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(disclosure: I work on the backend at Parsec) For those who don't know either company: Unity is a popular 2D/3D commercial game engine, and Parsec is a low-lat

(disclosure: I work on the backend at Parsec) For those who don't know either company: Unity is a popular 2D/3D commercial game engine, and Parsec is a low-latency remote desktop tool that initially focused on gaming, but pivoted to an enterprise product for remote creative teams during the pandemic.

ipsum2 5y ago
Congrats on the (hopeful) windfall!
SinParadise 5y ago
Amazing app, glad to see the pivot. It is a great fit.
bradrn 5y ago
Thank you! When I read the title I only knew about https://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec https://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec, and for a moment I was very confused…
- xedrac 5y ago
  Same here. I thought, "What does Unity want with a parsing library written in Haskell, and why is it worth $320M?"
  - smlckz 5y ago
    Naming things are hard :)
- chrissnell 5y ago
  Well, I read it and thought, “I loved Parsec on my TI-99 and the speech synthesis was amazing…but…$320MM?”
  - rapind 5y ago
    And here I was thinking some sort of FTL company. $320M seemed cheap.
wyldfire 5y ago
I can't quite tell from the webpage. "Parsec for Teams": is that an AR-meeting-room-with-avatars kinda thing? Or is there some kind of photogrammetry? Oh -- I see, it's for creative teams to share their design work? sketches, models, etc?
- Operyl 5y ago
  It’s the remote control product, with some extra features and permissions for teams (useful for having a cluster of devices and assigning them out to remote workers who need specific hardware etc). https://parsec.app/teams/ https://parsec.app/teams/
shahar2k 5y ago
I use parsec at home to run a gaming machine in a gaming room... and use the same machine as an art creation machine in another room, parsec is one of the few solutions that plays well with pressure and stylus, custom resolutions and even 120 hz (surprisingly useful when trying to have responsive UI in art apps) any of that going to change?
- x0x0 5y ago
  ... trying to get a random backend engineer to publicly share and comment on company policy during an acquisition. An acquisition into a public company no less.
  - canadianfella 5y ago
    Why not?
  - adar 5y ago
    And? They lose absolutely nothing by asking.
    - x0x0 5y ago
      Beyond not being a confrontational jerk -- read the phrasing -- quite possibly helping get someone fired for cause? It's almost certainly a blackout period.
girvo 5y ago
As someone who used Parsec for ages to game at 1440p 60hz via AWS on my old-as-sin MacBook: thank you for the amazing work you and your team mates did, and I'm stoked to see the company have such success!
roystonvassey 5y ago
Thanks! This is exactly the summary I came looking for for in the comments.( thanks to my ADHD riddled monkey brain)
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op00to 5y ago
I use Parsec to access my amateur radio shack computer remotely! Good stuff!

ipsum2 5y ago

Congrats on the (hopeful) windfall!

SinParadise 5y ago

Amazing app, glad to see the pivot. It is a great fit.

bradrn 5y ago

Thank you! When I read the title I only knew about https://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec https://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec, and for a moment I was very confused…

xedrac 5y ago
Same here. I thought, "What does Unity want with a parsing library written in Haskell, and why is it worth $320M?"
- smlckz 5y ago
  Naming things are hard :)
chrissnell 5y ago
Well, I read it and thought, “I loved Parsec on my TI-99 and the speech synthesis was amazing…but…$320MM?”
- rapind 5y ago
  And here I was thinking some sort of FTL company. $320M seemed cheap.

wyldfire 5y ago

I can't quite tell from the webpage. "Parsec for Teams": is that an AR-meeting-room-with-avatars kinda thing? Or is there some kind of photogrammetry? Oh -- I see, it's for creative teams to share their design work? sketches, models, etc?

Operyl 5y ago
It’s the remote control product, with some extra features and permissions for teams (useful for having a cluster of devices and assigning them out to remote workers who need specific hardware etc). https://parsec.app/teams/ https://parsec.app/teams/

shahar2k 5y ago

I use parsec at home to run a gaming machine in a gaming room... and use the same machine as an art creation machine in another room, parsec is one of the few solutions that plays well with pressure and stylus, custom resolutions and even 120 hz (surprisingly useful when trying to have responsive UI in art apps) any of that going to change?

x0x0 5y ago
... trying to get a random backend engineer to publicly share and comment on company policy during an acquisition. An acquisition into a public company no less.
- canadianfella 5y ago
  Why not?
- adar 5y ago
  And? They lose absolutely nothing by asking.
  - x0x0 5y ago
    Beyond not being a confrontational jerk -- read the phrasing -- quite possibly helping get someone fired for cause? It's almost certainly a blackout period.

girvo 5y ago

As someone who used Parsec for ages to game at 1440p 60hz via AWS on my old-as-sin MacBook: thank you for the amazing work you and your team mates did, and I'm stoked to see the company have such success!

roystonvassey 5y ago

Thanks! This is exactly the summary I came looking for for in the comments.( thanks to my ADHD riddled monkey brain)

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op00to 5y ago

I use Parsec to access my amateur radio shack computer remotely! Good stuff!