Microsoft’s social VR platform, AltspaceVR, has been updated with a renewed emphasis on event hosting. While it’s always been possible to hop into AltspaceVR just to hang out and chat, the platform is ...

Bottom line: AltspaceVR parent company Microsoft has started rolling out changes to the platform that will effectively destroy the community users have created. The changes are partially under the ...

VR is still a technology in its nascence, and that has lead to an exciting first year of consumer virtual reality. Today, we are reminded of the cruel reality of the challenges of being on the cutting ...

AltspaceVR has had a few close calls over the years, but the company that built virtual social spaces well before “metaverse” was a household word is shuttering for good this time. After announcing ...

Social virtual reality (VR) startup AltspaceVR has run out of funding and is going to shut down its service in early August. AltspaceVR announced the closure late Thursday, inviting its users to a ...

The virtual reality (VR) social platform AltspaceVR last week announced it would host its final event on Aug. 3 and then shut down. AltspaceVR enabled users to virtually gather in simulated ...

Following weeks of speculation surrounding the social VR platform’s successful turnaround, it has been revealed today that AltspaceVR is now part of Microsoft. Despite being one of the original social ...

Join HoloLens inventor Alex Kipman for a VR town hall. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. AltspaceVR is gearing up to host another ...

Silicon Valley is already solving some of the biggest problems bubbling up around virtual reality: namely that it’s expensive and takes forever to set up. But one it hasn’t is the way the technology ...

After selling his social virtual reality startup to Microsoft in October, Eric Romo, the co-founder of AltspaceVR, is joining the competing social VR team at Facebook as its product director, where he ...