One of VR's biggest strengths is the ability to make those at a distance feel like they're physically near each other. While this is great for visiting with friends remotely, there's a number of VR companies betting that virtual...

We were expecting to see Rec Room make its way to Google Play sometime this fall. With little fanfare though, the popular social VR platform has quietly begun early rollout for its Android app on select devices. Update (August 4th, 2021):...

Facebook Reality Labs, the company's AR/VR research and development team, announced the creation of a special product group focused on developing its future vision for "the Metaverse." Apparently Facebook is betting big on the idea too, as it hopes...

Ever since the social VR platform Rec Room launched in 2016, its avatar system has notably lacked full-body inverse kinematics like you see in its contemporary VRChat, which essentially leaves users with a stylized appearance lacking arms and legs. Now...

VRChat, the popular social VR platform, announced its secured a Series D funding round of $80 million, which brings to the startup more than five times its overall lifetime investment. The round was led by Anthos Capital, alongside participating investors...

VR Education Holdings, the company behind the social VR platform ENGAGE, announced it's raised €9 million (~$10.7 million) which will help it expand beyond the realm of immersive education & training and into a new product called ENGAGE Oasis....

Rec Room, the social VR platform, announced it has secured a $100 million financing round, bringing the company's valuation to $1.25 billion. This makes it one of the most valuable VR companies outside of platform holders Facebook, Valve, and...

At the all-digital version of SXSW 2021 today, Facebook's Mark Rabkin, VP of Oculus, showed off an upcoming new version of its avatar system on Quest. In his chat with CNET's Scott Stein, called The Quest Effect: Inside VR's Next...

The Museum of Other Realities (MOR), the immersive multiplayer art museum for virtual reality, is temporarily open to the public for free in celebration of select British XR artists, who are presenting their works via a special showcase called The Immersive...

Rec Room wants to create a functional digital economy which would let creators generate content for the social VR app and sell it to others for cash. The studio took a big step late last year by allowing its premium...

Bigscreen today announced is bringing ad-supported movies to the free social viewing platform, which will allow users to watch select films for free. Bigscreen first brought paid on-demand movie rentals to its virtual cinemas early last year, which was the result...

Bigscreen, the social viewing platform for VR headsets, just launched a number of new free TV channels including Rick and Morty, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Samurai Jack, Robot Chicken, The Venture Bros, and The Eric Andre Show. Bigscreen first added its TV...

It was only a month ago when social VR platform Rec Room reported it crossed the two million annual VR user mark, an important milestone worth celebrating along the app's five-year journey. Its developers tell Road to VR that...

Social VR platform VRChat has rolled out a premium subscription service which brings a few new extras to users looking to support the free app. Called VRChat Plus, the membership includes some neat side benefits. In its Early Supporter phase though,...

Rec Room announced back in September that it was working on a way for its users to earn real cash by creating content for the game. In a recent update, the social VR platform has now taken its first...