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THE SAN FRANCISCO EDITION 2026

San Francisco’s
gaming industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping gaming in San Francisco. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

Snapshot: Funding in USD
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COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

Gaming illustration
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore San Francisco’s gaming leaders

24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.

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Gaming company highlights in San Francisco, snapshot 2 September 2026
Company
Unityunity.com$3.08B—7,703Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Zyngazynga.com$1.98B10 roles501$2.8BFYFY2021 filing
Discorddiscord.com$978.3M8 roles614—
Forteforte.io$910M—3—
Nianticnianticlabs.com$772.84M—733Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Kabamkabam.com$244.85M—63—
VITUREviture.com$210M—4—
Pocket Gemspocketgems.com$155M—210—
Appodealappodeal.com—6 roles16—
Product Madnessproductmadness.com—5 roles248—
Twitch Rivalstwitchrivals.com—5 roles——
Asmodee Digitalasmodee-digital.com—3 roles42—
Crystal Dynamicscrystald.com—3 roles269—
Fifth Column Gamesc5games.com—2 roles——
Fabulatwitter.com——7,500Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
GGWPggwp.com——52—
Linden Lablindenlab.com——213—
Pogo Gamespogo.com——2—
Riot Gamesriotgames.com——4,500—
Slideslide.com——125—
Speedrunspeedrun.com————
Twitchtwitch.tv——1,100—
Websimwebsim.com————
volleyvolleythat.com——124—
24 featured companies

Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Gaming industry KPIs in San Francisco

A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.

2 September 2026
Hiring participation4.2%

21 of 504 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation32.7%

165 of 504 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share58.1%

Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.

Median disclosed round$4M

Midpoint of 184 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 58.1% of disclosed capital, while 67.3% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How San Francisco gaming has grown

Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.

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2016 — 2025

Disclosed funding by year

Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD

San Francisco gaming
$0$977.41M$1.95B$2.93B$3.91B2016: $217.7M20162017: $814.91M20172018: $391.34M20182019: $1.15B20192020: $1.01B20202021: $3.43B20212022: $227.42M20222023: $64.26M20232024: $160.19M20242025: $878.93M2025
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Annual gaming funding and company formation in San Francisco
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$217.7M217
2017$814.91M2518
2018$391.34M2715
2019$1.15B2316
2020$1.01B2414
2021$3.43B3423
2022$227.42M2717
2023$64.26M3817
2024$160.19M2614
2025$878.93M612
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • Unity29.7%
  • Zynga19.0%
  • Discord9.4%
  • Other companies41.9%

Funding by stage

212 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel111 52.4%
Series A–B63 29.7%
Series C+ / PE18 8.5%
Grants, debt & other20 9.4%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
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Series A04/2026
GGWP $15M

Backed by Smile Gate Investment and Korea Investment Holdings and others.

Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
10 cards

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Series I09/2021
Discorddiscord.com$500M

Backed by Dragoneer Investment Group and Baillie Gifford and others.

Series A05/2021
Forteforte.io$185M

Backed by Griffin Gaming Partners and Union Grove Venture Partners and others.

Series C07/2016
Unityunity.com$181M

Backed by China Investment Corporation and Frees Fund and others.

Series C12/2009
Zyngazynga.com$180M

Backed by DST Global and Tiger Global Management and others.

THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.

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USD · millions · consolidated

Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.

FY2021 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 1 reporting entities from 1 eligible matches.

Revenue in covered accounts—

Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not San Francisco market sales.

Net profit / loss—

Combined result for the same cohort.

Aggregate net margin—

Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.

Median company revenue—

The middle covered reporting entity.

Profitable entities—

None of 1 covered entities.

Top-five concentration—

Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.

Annual account trend

Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.

Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.

Profitability has two perspectives

FY2021 · 1 reporting entities

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SAN FRANCISCO · INDUSTRY COHORTS

How does gaming compare?

Each pair uses the same year, currency and reporting basis. Cohort overlap is disclosed.

IndustryCovered / eligibleRevenue totalMedian revenueNet profit / lossAggregate marginProfitable shareOverlap

Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.

