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.
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.
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.
See how Picomy, a small indie team, used Photon Quantum to build Bandit Trap's asymmetric 3v1 multiplayer, including destructible rooms, deterministic replays, and cross-platform consistency without desync.
Epiroc partnered with Flowtropolis and Photon to launch the Boomer M20 in VR during a travel freeze, then scaled that platform into training, design reviews, and global collaboration across Meta Quest, desktop, and web.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.