Herman Narula: How Improbable Put 4,500 Bored Apes In The Same Metaverse Space

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Yuga Labs has created one of the most popular new NFT brands in the form of The Bored Ape Yacht Club, and recently showed off a beta vision of a gaming metaverse it plans to create.

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Dubbed Otherside, the metaverse demo was made possible by Improbable, a Cambridge, England-based company that has been experimenting with technology to create massive game worlds for years.

In Otherside's First Trip demo, Yuga and Improbable were able to bring together 4,500 players at once in a 3D world. What was remarkable about this was that players got full physical effects for their characters, and they could talk to each other using 3D audio and hear all players at once.

This demo is the kind of thing that makes some people think there's a future in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which use blockchain to authenticate digital items like Bored Ape characters.< /p> Event

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There are plenty of skeptics, and Herman Narula, CEO of Improbable, has battled them for years. Improbable's grand promises of massive worlds haven't come true. The company tried to acquire its own game studio (Midwinter) and tried to launch its own battle royale game, Scavengers, but the game failed and Improbable sold the game studio to Behavior Interactive.

Now Narula claims that the new version of the company's operating system is ready and powering Otherside, and people can just watch it to see that Improbable can now do what it promised .

Narula is also working on his own metaverse book, dubbed Virtual Society, about what he envisions for the universe of virtual worlds in the future. We expect Narula to speak at our GamesBeat Summit Next 2022 event on October 25-26 in San Francisco.

I talked to Narula about it and listened to him talk about the video of the event as we watched it.

Here is an edited transcript of our interview.