Croquet OS

LF Edge Project Portfolio Expands Footprint with Two new Community Projects Addressing Different Layers of the Stack, Nexoedge and NanoMQ

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

NanoMQ is an ultra-lightweight and blazing-fast Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) broker for IoT Edge.

Key Points: 
  • NanoMQ is an ultra-lightweight and blazing-fast Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) broker for IoT Edge.
  • It helps users unify critical data in motion and data in use between Edge and Cloud in an efficient manner.
  • "LF Edge continues to grow across the ecosystem, and we are thrilled to welcome Nexoedge and NanoMQ to the project fold," said Arpit Jopshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge and IoT, the Linux Foundation.
  • The Nexoedge team will explore integration opportunities across LF Edge projects by offering the critical edge storage component.

Croquet And Vention Partner to Create Immersive Multiplayer Experiences for Companies Across Industries

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Monday, June 5, 2023

LOS ANGELES, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Croquet Corporation and Vention announced today a development partnership where Vention, providing access to over 3,000 engineers across 20+ offices worldwide, will utilize the Croquet Multiplayer Platform for Web and Gaming and its transformational new Synchronized Computation Architecture to deliver Metaverse projects for clients across multiple industries, helping brands create multiplayer experiences.

Key Points: 
  • Vention developers are trained to build multiplayer experiences for the Web, Web3 and the Metaverse with Croquet developer tools and infrastructure.
  • "Our partnership with Croquet lets us rapidly scale Vention's Metaverse offerings to our global clients and enlarge Vention's Metaverse footprint," said Dave Hecker, West Coast CTO at Vention.
  • "The web is the Metaverse and it will rapidly become multiuser and immersive," said David A. Smith, founder and CTO of Croquet.
  • We are thrilled to have Vention as a premier member of the Croquet Development Partner Program."

LAMINA1 Selects Croquet as Key Partner for Open Metaverse Development

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Friday, June 2, 2023

LOS ANGELES, June 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Croquet Corporation, provider of Croquet OS, the Multiplayer Platform for Web and Gaming, and LAMINA1, a blockchain optimized for the Open Metaverse, announced today a development partnership where Croquet will make its platform available to LAMINA1 creators and build upon L1's newly released Metaverse-as-a-Service offering.

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  • Croquet joins the LAMINA1 Early Access Program to begin pre-building on the LAMINA1 platform, making the Croquet Multiplayer Platform available to thousands of open metaverse creators
    LOS ANGELES, June 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Croquet Corporation , provider of Croquet OS, the Multiplayer Platform for Web and Gaming, and LAMINA1 , a blockchain optimized for the Open Metaverse, announced today a development partnership where Croquet will make its platform available to LAMINA1 creators and build upon L1's newly released Metaverse-as-a-Service offering.
  • "This isn't just an exciting time for Croquet, but also for the advancement of the Open Metaverse," said John Payne, CEO of Croquet.
  • "While closed, walled garden Metaverse efforts have stumbled, the Open Metaverse is growing rapidly, and the combination of Croquet's innate multiplayer capabilities combined with LAMINA1's blockchain-optimized, flexible framework will empower the global community of Open Metaverse creators to create vibrant, powerful, useful and connected worlds like never before.
  • The LAMINA1 Early Access Program opens up Croquet OS to an active community of thousands of Open Metaverse creators and experiences.

Croquet.io Founder and CTO to Speak at AWE 2023

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Monday, May 22, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Croquet.io has launched Croquet OS, the multiplayer platform for the web and gaming. The Founder and CTO of Croquet.io, David Smith, will be speaking on a panel at AWE 2023 about Augmented Ecologies and why we need to empower people to create, manage and participate in them.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Croquet.io has launched Croquet OS, the multiplayer platform for the web and gaming.
  • The Founder and CTO of Croquet.io, David Smith, will be speaking on a panel at AWE 2023 about Augmented Ecologies and why we need to empower people to create, manage and participate in them.
  • The grand challenge of the 21st Century is to create socially and ethically adept hybrid networks of humans and machines.
  • WHO: David A. Smith is the Founder and CTO of Croquet and a member of its Board of Directors.

