Herman Narula, CEO of Improbable
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Improbable’s new software brings huge games and VR simulations to life via the cloud

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British tech startup Improbable is unveiling its SpatialOS software today that will enable even small companies to create massive, cloud-based simulations for online games, mobile devices, and virtual reality projects.

SpatialOS creates a distributed computing environment that allows games to access the back-end infrastructure needed to create impossibly complex systems, like the simulation of an entire city, said Herman Narula, chief executive of Improbable, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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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.