Coverage, calculations & financial sources

Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.

The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.

Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

How the San Francisco companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.

Busiest websites

32 of the 505 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (6.3%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 562,005 visits.

CompanyMonthly visitsAuthorityMobile
Twitchtwitch.tv1,165,038,3029711.1%
Discorddiscord.com985,012,0399523.9%
Riot Gamesriotgames.com100,034,8057413.5%
Unityunity.com13,901,3427140.1%
FunPlusfunplus.com9,697,6093684.5%
Speedrunspeedrun.com7,624,3715361.6%
Gameflipgameflip.com3,379,9114565.2%
Websimwebsim.com2,718,3624467.3%
Kongregatekongregate.com2,321,2265124.3%
Rdr2 Maprdr2map.com1,800,7673973.7%

Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.

Most-installed apps

70 of these companies (13.9%) publish at least one Android app — 291 apps in all, carrying 3.7B installs between them.

Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.

App reach by segment

The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q1–2026Q1).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Augmented Reality3559.1MPokémon GO 555.9M
Gaming Tech39366.9MTwitch: Live Streaming 355.2M
Social Platforms22363MHearo - Watch Movies Together 3.3M
Esports14358.6MRepeat 64.3K
Ott Video13358.5MFantaPil 40.9K
Disease Self Management329.1MLumosity: Brain Training Games 28.3M
Artificial Intelligence139.2MSpades - Expert AI 3.9M
Mobile Game Developers28.1MHabitica: Gamify Your Tasks 8M

A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.

Release cadence by quarter

New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.

2023Q2: 52023Q2: 02023Q22023Q3: 62023Q3: 42023Q32023Q4: 32023Q4: 52023Q42024Q1: 22024Q1: 02024Q12024Q2: 22024Q2: 12024Q22024Q3: 92024Q3: 32024Q32024Q4: 52024Q4: 122024Q42025Q1: 42025Q1: 12025Q12025Q2: 42025Q2: 12025Q22025Q3: 42025Q3: 92025Q32025Q4: 32025Q4: 422025Q42026Q1: 22026Q1: 422026Q1

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 264 of 291 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The San Francisco gaming market map

Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Consumer digital374
Casual game developers159
Mobile game developers145
Enterprise tech126
Pc and console game developers77
Spatial computing65
Blockchain in gaming52
Enterprise software52
Online gaming platforms48
Web 3.045
Decentralized finance37
Gaming engines31

Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Consumer digital

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

374companies
4.5%have hiring activity

17 companies hiring · $5.82B disclosed funding

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How companies make money

Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.

Subscription380
Commission on transaction204
Advertising200
E-commerce - product113
E-commerce - service85
Fee-for-service39
Sponsorship27
Freemium17
THE COMPANIES IN MOTION

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.

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Recent corporate headlines 10 dated reports
Mergers & acquisitionsnianticlabs.com ↗

Savvy purchased Pokémon Go maker Niantic in 2025 for $3.5 billion.

Funding roundsslide.com ↗

Slide Raises $70M in Series B Funding to Reinvent Backup and Disaster Recovery for MSPs

Funding roundsviture.com ↗

VITURE, a San Francisco-based XR and AR hardware innovator, closed $100 million in strategic funding led by Legend Capital (affiliated with Lenovo) with participation from Bertelsmann Group.

Mergers & acquisitionsthelabel.game ↗

Subsequently, the Group has completed the business acquisitions of StoryToys in 2021, astragon and The Label in 2022, and Independent Arts Software GmbH by astragon in 2023.

Mergers & acquisitionstwitter.com ↗

Last year, he merged X, the social-media company formerly known as Twitter, and xAI into one company valued at an estimated $113 billion.

Funding roundsartie.com ↗

Artie, a fully managed real-time data streaming platform, today announced a $12M Series A led by Dalton Caldwell at Standard Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, Pathlight Ventures, and angel investors including Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox co-founder & former CTO), Benn Stancil (Mode CTO), Chris Best (Substack CEO), Charles Hearn (Alloy CTO), and Lenny Rachitsky (Lenny’s Podcast).

