PreviewLabs helps studios make game prototypes quickly

venturebeat.com:

PreviewLabs has built a business helping game companies and other startups build their prototypes quickly.

And the company is announcing today that its rapid prototyping tools helped Squido Studio raised $1.1 million for its upcoming virtual reality project. The company said that’s a testament to rapid prototyping technology, which is sometimes something companies handle all by themselves.

Squido Studio raised money from the Canada Media Fund.

For over a decade, PreviewLabs has been at the forefront of offering a convenient work-for-hire prototype development service, catering to game developers, startups, research institutions, and R&D departments worldwide.

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The company’s prototypes serve as essential tools for evaluating, improving, and pitching concepts spanning virtual reality, augmented reality, console, computer, and mobile games.

Squido Studio teamed up with PreviewLabs to delve into the intricacies of its upcoming physics-based VR multiplayer game. A hallmark feature of the game is the ability for players to spectate ongoing gameplay sessions while waiting for their turn, assuming the role of giants looking down on the action.

Once inside the game, PreviewLabs’ work empowers players to collaboratively manipulate virtual objects of various sizes and weights, delivering a tactile sense of these objects’ weight as they lower them towards the virtual floor. All this occurs within a seamlessly immersive multiplayer environment.

Bernard François, the founder and CEO of PreviewLabs, said in a statement,