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Fluxon Acquires Metaverse 3D Virtual Events Platform Pluto.

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US-based product development firm Fluxon has acquired virtual events platform Pluto, the company said.

Pluto offers a platform where people can hang out and collaborate in the metaverse, in 3D worlds such as the Maldives, Burning Man, or Admont Abbey in Austria.

This acquisition adds to the company's growing portfolio of productivity and collaboration tools, including the real-time Q and A application, Dory.

As a remote first company, Fluxon, which was founded in 2017 by leaders from Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and other tech companies, has focused on creating effective tools and processes to encourage participation across time zones.

Fluxon builds products for startups and fast-growing companies all over the world, and delivers end-to-end development across design, product management and engineering.

In 2020, entrepreneur and investor, Elad Gil, reached out to Fluxon to build an immersive virtual social experience.

He saw that the shift to remote work had expanded the decisions people are willing to make without in-person interaction, from fund-raising to making friends but the available video conferencing tools were missing an important ingredient: serendipity.

The idea was simple: Instead of talking to people in static rooms over video calls, what if people could meet anywhere, and have more life-like, human interactions, and chance encounters?

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