The point of this project/company is that the agents are spatially embedded. Markets are almost abstracted from their physical layout (with the exception of high-frequency stuff where the speed of light breaks the abstraction).

There is a big difference in computational requirements between simulating a system and constructing/analyzing a model of a system from measurements, doubly so if the system being modeled is live. To put it another way, you typically can't use virtual world platform computer science to build a mirror world platform that captures complex dynamics happening in reality. Very different problems.

For financial markets, modeling and analyzing systems as they are measured is far more useful (and what is done in practice), so spatial simulation platforms are not that interesting.

> Simulated worlds provide unique insight to those asking questions of complex systems. As well as enabling completely new experiences in gaming, simulated worlds can solve significant problems in areas as diverse as defence, energy, city efficiency, health, and finance.

https://angel.co/improbable

They'll get to it trust me...

I signed up for early access, and they asked what business I was in. Choices included games, academia, and finance.