CROQUET FOR UNITY SET TO TRANSFORM MULTIPLAYER GAME DEVELOPMENT WITH "NO NETCODE" SOLUTION

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Friday, March 17, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, March 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- (Game Developers Conference) Croquet Corporation, provider of Croquet OS, the Multiplayer Platform for Web and Gaming, announced today Croquet for Unity, a JavaScript multiplayer framework for the Unity Platform that provides developers a transformational new way to build and operate innately multiplayer Unity experiences without writing and maintaining multiplayer code or deploying servers. It gives Unity developers access to Croquet and its unique Croquet Multiplayer Network global infrastructure. Croquet for Unity will be demonstrated in conjunction with the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and will be available for early access Beta in April 2023.

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  • It gives Unity developers access to Croquet and its unique Croquet Multiplayer Network global infrastructure.
  • In addition to reducing costs and complexity of multiplayer development, Croquet also delivers shared, multiplayer simulations that have heretofore been impossible.
  • Croquet also enables multiplayer Unity development in JavaScript, opening up development to a large pool of new developers.
  • It requires a gaming or enterprise subscription and developer API key from Croquet for access to its global Croquet Multiplayer Network.

CROQUET WINS WEBXR PLATFORM OF THE YEAR AT THE THIRD POLYS WEBXR AWARDS

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

LOS ANGELES, March 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Croquet Corporation , provider of Croquet OS, the Multiplayer Platform for Web and Gaming, has been named the WebXR Platform of the Year at the third Polys WebXR Awards broadcast live from ZeroSpace.

Key Points: 
  • LOS ANGELES, March 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Croquet Corporation , provider of Croquet OS, the Multiplayer Platform for Web and Gaming, has been named the WebXR Platform of the Year at the third Polys WebXR Awards broadcast live from ZeroSpace.
  • The annual Polys WebXR Awards celebrates the best WebXR experiences and platforms as well as the most dedicated creators and tools that make them possible.
  • "Our team is beyond thrilled to have been selected as the WebXR Platform of the Year," said Vanessa Freudenberg, Chief Architect and Co-Founder at Croquet.
  • On top of Croquet OS we built our open-source Microverse platform which supports immersive viewers in WebXR.

First Metaverse Plugin for WordPress Developers Deploys Multiuser Immersive Worlds into Websites and Blogs in Minutes

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Croquet Corporation, provider of Croquet OS, the Operating System for the Open Metaverse, announced today the first WordPress Plugin that allows developers to deploy 3D immersive, multiuser Metaverse worlds in any WordPress website or blog. Croquet Metaverse Web Showcase is free, no-code, easy to use and gives anyone using WordPress a quick and easy way to engage customers and visitors in a fully immersive, multiuser, social 3D world in less than five minutes. Web Showcase launched in December 2022 and quickly rose to the #1 spot on Product Hunt, the leading technology review forum.

Key Points: 
  • New Croquet Plugin Deploys Multiuser, Social, 3D Metaverse Worlds in Any WordPress Site with Collaborative Browsing and Spatial Audio Conversations among Site Visitors
    LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Croquet Corporation , provider of Croquet OS, the Operating System for the Open Metaverse, announced today the first WordPress Plugin that allows developers to deploy 3D immersive, multiuser Metaverse worlds in any WordPress website or blog.
  • Croquet Metaverse Web Showcase is free, no-code, easy to use and gives anyone using WordPress a quick and easy way to engage customers and visitors in a fully immersive, multiuser, social 3D world in less than five minutes.
  • "The web is the Metaverse and it will rapidly become multiuser and immersive," said David A. Smith, founder and CTO of Croquet.
  • Microverse developers can use WordPress Plugins to distribute customized worlds, experiences, games and other activations they create with World Builder to hundreds of millions of websites and blogs.