An intimate cinema of people playing with their phones as controllers in varied ways — filming, texting, aiming, tilting — facing a six-panel screen of deadpan low-poly 3D cats living absurd celebrity lives: a smoothie bar, a talk-show set, an LA freeway chase, a hotel pool, a mansion, and the Third Wave wave-cube logo
Third Wave
Shared-Screen Multiplayer
Est. 2024 · Culver City

Third
Wave

Making places playable

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A NEW MEDIUM · 100 PLAYERS · ONE SCREEN · NOT A GAME, NOT A MOVIE · NO GOGGLES · NO CONTROLLERS · BRING YOUR PHONE · IRL 4 EVER ·
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For Developers

Build on
Third Wave

Build location-based, phone-as-controller experiences  Blow some wigs back in a new medium  Distribute through the Third Wave platform

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For Venues

Your space, playable

License the platform  Any room can be a venue for shared play  Guests use their own phones  No hardware graveyard, SDKs for all engines

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A New Medium
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