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Bored Apes founders on their plans for Otherside metaverse
After seemingly pulling off the strangest unicorn success story in tech, the founders of NFT project Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) have an awful lot to prove with their startup Yuga‘s early beta v
If socializing within games is so popular, why hasn’t the multiverse arrived yet?
Thus far in this series we’ve outlined “multiverse” virtual worlds — a concept different from the metaverse — as the next stage of social media and what this future will look lik
Improbable urges Unity to unsuspend their license, rectify ‘farcical’ situation for developers
Improbable may be pissed at Unity, but they still want them back. In a blog post titled “A final statement on SpatialOS and Unity,” the team at the cloud gaming startup aimed to tell their
Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund to help devs move to ‘more open engines’ after Unity debacle
Improbable is taking a daring step after announcing earlier today that Unity had revoked its license to operate on the popular game development engine. The U.K.-based cloud gaming startup has inked a
Unity pulls nuclear option on cloud gaming startup Improbable, terminating game engine license
A pair of highly-funded gaming unicorns are publicly skirmishing and the deal could have major repercussions for game developers. Today, UK-based cloud gaming startup Improbable, announced that Unity,
Improbable brings its massive multiplayer platform to Unity game engine
As battle royale games like Fortnite pit more players against each other, studios are starting to realize the potential of bringing a massive online audience together at one time. This ambition has al
Klang gets $8.95M for an MMO sim sitting atop Improbable’s dev platform
Berlin-based games studio Klang, which is building a massive multiplayer online simulation called Seed utilizing Improbable’s virtual world builder platform, has just bagged $8.95M in Series A f
AR/VR startups raised $3 billion last year led by a few industry juggernauts
Tech companies working with augmented reality and virtual reality technologies raised more than $3 billion in venture funding in 2017. This data comes from analytics firm Digi-Capital and suggests t
Europe’s VR landscape continues to grow rapidly despite market slowdown
Last November I covered how Europe’s VR meetup community has more than doubled in its member base of freelancers, startups and companies. The region continues to grow.
Experience the future of reality simulations at Disrupt SF 2017 with Unity and Improbable
Video games have never been just games, but as developers grow their ambitions, thanks to evolving, powerful game development tools, the line between real life and simulation has been growing much mur
Improbable grabs $502M led by Softbank at a $1B+ valuation for its virtual world Spatial OS
Improbable, the London startup that has developed a platform for third parties to build vast virtual and simulated worlds, has landed a stratospheric round of funding to double down on its product and
How SoftBank became tech’s phantom buyer
SoftBank is making quite a name for itself, but in ways it might not expect. Hardly a week has passed in 2017 when a headline hasn't reported that SoftBank -- the multinational conglomerate currently
Improbable teams with Google, opens SpatialOS alpha for virtual world development
Improbable, the London startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz that has been developing a platform for third parties to build virtual and simulated worlds, is today launching the alpha of its first p
Improbable Launches Spatial OS, An Operating System For Next-Level Data Simulation
It's been hard to define exactly what Improbable, the London-based company that raised $20 million from Andreessen Horowitz in March, does up until now, but its vision is clearer after it announced Sp
Improbable Lands $20M From Andreessen Horowitz For Distributed Simulation Tech
Improbable, a London-based company that provides the backend plumbing to make large-scale virtual reality possible, has landed a $20 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz.