
A vanished watch-party app, an anime habit and a Waterloo capstone sent Philip Scott down a stranger path: building a browser that friends - and eventually developers - could control together.
Hyperbeam is a developer API for embedding cloud-hosted virtual computers and multiplayer web browsers directly inside any web, mobile, VR, or desktop app. Built on streamed Chromium instances delivered over WebRTC, it lets many people view and control the same live browser session at once - powering watch parties, co-browsing, remote learning, virtual offices, and increasingly the browser layer for AI agents. Founded by three University of Waterloo engineers, it went through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch.