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Private |
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Founded | 15 April 2012 |
Headquarters | 30 Farringdon Road, London, EC1M 3HE, UK |
Founder(s) | Herman Narula, Peter Lipka, Rob Whitehead. |
Industry | Information Technology |
Employees | 170+ |
Parent | Independent |
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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.
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. The software was released into open beta in February, 2017.
The company received an investment of $500 million from SoftBank in May, 2017. The first games built on the technology are Worlds Adrift by Bossa Studios and Lazarus by Spilt Milk Studio.
Its founder, Herman Narula, is the son of Harpinder Singh Narula. 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.