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.
Standard webhooks for Photon Fusion and Quantum are now free in both Public and Premium Cloud, covering session validation, player join/leave logging, remote replay capture, and match-result reporting to external backends.
Photon's AWE 2024 demos use Fusion networking to sync virtual sticky notes and 3D drawings across Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro, supporting both remote cross-platform collaboration and same-room colocalized sessions.
Double Stallion built the co-op extraction ARPG Surfpunk on Photon Quantum, whose deterministic rollback and built-in physics held up smoothly even in a GDC hallway demo running over a phone's cellular hotspot.
XR Hack brought 520+ hackers across Stockholm, Istanbul, London, and Cologne together for 48 hours, building 120+ apps including 20 multiplayer prototypes on Photon Fusion, with several now live on the Meta Horizon store.
BitCake Studio, a decade-long Photon partner, built the roguelike shooter Atomic Picnic on Fusion, syncing four players against 100 enemies and testing playability across an 800ms-ping connection from Korea to Brazil.
A decade after Photon TrueSync's first attempt at deterministic multiplayer, Photon Quantum 3 is now Unity Verified, offering input/physics rollback, deterministic ECS, and a free tier up to 100 concurrent users.
Fusion Starter packages three Unity multiplayer samples on Photon Fusion: a third-person controller using Simple KCC, a coin-collecting platformer with RPC nameplates, and a shooter using Fusion's Lag Compensation.
Photon Fusion's Area of Interest sample demonstrates bandwidth-saving AoI alongside Multi-Peer Mode, letting developers spin up multiple test clients, or host multiple game sessions, from a single Unity instance.
Photon raised its free tier from 20 to 100 concurrent users for both Fusion and Quantum apps, covering development and soft launch, activated in one click from the Photon Dashboard on one app per studio.