British company Improbable, which specializes in software development for simulation of virtual worlds, recently received a grant of $ 502 million from the Japanese corporation SoftBank. This event would have gone unnoticed, if not for one thing: this money was allocated for the creation of "the most accurate three-dimensional model of the real world." Simply put, to create a kind of analogue of the Matrix from the famous movie of the brothers, and now sisters, Wachowski.
Improbable was founded in 2012 by University of Cambridge alumni Herman Narula and Rob Whitehead. Now Improbable technologies are already used in video games, but the "Matrix from the British" will be used by government and industrial organizations to conduct various experiments and developments in the field of virtual reality.
The product under development is called SpatialOS. This system is extremely flexible and scalable, it can be run both on the basis of a separate server and within the framework of huge cluster computing systems. According to representatives of the developer company, “We are already working on some projects with telecommunications companies, government and industrial organizations. These projects create detailed models of virtual worlds that use real-world data. The entire virtual environment is as close as possible to the real world. The new model will make it possible to produce more complex and complex modeling of interrelated aspects of the existence of human civilization: transport infrastructure, telecommunication networks and much more."
VLADIMIR KUZNETSOV