Quantum shouldn’t be intimidating. It should be fun.
We build games, music and instruments that turn the next technology revolution into something you can touch, play and feel.
The next technology revolution needs points of contact.
Quantum is the defining technology of the coming decades: the wave waiting at the door right behind AI. Yet there is almost no way for people to touch it. It feels like science fiction, and is widely misread as simply “more computing power.” Understanding the fundamentally different quantum world is what unlocks its applications, and an entire generation is unprepared for it.
technology of the era
The revolution right behind AI: reshaping computing, sensing, materials and security.
opening now
Whole new professions are emerging that will be severely understaffed. Interest has to be built early.
public access
No imagination for real applications, little literacy, and barely any real points of contact. Almost nobody is building here yet.
One place where quantum meets play.
Quantum Entertainment Berlin connects cutting-edge research with a thriving games industry and a vibrant music scene—in the one city where all three already live. Built on prior work across Oxford, Hamburg and Berlin, and the publicly funded research project EntangleVR: Quantum Architect at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
- gamelab.berlin
- Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity” – HU Berlin
- University of Oxford – Quantum Foundations
- Humboldt Innovation GmbH
- PLAY:AI Lab
- leap innovation hub – Quantum Leap Berlin
Quantum you can play.
EntangleVR
See quantum in three dimensions.
A VR application that visualises quantum structures in 3D space (based on Bob Coecke’s ZX-calculus) and makes them interactively malleable. The industry’s notation standard leaps from static 2D into living, dynamic 3D. No higher mathematics required: intuitive, vivid, with feedback you can feel. Built around game design that makes people want quantum. It teaches. It never lectures.
Quantum Arrangements
Play a quantum computer like an instrument.
Software that translates real quantum systems (controlled through MIDI) into sound, video and choreography. Sonification, audio, dance, generative visuals: a true multi-system interaction. A one-qubit prototype already runs on our own quantum guitar (project 03) and is in the hands of many artists. The sheer novelty appeals to an enormously broad spectrum of creators.
Quantum Musical Instruments
Quantum you can hold.
Real instruments and components. A working quantum guitar prototype has already been played in high-profile venues. A line of quantum pedals is next, including many-user pedals that create entanglement to spark musical interaction between players. Guitarists and electronic musicians are eager experimenters and keen collectors of new toys.
Decades in quantum, games and music—in one team.
Dr. Christian Stein
Co-founder of gamelab.berlin (HU Berlin), founder of the PLAY:AI Lab and managing director of Playersjourney GmbH. Game design, XR development, science communication and company building.
Prof. Dr. Bob Coecke
Father of categorical quantum computing and the ZX-calculus, and one of the most visible figures in quantum computing worldwide. Connects quantum research with music and creativity, a field he pioneered.
Manouchehr Shamsrizi
Co-founder of gamelab.berlin and co-director of the leap innovation hub (Quantum Leap Berlin). Dual expertise in serious games and quantum technology, deeply rooted in both ecosystems, with a track record in community building.
The next wave is quantum. Let your team meet it playing.
Quantum is the wave right behind AI, and almost no team is prepared for it. Not because the subject is too hard, but because every way in so far has been a lecture. We bring the other way: put on a headset, pick up an instrument, understand by doing.
Step inside a quantum state
EntangleVR turns the notation the industry actually works with into a 3D space your team can walk through and reshape with their hands.
Play a qubit
The quantum guitar is a real instrument with a real qubit inside. People who have never heard the word superposition hear one within a minute.
Ask the person who wrote the maths
Bob Coecke invented the ZX-calculus. He explains it with spiders that lose legs, and people remember it afterwards.
The method has been tested
54 UK school students sat an exam made of Oxford postgraduate questions after sixteen hours of teaching. 82 per cent passed, 48 per cent with distinction. The method is our co-founder Bob Coecke's.
Read the study →We cut the format to your team instead of selling one off the shelf: a session at your offsite, a day in Berlin, or something built around a question you already have. Tell us who should get it and we will propose something concrete.
Talk to us about your team →Turning quantum from a technical possibility into a societal reality.
A platform for the generation that will build, play and live in the quantum age. We’re incorporating in Berlin in 2026, and we’d love to build it with you.
We’re talking to investors, funding bodies and partners who want to be part of this from the start, and to companies that want to bring their teams into the quantum age.
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Quantum Entertainment Berlin is a proud member of the Anthropia Impact Hub.