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Monsarrat - Can You Come Out to Play?
Monsarrat is a Los Angeles-based augmented reality game studio building what it calls the world's first Outdoor RPG. Founded by Johnny Monsarrat - who co-founded Turbine, one of the first MMO companies, later sold to Warner Bros. for $160M - the studio's demo game Landing Party spreads an entire fantasy world across any real-world park or open space instead of pinning one creature to a GPS point. Backed by seven-plus patents, a ~12-person team, and an advisory board of former PlayStation, Blizzard, Niantic, and Lucasfilm executives, Monsarrat pitches outdoor gaming as an antidote to a loneliness epidemic - a reason to walk outside and play.
Ryan Mullins
Ryan David Mullins is the co-founder and CEO of Onlife, a Los Angeles spatial-AI company building a Smart Map powered by a proprietary Spatial Behavior Engine. He is best known for creating Aglet, the location-based sneaker game that grew to roughly 4 million players by getting people to walk in the real world to collect virtual kicks. A former Director of Future Trends at Adidas and a serial founder (oolipo, readfy), Mullins blends product building with public writing on technology, philosophy and theology - styling himself an entrepreneur-philosopher who chases what he calls the Prometheus Principle.