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• June 28, 2018

  Epic Announces $1M in Developer Grants. Scene Fusion Included!

  Epic Games recognized KinematicSoup as a winner of developer grants, supporting Scene Fusion's development including a new C++ core that can power any engine.

• August 17, 2017

  Data Compression: Crushing Data Using Entropy

  How arithmetic coding compresses data into fractional bits using entropy — and why accurate probability predictions are everything.

• August 1, 2017

  We Powered Unity at SIGGRAPH VR Village 2017

  Scene Fusion powered Unity's live EditorVR demo at SIGGRAPH VR Village 2017 — real-time collaboration in VR on a live production system.

• July 10, 2017

  Scene Fusion + EditorVR Featured at Unity Europe 2017!

  Scene Fusion was featured in Unity's presentation at Unite Europe 2017, highlighting how EditorVR and real-time collaboration work together.

• June 27, 2017

  KinematicSoup and ProCore3D join together to massively accelerate level creation!

  Scene Fusion now supports ProBuilder3D, combining real-time collaboration with powerful in-engine geometry creation for the fastest level creation workflow available.

• May 30, 2017

  Client-side Prediction for Smooth Multiplayer Gameplay

  How to implement client-side prediction and smoothing for responsive server-authoritative multiplayer games, with the algorithm we used in kazap.io.

• March 13, 2017

  KinematicSoup Technologies Launches VR Support for Scene Fusion

  Scene Fusion now officially supports EditorVR, giving VR game developers real-time collaborative scene editing inside Unity's experimental VR editor.

• January 15, 2017

  How to Effectively Collaborate with Your Team in Unity

  A practical guide to Unity team collaboration — source control, digital asset management, and why real-time multi-user scene editing changes everything.

• November 10, 2016

  Game Development Workflow Part 2: Production and Post-Production

  How production teams shift from prototyping to shipping — world building, testing, and the bottlenecks that slow down content creation.

• November 1, 2016

  KinematicSoup Technologies Launches Scene Fusion

  Scene Fusion officially launches after an open beta since March 2016 — real-time multi-user scene collaboration for Unity developers.

• October 26, 2016

  Game Development Workflow

  A practical introduction to game development workflows — from design and prototyping to the vertical slice — and how to structure your team's pipeline.

• September 6, 2016

  Data Compression: Bit-Packing 101

  The simplest data compression technique explained: bit-packing. How to minimize the bits needed to store each value and reduce data size by 30%+ with a few lines of C#.

• August 9, 2016

  Timesteps and Achieving Smooth Motion in Unity

  Why objects stutter in Unity and how to fix it — the relationship between Update and FixedUpdate, and how interpolation eliminates jitter.

• July 22, 2016

  An Alternative to Scene Merging

  Why traditional Unity scene merging is painful — conflicts, lost work, and limited collaboration — and how real-time multi-user editing solves all three.

• June 15, 2016

  Gamma and Linear Space - What They Are and How They Differ

  Linear space lighting explained for game developers — what gamma correction is, why it matters for physically based rendering, and how to configure it in Unity.

• June 8, 2016

  Using the Command Line Toolset to Run Unity Tests

  How to use Unity's command line toolset to automate builds and unit tests — including custom method invocation and headless Linux setup with xvfb.

• May 6, 2016

  Unity Development Tools that Help Create Games Faster

  A roundup of Unity Asset Store tools across visual scripting, world creation, and audio that help studios reduce development time and ship faster.

• April 26, 2016

  KinematicSoup is named a Top 25 Up and Coming company

  KinematicSoup has been named a Top 25 Up and Coming company in the annual Branham300 listing of tech companies in Canada.

• April 26, 2016

  Scene Fusion Interview with 80.lv

  KinematicSoup was interviewed by 80.lv about Scene Fusion's real-time collaboration capabilities for Unity developers.

• April 22, 2016

  Basic Level Creation Workflow with Scene Fusion

  A walkthrough of the basic Scene Fusion workflow — hosting a session, collaborating in real-time, and committing back to source control.

• April 21, 2016

  Getting Started with Scene Fusion

  A step-by-step guide to setting up Scene Fusion and starting your first collaborative Unity session in about two minutes.

• April 19, 2016

  Scene Fusion - Collaborative Unity Scene Editing

  An introduction to Scene Fusion — real-time collaborative Unity scene editing that reduces world building times and lets teams work together from anywhere.

• April 12, 2016

  Using Scene Fusion Unity 3D Scene Collaboration Tool with Perforce - Tutorial

  A step-by-step tutorial for using Scene Fusion alongside Perforce — check out, collaborate in real-time, and submit your scene when done.

• April 6, 2016

  Tools are Changing the Landscape of Game Development

  How modern tools are enabling smaller studios to compete — and why speed to market and operational efficiency are now as important as the game itself.

• March 17, 2016

  KinematicSoup Announces the Expansion of their Multi-User Unity Scene Collaboration Tool Beta

  Scene Fusion's beta expands globally — KinematicSoup opens their real-time multi-user Unity scene collaboration platform to game studios worldwide.