Bored Apes owner Yuga Labs launches 2nd Trip Otherside metaverse experience
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Bored Ape Yacht Club parent company Yuga Labs launched its Second Trip for its Otherside universe today as a new “metaverse” experience.
The company launched the experience with many thousands of simultaneous users, all interacting in real time, according to Herman Narula, CEO of Improbable, the tech partner for the project. Yuga Labs is among the contenders trying to create an experience in metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One.
The Second Trip builds on last summer’s First Trip, where Yuga Labs and Improbable were able to squish 4,500 people into the same real-time 3D world with 3D audio using software from Cambridge, England-based Improbable, which has been experimenting with tech to build massive gaming worlds for years.
Back then, the tech showed that players enjoyed full physics effects for their characters, and they could speak with each other in small groups using 3D audio, or hear all the players at once. I participated in the Second Trip today and it was a similar experience, but seemingly with far more people. Narula didn’t say how many people participated today, but suffice to say it was a record number. Earlier, the companies said that the experience would hold 10,000 people.
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“We have a lot more capacity than the last time and I expect it could break the record,” Narula said.
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