https://blog.photonengine.com Photon Engine: Multiplayer Made Simple Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:01:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://blog.photonengine.com/wp-content/uploads/favicon-150x150.png https://blog.photonengine.com 32 32 https://blog.photonengine.com/photon-meta-connect-2026-recap-vr-glasses-ray-ban/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:57:55 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=8826 From Meta Connect 2026: Photon's take on the VR Glasses' comfort-versus-FOV trade-off, why hand tracking now needs to be the default, and how Photon's Video and Voice SDKs already stream from Ray-Ban smart glasses.]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/900lbs-royal-caribbean-safety-command-center-photon/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:34:32 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7366 900lbs used Photon and Unity to build a real-time Safety Command Center for Royal Caribbean, deployed on 10 ships, syncing deck maps, annotations, overlays, and checklists across bridge and shipboard devices.]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/building-a-seamless-mmo-backend-across-machines/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:23:21 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7372 Photon CTO Christof Wegmann breaks down 7 years of building a distributed, server-authoritative MMO backend in Go, where players cross machine boundaries with no loading screens, no portals, and no visible seams.]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/fusion-2-1-stable-release/ Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:16:06 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7342 Fusion 2.1 Stable is out for Unity, with Forecast Physics for lower-cost networked physics, Object Priority for bandwidth control, configurable Shared Mode tickrates, Input Delay, Large Data RPCs, and reconnect improvements.]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/bandit-trap-photon-quantum-physics-multiplayer/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:13:20 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7318 See how Picomy, a small indie team, used Photon Quantum to build Bandit Trap's asymmetric 3v1 multiplayer, including destructible rooms, deterministic replays, and cross-platform consistency without desync.]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/epiroc-flowtropolis-photon-industrial-xr-platform/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:57:07 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7242 Epiroc partnered with Flowtropolis and Photon to launch the Boomer M20 in VR during a travel freeze, then scaled that platform into training, design reviews, and global collaboration across Meta Quest, desktop, and web.]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/roadside-research-photon-fusion-co-op-multiplayer/ Tue, 19 May 2026 06:36:31 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7260 Cybernetic Walrus built Roadside Research's 4-player co-op with Photon Fusion, syncing physics, host-authoritative AI, user-generated masks, and a 330K-copy launch without touching matchmaking or room capacity.]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/scaling-surgical-training-with-xr-and-ai-a-new-standard-for-global-healthcare-education/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:17:20 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7226 Fundamental XR combines XR and AI with Photon's real-time networking to deliver hardware-agnostic surgical training, with sessions logged across 30+ countries and dashboards tracking outcomes at scale.]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/dino-party-multiplayer-development/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:14:37 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7206 Studio Nachtwerk rebuilt Dino Party from a local student prototype into online multiplayer with Photon Fusion, using Forecast Physics, input delay, and minimal-bandwidth state sync for destructible arenas.]]> https://blog.photonengine.com/super-bear-adventure-200m-downloads-multiplayer-photon/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:47:55 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7142 A solo Unity developer grew Super Bear Adventure to 200M downloads, then added cross-platform multiplayer with Photon PUN2 across mobile and Switch, doubling monthly revenue without a dedicated server.]]>