IPO activitydiscord.com ↗

Chat platform Discord has confidentially filed for an IPO in the US, according to a report.

Mergers & acquisitionsrawfury.com ↗

Taiwan-based publisher Neon Doctrine will merge into its sister company Raw Fury as part of broader restructuring.

Funding roundsrosebud.ai ↗

Rosebud raised $6 million in seed funding for its platform that is dedicated to transforming journaling into an AI-enhanced personal mentor.

Lawsuittwitch.tv ↗

The long-running lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X Corp against the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) has been dismissed by a judge.

Full recorded event mix

Top 10 categories among 360 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Lawsuit
97
Regulatory
73
Leadership moves
70
Mergers & acquisitions
32
Funding rounds
24
New products
15
Earnings
13
Layoffs
12
Company announcements
6
Contracts
5
6 activity cards

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IPO pipeline

3 companies with recorded IPO activity

Discord ↗

IPO · United States3 reports

Zynga ↗

IPO · Nasdaq4 reports

Slide ↗

IPO · Nasdaq1 reports

Leadership moves

10 tracked people moves

Riot Games ↗
Gaude Lydia Paez

Departure Previously Chief Communications Officer and Head of Corporate Affairs

Riot Games ↗
Joe Hixson

Appointment Vice President of Communications

Unity ↗
Alex Blum

Appointment Chief Operating Officer

Niantic ↗
Jori Pearsall

Appointment Senior Vice President of Games

Riot Games ↗
Raymond Bartos

Appointment Senior Game Producer

Twitch ↗
Michelle Scully

Resignation Previously Global Communications Head

Twitch ↗
Brielle Villablanca

Departure Previously global head of comms and community engagement

Discord ↗
Humam Sakhnini

Appointment Chief Executive Officer

Product launches

Products, platforms and features in the recorded window

Discord ↗
Arena Quests

Advertising

Regulatory events

2 recorded events

Discord ↗

investigated for CSAM reporting deficienciesSenate Judiciary Committee

Discord ↗

order issued for informationFederal Trade Commission

Litigation

19 tracked suits

Company
Elon Musk’s X Corp v World Federation of Advertisers, lego, mars, cvs, nestlé, ør

antitrust conspiracy involving advertiser boycottAntitrust · Dismissed

Company
Elon Musk’s X, World Federation of Advertisers, cvs health, v mars, lego, nestlé

Illicit boycott of X by advertisersAntitrust · Dismissed

Mergers and acquisitions

Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
take-two interactive→Zynga ↗Announced2026-05-01$11.0B
Elon Musk→Fabula ↗Completed2026-04-22Not stated in snapshot
Savvy Games→Niantic ↗2026-03-20$3.5B
Zynga→peak gamesCompleted2026-02-25Not stated in snapshot
scopely→Niantic ↗Completed2026-02-19$3.5B
everplay→The Label ↗Completed2026-02-11Not stated in snapshot

A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

467 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 992-posting snapshot covers 47 employers.

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Most advertised job titles

Intermediate Designer17
Sales Manager14
Medical Sales Representative9
Senior Software Engineer9
Software Engineer9
Customer Success Manager/Account Manager9
1 internship postings

45 tracked postings mention remote work.

The seniority mix

403 postings specify a level.

unspecified
589
senior
175
manager
167
lead
53
intern
6
entry
2

Skills employers mention

Top skills across 992 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.

Python
46
Sql
46
C++
40
Unity
23
Java
22
Jira
21
Excel
20
C#
20
Aws
18
Photoshop
16
ADVERTISED PAY$145.0K/ year

Median across 95 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.

Salary by seniority

manager$147.4K/ year34 postings

Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.

THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

320 founders and chief executives across 200 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

82 profiles with education records.

Stanford University
23
University of California (Berkeley)
14
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8
Stanford Business School
7
Harvard University
7
Yale University
4
University of California (Los Angeles)
3
University of Oxford
3

Prior employers

25 profiles with prior-work records.

