Losses
To date, we have not achieved profitability and expect to incur substantial
losses for the foreseeable future. Our net loss for the three months ended March
31, 2023 was $235,059, compared with a net loss of $581,364 for the comparative
period. Our total comprehensive loss for the three months ended March 31, 2023
was $236,218, compared with a comprehensive loss of $558,386, which includes
currency translation differences of $1,159.
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Liquidity and Capital Resources
At March 31, 2023 our cash and cash equivalents position was $529,692, a
decrease from $687,602 at December 31, 2022. We had a working capital of
$215,373 and an accumulated deficit of $48,030,493 at March 31, 2023.
We have historically satisfied our capital needs primarily by shareholders'
loans and issuing equity securities to our officers, directors, employees and a
small group of investors, and from short-term bridge loans from members of
management.
As of March 31, 2023, we had $529,692 in cash and cash equivalents. Management
has forecasted the Company will not have sufficient working capital to operate
for the ensuing 12 months. We will require an additional $3 million to $5
million to finance operations for the fiscal 2023 and we intend to obtain such
financing through sales of our equity securities. While the Company has been
successful in the past in obtaining financing, there can be no assurance that
the Company will be able to obtain adequate financing, or that such financing
will be on terms acceptable to the Company, to meet future operational needs
which may result in the delay, reduction, or discontinuation of ongoing
development programs.
Assuming the aforementioned $3 million to $5 million in financing is obtained,
continuing operations for the longer-term will be supported through anticipated
growth in revenues and through additional sales of our securities. Although
longer-term financing requirements may vary depending upon our sales
performance, management expects that we will require additional financing of $3
million to $5 million for fiscal 2023. We have no binding commitments or
arrangements for additional financing, and there is no assurance that management
will be able to obtain any additional financing on terms acceptable to us, if at
all.
OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS
As of March 31, 2023, we have no off-balance sheet arrangements.
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