https://dev-blog.photonengine.com Photon Engine: Multiplayer Made Simple Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:15:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://dev-blog.photonengine.com/wp-content/uploads/favicon-150x150.png https://dev-blog.photonengine.com 32 32 https://dev-blog.photonengine.com/900lbs-royal-caribbean-safety-command-center-photon/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:34:32 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7366 900lbs used Photon and Unity to build a real-time Safety Command Center for Royal Caribbean, deployed on 10 ships, syncing deck maps, annotations, overlays, and checklists across bridge and shipboard devices.]]> https://dev-blog.photonengine.com/building-a-seamless-mmo-backend-across-machines/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:23:21 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7372 Photon CTO Christof Wegmann breaks down 7 years of building a distributed, server-authoritative MMO backend in Go, where players cross machine boundaries with no loading screens, no portals, and no visible seams.]]> https://dev-blog.photonengine.com/fusion-2-1-stable-release/ Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:16:06 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7342 Fusion 2.1 Stable is out for Unity, with Forecast Physics for lower-cost networked physics, Object Priority for bandwidth control, configurable Shared Mode tickrates, Input Delay, Large Data RPCs, and reconnect improvements.]]> https://dev-blog.photonengine.com/roadside-research-photon-fusion-co-op-multiplayer/ Tue, 19 May 2026 06:36:31 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7260 Cybernetic Walrus built Roadside Research's 4-player co-op with Photon Fusion, syncing physics, host-authoritative AI, user-generated masks, and a 330K-copy launch without touching matchmaking or room capacity.]]> https://dev-blog.photonengine.com/scaling-surgical-training-with-xr-and-ai-a-new-standard-for-global-healthcare-education/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:17:20 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7226 Fundamental XR combines XR and AI with Photon's real-time networking to deliver hardware-agnostic surgical training, with sessions logged across 30+ countries and dashboards tracking outcomes at scale.]]> https://dev-blog.photonengine.com/dino-party-multiplayer-development/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:14:37 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7206 Studio Nachtwerk rebuilt Dino Party from a local student prototype into online multiplayer with Photon Fusion, using Forecast Physics, input delay, and minimal-bandwidth state sync for destructible arenas.]]> https://dev-blog.photonengine.com/super-bear-adventure-200m-downloads-multiplayer-photon/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:47:55 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7142 A solo Unity developer grew Super Bear Adventure to 200M downloads, then added cross-platform multiplayer with Photon PUN2 across mobile and Switch, doubling monthly revenue without a dedicated server.]]> https://dev-blog.photonengine.com/photon-metaplay-multiplayer-live-service-games/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:31:30 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7166 Photon and Metaplay released a free 36-page whitepaper on building multiplayer live service games in 2026, covering networking models, LiveOps and progression systems, and case studies from Future Run and Antihero Studios.]]> https://dev-blog.photonengine.com/toyota-material-handling-vr-training-case-study/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:21:23 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7084 See how Toyota Material Handling uses VR Vision's multiplayer VR training, built on Photon PUN and Fusion, to teach parts identification and troubleshooting to technicians across 300+ dealerships on Meta Quest.]]> https://dev-blog.photonengine.com/how-synergyxr-is-transforming-enterprise-training-with-no-code-xr-and-real-time-collaboration/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:05:38 +0000 https://blog.photonengine.com/?p=7057 SynergyXR's no-code XR training platform, used by Bosch, Vestas, and Novo Nordisk in 70+ countries, runs on Photon Enterprise Cloud for low-latency, multi-device real-time collaboration across VR, AR, and desktop.]]>