Google
9
Facebook
4
Amazon
3
Apple
2
McKinsey
2
Goldman Sachs
2
Microsoft
2
Airbnb
2

Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.

NEWS INTELLIGENCE

How this industry appears in the news

2,484 articles in the measured 12-month window.

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2,484articles in the measured year
648articles in 2026Q1
75.4%positive tone in the latest complete year

News volume trends

Gaming coverage tagged San Francisco · articles per complete quarter

03887751,1631,5502021Q2: 6842021Q22021Q3: 6472021Q4: 6912022Q1: 9142022Q2: 1,0892022Q22022Q3: 6762022Q4: 9242023Q1: 9362023Q2: 1,1422023Q22023Q3: 9052023Q4: 1,1332024Q1: 1,3482024Q2: 6782024Q22024Q3: 1,0052024Q4: 1,1602025Q1: 1,1542025Q2: 7852025Q22025Q3: 6522025Q4: 5442026Q1: 6482026Q1
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QuarterArticles
2021Q2684
2021Q3647
2021Q4691
2022Q1914
2022Q21,089
2022Q3676
2022Q4924
2023Q1936
2023Q21,142
2023Q3905
2023Q41,133
2024Q11,348
2024Q2678
2024Q31,005
2024Q41,160
2025Q11,154
2025Q2785
2025Q3652
2025Q4544
2026Q1648

Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.

Tone of coverage over time

2021
1,682 positive · 26 neutral · 459 negative
2022
2,651 positive · 49 neutral · 892 negative
2023
2,740 positive · 42 neutral · 1,326 negative
2024
3,367 positive · 47 neutral · 770 negative
2025
2,354 positive · 62 neutral · 708 negative

Leading coverage topics

Gaming coverage tagged San Francisco · ranked by full-period article count.

Horse Racing Betting Tips34,582 articles in the full recorded period
5,693 recent · 6,074 prior
Cryptocurrency Impact On Forex Markets14,327 articles in the full recorded period
3,310 recent · 2,605 prior
Sports Betting And Fantasy Leagues10,359 articles in the full recorded period
1,108 recent · 5,726 prior
Professional League Updates9,778 articles in the full recorded period
1,564 recent · 3,679 prior
College Athletics News9,435 articles in the full recorded period
1,620 recent · 3,092 prior
Betting On Nfl Football Games8,727 articles in the full recorded period
1,514 recent · 5,309 prior
Nba Team Histories And Rivalries6,849 articles in the full recorded period
1,115 recent · 3,044 prior
Over/Under Totals In Sports Gambling6,773 articles in the full recorded period
813 recent · 4,316 prior
Horse Racing And Thoroughbred Breeding6,705 articles in the full recorded period
799 recent · 1,087 prior
Prop Bets For Major Sporting Events6,687 articles in the full recorded period
844 recent · 4,302 prior

Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.

Topics gaining and losing attention

United States comparison coverage

KeywordRecentPriorChange
sports betting laws1,7681,07265%
legal betting states1,68196075%
gambling legislation1,55688975%
sports wagering compliance1,50286374%
gambling regulations1,49783280%
jackpot rollover rules81642791%
game studio news74148852%
sports betting regulators73247753%
betting site reviews71050341%
multi-state lottery673322109%
nfl betting1,3515,365-75%
super bowl betting1,2094,783-75%
nfl prop bets1,2424,085-70%
sports odds analytics5533,914-86%
nfl odds8262,954-72%

Event and signal lenses

United States comparison coverage

All complete annual cohorts shown
Rising

Regulatory Risk

137,368 classified articles

sports betting laws, legal betting states, sports wagering compliance

32.8% critical · 36.2% positive
Rising

Funding Momentum

40,388 classified articles

thoroughbred betting advice, horse race betting guides, education lottery proceeds

21.2% critical · 48.6% positive
Rising

Growth

43,570 classified articles

nba expansion teams, nba team legends, historic nba games

30.8% critical · 41.9% positive

Gaming coverage tagged San Francisco. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.

RESEARCH SIGNALS

What Gaming research is working on

670 papers in the recorded india scope.

