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Nick Ochoa on the State of Social VR

Nick Ochoa is a co-founder of UploadVR, and he was recently at the VRX Virtual Reality Intelligence conference hosting a panel on social VR. Nick talks about of his open questions about social VR such as what does it...

‘Cinemas’ Social Home Theater Space for Oculus Rift Launches from Creators of ‘Convrge’

Convrge, the virtual reality social platform known for hosting one of the largest gatherings in social VR history—a shared viewing of the Oculus' pre-E3 event—is now taking the online space in a new direction, one that is decidedly much more intimate...

AltspaceVR Brings Official Dungeons & Dragons to Social VR

Social virtual reality platform AltspaceVR have today announced they're partnering with Wizards of the Coast, publisher of Dungeons and Dragons, to bring the brand into virtual reality, retaining the social aspects that makes the table-top incarnations so popular. Role playing...
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Video Hands-On with ‘Oculus Social’, Enabling Shared Experiences on Gear VR

Always on the bleeding edge, Road to VR's Scott Hayden braves the brand new Oculus Social alpha release, Oculus' answer to social interaction between users in virtual reality, just released on Gear VR. He also recorded his experiences for...

Oculus Social Alpha is Now Available for Gear VR

Oculus has quietly launched an alpha version of it's long awaited 'Social' platform, debuting on the Samsung Gear VR. The application lets your pick avatars, share virtual spaces and interact with others in virtual reality and represents somewhat of...

OC2: Day One Recap in AltspaceVR @8:30pm PST, Hosted by Ben Lang and Cymatic Bruce

Oculus' 2nd developer conference 'Connect' is under way, and with day one over, Road to VR is partnering with AltspaceVR bring you a virtual reality recap of everything that happened. Hosted by our very own Ben Lang and AltspaceVR's 'Cymatic' Bruce Wooden...

AltspaceVR Launches New SDK to Promote Social VR Application Development

AltspaceVR have had a hell of a week. As part of their ongoing 'Social Week' the company have made some big announcements, Gear VR support and cross platform capabilities with the addition of HTC Vive support. Now, the company...

AltspaceVR Now Supports HTC Vive, Making for 3 VR Headsets in Cross Platform Space

AltspaceVR today announced that the social VR platform will be receiving official support for HTC Vive, the first consumer VR headset to integrate large-scale positional tracking. After yesterday's announcement that the VR social space would soon be getting mobile support via...

‘Two Bit Circus’ Can Sync Audience Experiences in VR, Tech to Debut at VRLA

Two Bit Circus VR, an experiential entertainment company based in LA, has developed a system to sync 360 VR video experiences across 'limitless' local Gear VR users to help create a truly shared VR experience. As isolating as virtual reality is...

AltspaceVR Hosts DOTA 2 Championship Viewing Party, Watch the Main Event August 3-8 in VR

The International Dota 2 Championships have returned to the KeyArena in Seattle this year to see twenty teams compete in front of crowds in excess of 15,000 people. Can't make it in person? Why not pop into AltspaceVR and enjoy the action...

AltspaceVR Raises Extra $10M to Accelerate Growth and Product Development

AltspaceVR, the virtual reality communication platform, has announced it's to receive an additional $10M of funds to help accelerate the company's product development. AltspaceVR is a social communications platform which allows networked VR participants to meet, share, present and talk in virtual...

ILMxLab Creative Director John Gaeta Talks Immersive Star Wars Experiences and More this Sunday in Convrge

Convrge, the social VR space that regularly hosts events and weekly meetups, have announced a talk led by John Gaeta, the visual effects artist of The Matrix trilogy and current creative director of Industrial Light and Magic's xLab. The talk is entitled "The Future...

Hands-on: AltspaceVR’s Launch Update Enhances Social Features and Adds All-important Selfie Cam

Accompanying today's launch of AltspaceVR, the company behind the application, also called AltspaceVR, has released an updated build that further expands upon social features and also adds a selfie function because, you know... selfies. Additionally, recently added environments help...

ConVRge Weekend Events: Leap Motion Q&A and Road to VR Team AMA

ConVRge, the online VR social space, has announced its event lineup for this weekend and they include an informal AMA with the Road to VR team as well as a developer focused Q&A with Leap Motion 'Experience Engineer' Isaac...
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AltspaceVR Previews their SDK in New Video and Requests Collaborators

AltspaceVR is a social VR platform focused on sharing 2D and 3D web content in VR that shows great promise. In a new video, presented by Altspace's Community Manager 'Cymatic' Bruce Wooden, they take a tour of the SDK...
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