[charlietran]

(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.

[girvo]

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!

[shahar2k]

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?

[bradrn]

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

[xedrac]

Same here. I thought, "What does Unity want with a parsing library written in Haskell, and why is it worth $320M?"

[smlckz]

Naming things are hard :)

[chrissnell]

Well, I read it and thought, “I loved Parsec on my TI-99 and the speech synthesis was amazing…but…$320MM?”

[rapind]

And here I was thinking some sort of FTL company. $320M seemed cheap.

[SinParadise]

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

[wyldfire]

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]

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/

[roystonvassey]

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

[op00to]

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

[ipsum2]

Congrats on the (hopeful) windfall!