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670papers
7,757worldwide comparison pool
670India-affiliated papers

Research orientation

Breakthrough
347
Promising
189
Descriptive
74
Problem-identifying
27
Comparative
22
Cautionary
11

Contribution mix

Methods-led
560
Empirical
61
Reviews
29
Position pieces
18
Theoretical
2

Tone counts: 662 positive · 8 neutral · 0 negative.

Common problems researchers identify
27 papers · 4.0% of this field
  • Rendering16 papers
  • Computer graphics13 papers
  • Real-time rendering6 papers
  • Game engine6 papers
  • Human–computer interaction5 papers
  • Virtual reality3 papers
  • Game design3 papers
  • Visualization2 papers

Landmark: Direct Volume Rendering: A 3D Plotting Technique for Scientific Data

Cautions
11 papers · 1.6% of this field
  • Rendering9 papers
  • Computer graphics4 papers
  • Game engine2 papers
  • Shading2 papers
  • Locality1 papers
  • Scalability1 papers
  • Parallel rendering1 papers
  • Texture memory1 papers

Landmark: OO-VR

Opportunities
536 papers · 80.0% of this field
  • Rendering375 papers
  • Computer graphics190 papers
  • Game engine92 papers
  • Real-time rendering81 papers
  • Virtual reality50 papers
  • Human–computer interaction38 papers
  • Visualization34 papers
  • Global illumination28 papers

Landmark: Rendering synthetic objects into real scenes

Leading institutions

Google
1,193
University of California, Berkeley
1,152
Cornell University
828
Princeton University
764
Stanford University
610
Microsoft
444

Leading researchers

Pratul P. Srinivasan
970
Paul Debevec
969
Qianqian Wang
667
Zhicheng Wang
654
Kyle Genova
654
Howard Zhou
654
Justus Thies
416
Rui Wang
355

Highly cited breakthrough-labelled papers

  • Rendering synthetic objects into real scenes969 citations
  • IBRNet: Learning Multi-View Image-Based Rendering654 citations
  • Advances in Neural Rendering316 citations
  • Floating Textures143 citations
  • Frequency analysis and sheared reconstruction for rendering motion blur126 citations

Common problems researchers identify

27 papers · 4 recurring themes
4 cards

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Computer Graphics / RenderingCommon problems researchers identify · 01

Computer Graphics / Rendering

10 papers

37.0% of this theme group

Computer graphics (10) · Rendering (9) · Real-time rendering (5) · Animation (2)

<scp>MetaSapiens:</scp> Real-Time Neural Rendering with Efficiency-Aware Pruning and Accelerated Foveated Rendering

Non-photorealistic Rendering: Unleashing the Artist's Imagination [Graphically Speaking]

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YearShare index
2022393.4
2023389.0
2024380.5
2025370.3
Human–Computer Interaction / Game DesignCommon problems researchers identify · 02

Human–Computer Interaction / Game Design

8 papers

29.6% of this theme group

Human–computer interaction (5) · Game design (4) · Game Developer (3) · Game engine (4)

Adopting game technology for architectural visualization

Game engines and immersive displays

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YearShare index
20221340.4
20231496.7
20241557.5
2025758.4
Rendering / Computer GraphicsCommon problems researchers identify · 03

Rendering / Computer Graphics

6 papers

22.2% of this theme group

Rendering (6) · Computer graphics (5) · Real-time rendering (2)

Direct Volume Rendering: A 3D Plotting Technique for Scientific Data

Interactive voxelized epipolar shadow volumes

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YearShare index
202215.2
202315.6
202410.8
202513.7
Game EngineCommon problems researchers identify · 04

Game Engine

3 papers

11.1% of this theme group

Game engine (3)

Imported Assets

Entities and Slices

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YearShare index
202217.6
202315.6
202414.0
202511.4

Opportunities

512 papers · 7 recurring themes
7 cards

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Game Engine / Video Game DevelopmentOpportunities · 01

Game Engine / Video Game Development

92 papers

18.0% of this theme group

Game engine (72) · Video game development (13) · Game programming (10) · Game Developer (10)

