无聊猿背后的开发公司Improbable为何能值33.6亿美元?

链茶馆Publicado a 2022-10-11Actualizado a 2022-10-11

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无聊猿母公司Yuga Labs的元宇宙空间Otherside完成了“First Trip”内测,吸引了众多玩家。

近日, 无聊猿母公司Yuga Labs的元宇宙空间Otherside完成了“First Trip”内测,吸引了众多玩家,最高纪录达4000多人同时在线,推动此次成功的推手是它们背后的开发公司Improbable。

据外媒透露,Improbable将进行1.11亿美元的融资,估值为33.6亿美元,高于2018年的28亿美元。Improbable首席执行官Herman Narula今年透露,该公司的新技术已能同时支持成千上万的玩家进行互动,未来将致力于为Yuga Labs等热门Web3公司创建一个虚拟世界。

从2015年就开始进入融资阶段到今日的成绩,Improbable为何能交出这么漂亮的成绩单?

技术起家,打造构建虚拟世界的平台

Improbable是一家来自英国的视频游戏开发公司,创立于2012年,致力于优化虚拟世界的开发技术,为全球60多家开发商提供多人游戏技术的服务。

目前主要专攻元宇宙的技术以及服务提供商,不过早在元宇宙被大量运用之前,Improbable就在虚拟世界的基础设施遥遥领先,不仅有近十年的经验积累,对游戏和娱乐生态系统及其背后的市场驱动力还有许多深度的见解。

例如Morpheus技术是Improbable早期SpatialOS产品的迭代演变,支持超过1万名玩家在线VR社交。

我们都知道仿真计算越大型、越精密,所需要的服器就会越多,对电脑运算能力要求也一并会提高,例如GTA系列的大型游戏。过去的多人在线游戏为了应对限制,只好规范服器的玩家数量,也有一种方式是把游戏空间变成不同的场域,但可能会遇到玩家无法同步的问题。

Improbable则采用了另一种技术方案——SpatialOS。为了让电脑运算能力不超出负荷,SpatialOS能立即引入额外的服务器及时分配工作。

例如Improbable推出的第一款射击游戏,在当时就展现出复杂场景极且丰富虚拟物件的世界,不仅如此,还能容纳成千上万玩家同时在线游玩。这背后技术原理简单来说,就是前面的玩家砍了一棵树,后面经过的玩家则会立即更新他们的世界。

剑桥大学计算机科学专业背景,构思出自己的虚拟模型

Improbable的创始人Herman Narula与在大学时期的同学Rob Whitehead觉得网络游戏实在太烂,便一起开始构思新的游戏模型,立志打造多样化、具有前瞻性的尖端虚拟世界。

一开始,二人没有将目光放在开发游戏上,而是设计出模拟演算数据平台SpatialOS,让游戏世界能更加逼真。

而在公司成立之后,首先他们先以突破大型多人线上游戏的空间限制开始。当时Narula想让所有玩家一同参与同一款游戏,因此也就让SpatialOS的技术为此而生。

第一个采用的游戏是Worlds Adrift,仿真度大幅提升。Narula后来回忆:“当时开发团队只有20个人,但这的确证明了我们绝对有能力协助小型开发商开发游戏。”

为了增强团队在创建和支持高质量游戏方面的专业知识,Improbable后来收购了游戏工作室Midwinter Entertainment、开发工作室The Multiplayer Guys以及用于Unix和类似Unix平台(包括Solaris,FreeBSD,HP-UX和Linux)的专有Web服务器公司zeuz。

Improbable甚至还与国防部门合作,建立国防部软件工厂Digital Foundry,已经实现了在国际军事方面的部署。今年还推出了让环境更为民主化的平台Skyral,服务英国和美国的国家安全和社区紧急服务。

这也是Improbable一直想达到的目标,就是让团队的技术能作为基础建设、城市、判断模式的应用基础,甚至运用在经济模式及政策模式之上。

虚拟游戏已不够,一步真正进入元宇宙世界

2021年,Improbable基于Midwinter Entertainment多人游戏 Scavengers,实验性游戏模式ScavLab展示了Morpheus技术,让超过4000人的游戏玩家在同一个同步的世界中。

到了11月份,1450名粉丝加入了K-pop明星AleXa的虚拟演唱会,在玩家能完全控制他们角色的情况下,自由地在舞台上跳舞,并与歌手互动,开创出新的元宇宙体验。

然后到了今年10月 , Improbable进行1.11亿美元的新一轮融资,将致力于为 Bored Ape Yacht Club的创建者Yuga Labs等热门Web3公司创建虚拟世界。

此次的主要投资者是一个用于 Web3 支付、DeFi 的区块链平台Elrond,该平台在区块链中引入了两项关键创新:它在吞吐量和执行速度方面带来了1000倍的累积提升,通过快速、高效和安全的共识机制实现了线性可扩展性。每秒超过 100,000个TPS,成本可低至忽略不计。

Elrond创始人兼首席执行官Beniamin Mincu表示,“这项投资有助于Elrond与Improbable建立更深层次的合作伙伴关系,也为我们11月初的X-Day(一场在巴黎的行业峰会)做准备,我们的目标是重新定义区块链的应用,并超越Web3的限制。

不难看出,Improbable正在将公司业务重新集中在元宇宙上——技术、内容和团队都在专注满足Web3的需求,因为有许多合作开发商、投资人都希望在这个快速扩张的领域能创建出新的元宇宙项目。

Herman Narula近期总结了他从事游戏行业十几年来所遇到的困难及经验,并且谈到了MMO/Kickstarter/web3游戏的未来潜力。他认为,如果一项技术还没有被公开证明可以被应用在真实世界,且获得高仿真的体验,那就别想了。而如何在Web2与web3做到灵活跳转,则成为Improbable的新目标。

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