Improbable (company)
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| Type of business | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 15 April 2012[1] |
| Headquarters | 30 Farringdon Road, London, EC1M 3HE, UK[2] |
| Founder(s) | Herman Narula, Peter Lipka, Rob Whitehead.[3] |
| Industry | Cloud computing Information technology Video games |
| Employees | 170+[4] |
| Parent | Independent |
| URL | improbable.io |
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Improbable Worlds Limited (commonly referred to as Improbable) is a British multinational technology company founded in 2012, and headquartered in London, England. It makes distributed simulation software for video games and corporate use.[2]
The company has created SpatialOS, a computation platform that enables the creation of massive simulations and virtual worlds for use in video games and corporate simulations. The firm partnered with Google in December, 2016.[5] The software was released into open beta in February, 2017.[6]
The company received an investment of $500 million from SoftBank in May, 2017.[7] The first games built on the technology are Worlds Adrift by Bossa Studios and Lazarus by Spilt Milk Studio[8].
Its founder, Herman Narula, is the son of Harpinder Singh Narula.[9] The company was founded in 2012 and run by Narula and his colleagues from his parents' Hertfordshire house, Hyver Hall, through the end of 2013.[10]
List of games[11]
- Worlds Adrift (2017, for Microsoft Windows)
- Mavericks: Proving Grounds (2018, for Microsoft Windows)
- Scavengers (TBA, for Microsoft Windows)
- Seed (TBA, for Microsoft Windows)
- Lazarus (2018, for Microsoft Windows)
References
- ^ "Improbable - Crunchbase". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
- ^ a b "Improbable Website".
- ^ "The Leap 100" (PDF). City A.M. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
- ^ "Big Bang Theory", Edge, p. 10, 27 April 2017, retrieved 8 May 2017
- ^ "Google's Improbable Deal to Recreate the Real World in VR". Wired. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
- ^ "SpatialOS platform for building games of 'unprecedented size' gets open beta". VentureBeat. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
- ^ "Improbable sums? Cambridge graduates' tech firm raises $500m". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- ^ "Lazarus, Official Site". Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- ^ "Meet Improbable, The Startup Building The World's Most Powerful Simulations". Forbes.com. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
- ^ Solon, Olivia (29 May 2014). "The Improbable dream to radically transform online gaming | WIRED UK". Wired.co.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
- ^ "Games made with SpatialOS". Improbable.io. Retrieved 12 August 2018.