interactive entertainment headquarters san francisco california usa 1 products unity game engine services unity certification unity collaborate unity asset store unity ads unity cloud build unity analytics unity everyplay unity multiplayer unity performance reporting 2 number of employees 1000 2016 3 website see tfm unity3d.com unity technologies sf is the developer of unity one of the most popular licensed game engines . contents 1 history 2 reception 3 references 4 external links history edit unity technologies was founded in 2004 by david helgason ceo nicholas francis cco and joachim ante cto in copenhagen denmark after their first game gooball failed to gain success . the three recognized the value in engine and tools development and set out to create an engine developed in house that any and all could use for an affordable price . unity technologies has received funding from the likes of sequoia capital westsummit capital and iglobe partners . 4 the company s focus is to democratize game development and make development of 2d and 3d interactive content as accessible as possible to as many people around the world as possible . 4 in 2008 with the rise of the iphone unity was one of the first engine developers to begin supporting the platform in full . unity now supports 24 platforms including oculus rift playstation 4 and linux . 5 in 2010 ibm started exploring unity 3d based browser plug ins as a way to access 3d virtual worlds from within a web browser . in april 2012 unity reportedly had 1 million registered developers 300 000 of which used unity on a regular monthly basis . 6 in april 2015 the number of reported registered developers reached 4 5 million with 1 million monthly active users . 7 47 % of all mobile game developers use unity . 8 on 10 november 2010 the unity asset store launched as an online marketplace for unity users to sell project assets artwork code systems audio etc. to each other . 9 by april 2014 it had 600 000 registered users who downloaded about 500 000 assets per month . according to some estimates this has saved game developers about 1 billion in the previous year . 10 unity acquired applifier a mobile service provider in march 2014 . applifier s everyplay the game replay sharing and community service became unity everyplay . the acquisition also meant that applifier s mobile video ad network gameads became unity ads . unity ceo david helgason pitched the acquisition as a part of the company s drive to deliver tools that can make the community more successful and arm developers with an authentic way to connect with passionate gamers . 11 two more acquisitions followed later in 2014 playnomics a data analysis platform for developers now unity analytics and tsugi who has been working on a continuous integration service now known as unity cloud build . 12 13 in october 2014 helgason announced in a blog post that he would be stepping down as ceo with john riccitiello ea s former ceo replacing him . helgason will remain in the company as executive vice president . 14 15 unity acquired silkcloud a shanghai based ecommerce developer in august 2015 . silkcloud is working on infrastructure for unity s web based services . 16 unity held vision summit 2016 in february 2016 a vr ar conference with the intent of furthering the knowledge base of anyone developing virtual and or augmented reality content . 17 at the event unity announced its partnership with steam vr and google cardboard . the company s vr ar division unity labs 18 was also announced alongside the in vr scene editor . at gdc 16 unity announced two new product lines unity certification to facilitate developers in demonstrating their skill and knowledge within unity ; and unity collaborate which allows multiple people to access the same unity project remotely . 19 reception edit in 2012 venturebeat wrote few companies have contributed as much to the flowing of independently produced games as unity technologies . the maker of a 3d graphics game development platform unity 3d got its start in copenhagen and now it is based in san francisco . more than 1.3 million developers are using its tools to create gee whiz graphics in their ios android console pc and web based games . nintendo s new wii u console will support games built with unity as will the upcoming ouya android based game console . the pattern here unity wants to be the engine for multiplatform games period . 20 references edit unity fast facts . unity technologies . retrieved 5 february 2013 . unity services . unity technologies . retrieved 4 august 2015 . unite europe 2016 closing remarks a fireside chat with david helgason . unity technologies . retrieved 17 june 2016 . a b unity technologies lands 12 million in series b funding led by westsummit capital and iglobe partners . unity multiplatform . unity technologies . retrieved 14 august 2015 . unity technologies marks one million developers for its game development tools . polygon . unity company facts . unity technologies . retrieved 12 august 2015 . developer economics q3 2014 state of the developer nation . vision mobile . retrieved 13 august 2015 . unite 2010 tech outfit introduces in engine marketplace . develop online . retrieved 8 february 2015 . the billion dollar game dev trading post . polygon . retrieved 14 august 2015 . unity to acquire everyplay creator applifier . pocketgamer.biz . retrieved 13 august 2015 . unity technologies bulks up on utilities with acquisition of playnomics . forbes.com . retrieved 13 august 2015 . unity details new cloud build service ; opens unity austin . forbes.com . retrieved 13 august 2015 . riccitiello john 23 october 2014 . john riccitiello sets out to identify the engine of growth for unity technologies interview . venturebeat . interview with dean takahashi . retrieved 18 january 2015 . john riccitiello is new ceo at unity . ign . 22 october 2014 . retrieved 2 november 2014 . silkcloud update . silkcloud . retrieved 16 october 2015 . vision vr ar summit . visionsummit2016.com . retrieved 24 march 2016 . technologies unity . articles labs.unity.com . labs.unity.com . retrieved 24 march 2016 . unity unity launches two new versions unity collaborate feature and the unity developer certification program . unity3d.com . retrieved 24 march 2016 . helgason david 2 november 2012 . game developers start your unity 3d engines . gamesbeat . interview with dean takahashi . venturebeat . retrieved 13 july 2014 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title unity technologies & oldid 733512295 categories companies established in 2004video game companies established in 2004video game companies of the united stateshidden categories use dmy dates from may 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages italiano srpskisuomi edit links this page was last modified on 8 august 2016 at 09 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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