Remember the Sprockit-sponsored start-up section at NAB 2019? Three years later, it is a distant memory, with NAB 2022’s new West Hall promoting opulence over innovation. Start-ups were therefore few and far between at the event, with chance encounters at social events your best bet for brushing shoulders with new faces, new ideas, and new money. Funnily enough, perceptual quality analysis specialist SSIMWave was one of the companies cherrypicked for the Sprockit Innovation Pipeline at the last NAB show, before Covid struck, but now finds itself with its own mid-sized stand at the posh end of the exhibit, not far from the perpetually packed AWS arena that swallowed neighboring exhibitors whole. We caught up with Chief Revenue Officer Carlos Hernandez…