Interactive Highway Construction Simulation Using Game Engine and Virtual Reality for Education and Training Purpose

Using elements of game engine architecture to simulate sensor networks for eldercare

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YearShare index
202268.5
202369.9
202467.9
202567.1
Rendering / Computer GraphicsOpportunities · 02

Rendering / Computer Graphics

81 papers

15.8% of this theme group

Rendering (78) · Computer graphics (56) · Real-time rendering (39) · Global illumination (20)

Rendering synthetic objects into real scenes

Real-Time Rendering of Rough Refraction

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YearShare index
202222.7
202325.7
202415.4
202519.6
Tiled Rendering / RenderingOpportunities · 03

Tiled Rendering / Rendering

75 papers

14.6% of this theme group

Tiled rendering (29) · Rendering (73) · Alternate frame rendering (14) · Computer graphics (29)

IBRNet: Learning Multi-View Image-Based Rendering

A real-time remote rendering system for interactive mobile graphics

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YearShare index
20227.0
20239.1
20243.8
20255.5
Rendering / Computer GraphicsOpportunities · 04

Rendering / Computer Graphics

71 papers

13.9% of this theme group

Rendering (70) · Computer graphics (42) · Pixel (11) · Shader (12)

Image-based rendering for scenes with reflections

Amortized supersampling

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YearShare index
20221239.6
20231185.3
2024814.2
2025827.4
Rendering / Computer GraphicsOpportunities · 05

Rendering / Computer Graphics

69 papers

13.5% of this theme group

Rendering (69) · Computer graphics (45) · Real-time rendering (25) · Volume rendering (11)

Real-time Illumination and Visual Coherence for Photorealistic Augmented/Mixed Reality

Real-Time Rendering Method and Performance Evaluation of Composable 3D Lenses for Interactive VR

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YearShare index
202231.1
202336.0
202426.8
202528.8
Human–Computer Interaction / Virtual RealityOpportunities · 06

Human–Computer Interaction / Virtual Reality

64 papers

12.5% of this theme group

Human–computer interaction (42) · Virtual reality (30) · Game engine (33) · Virtual machine (9)

Developing virtual reality applications with Unity

Real-Time 3D Model Reconstruction and Interaction Using Kinect for a Game-Based Virtual Laboratory

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YearShare index
20221913.0
20232108.8
20242371.0
20252078.6
Rendering / Computer GraphicsOpportunities · 07

Rendering / Computer Graphics

60 papers

11.7% of this theme group

Rendering (56) · Computer graphics (36) · Software rendering (12) · Graphics pipeline (10)

A GPU‐based Approach for Massive Model Rendering with Frame‐to‐Frame Coherence

Performance Modeling of vl3 Volume Rendering on GPU-Based Clusters

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YearShare index
202215.2
202320.2
20249.1
202510.2

How this field compares with the research baseline

Orientation shares compared with 25,000 papers in the reference sample.

Research orientationThis fieldReference sample
Breakthrough51.8%26.2%
Promising28.2%37.2%
Descriptive11.0%17.7%
Problem-identifying4.0%9.5%
Comparative3.3%4.0%
Cautionary1.6%4.4%

Concerns receiving less research attention

Counts and shares refer to the stated research pool. A low count describes how much of that research is recorded here, not the absence of a real-world concern.

Concern / example paperPapersShareRaised as a problemWorldwide share
Energy & datacenter footprintNeuGPU: An Energy-Efficient Neural Graphics Processing Unit for Instant Modeling and Real-Time Rendering on Mobile Devic20.31%0 (0.0%)0.1%
Water use00.0%0 (%)0.0%
Carbon & emissions of compute00.0%0 (%)0.0%
Hardware, e-waste & supply chain00.0%0 (%)0.0%
Labour & data work00.0%0 (%)0.0%
Privacy & surveillance00.0%0 (%)0.03%
Safety & misuse00.0%0 (%)0.01%
Bias & fairness00.0%0 (%)0.0%
Concentration of compute power00.0%0 (%)0.0%

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