Dean Takahashi and Herman Narula of Improbable at GamesBeat Summit Next 2022.
Dean Takahashi and Herman Narula of Improbable at GamesBeat Summit Next 2022.
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Why Improbable’s Herman Narula believes virtual society will foster transhumanism

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Herman Narula, CEO of Improbable, wrote a book about the metaverse dubbed Virtual Society. And he thinks that one day, someone without a body will read it. He predicts that will be possible as the metaverse comes along and makes transhumanism possible.

That’s one of the things we talked about at our fireside chat at the GamesBeat Summit Next 2022 event. Narula’s company is making software that can help make the real-time metaverse possible. It is being used, for instance, to create Yuga Labs’ OtherSide metaverse game, which can pack more than 4,500 people into the same virtual space with real-time physics, 3D audio, and synchronous movement.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.