Bigscreen Inc. today launched what the studio calls a "massive" update to Bigscreen Beta, including real-time raytracing lighting effects, new environments, avatars, VR UI, and a few other bits and bobs that should also make mobile VR users happy...

The developers behind Bigscreen Beta, the social VR app that lets you stream and share your desktop's screen in VR, have been pretty quiet over the past year, although that's about to change in what studio CEO & founder...

High Fidelity, the social VR platform headed by Second Life creator Philip Rosedale, will host its first festival completely in virtual reality, which will feature contests, giveaways and live music shows in VR. Dubbed 'FUTVRE LANDS', the festival will take place November 17th,...

vTime, the company behind the titular social VR app, today announced the studio is making a strategic expansion into North America with the opening of its San Francisco office. Brian Blau, former Research Vice President at Gartner, has been tapped...

Oculus Venues, the social VR app for large-scale live event viewing, is continuing its screenings this fall with more NBA games, scary movies, and stand-up comedy nights. Check out the schedule below. Update (5:15 PM ET): An Oculus spokesperson has informed...

Mozilla's Hubs is a WebVR based VR chatroom that anyone can join on a wide range of devices just by plugging a URL into their web browser. A new update to the platform now allows instant importing of media and...

Imogen Heap, the Grammy-award winning musician, is following in the footsteps of TOKiMONSTA, Ash Koosha, and The Glitch Mob with a social VR concert experience, hosted on TheWaveVR platform soon. Starting tomorrow, August 31st, the Imogen Heap experience will kick off...

High Fidelity, the social VR platform founded by Second Life founder Philip Rosedale, today announced it's successfully closed a $35 million Series D financing round. The company says it's using the funds to continue development on its global infrastructure for VR experiences, to accelerate hiring, and...

Where Thoughts Go is a unique social network where users can share intimate thoughts and emotions in an immersive and inviting way, in the form of anonymous audio entries. The app has now launched in Early Access on the...

Oculus Venues, the social app that allows 'thousands of users' to watch live events en masse in VR, is now available on Oculus Go and Gear VR starting today. The company has also published a full list of upcoming...

With shooters like PUBG (2017) and Epic's Fortnite (2018) taking the traditional gaming world by storm as of late, many VR developers have seen the success of the battle royale games and attempted to replicate the winner-take-all game mode in virtual reality....

TheWaveVR, the studio behind the eponymous music-centric social VR platform, today announced the closure of a $6 million Series A funding round led by RRE Ventures. TheWaveVR also opened their new Los Angeles office today, where they plan to collaborate with...

vTime, the social VR platform, today announced the closure of a $7.6 million (£5.4 million) Series A funding round led by Deepbridge Capital with included investment from Liverpool, UK-based institutional loan and equity provider MSIF. vTime founder and CEO Martin Kenwright says...

Facebook Spaces, the company's social VR application which launched in beta one year ago, is getting an entirely new avatar system and customization tool, something Facebook says in a recent blog post was designed to make avatars "more expressive and...

High Fidelity, the open source VR platform founded by Second Life creator Philp Rosedale, and NeoSensory, a Palo Alto-based haptics company, announced they've partnered to create a haptic jacket dubbed the 'exoskin'. A beta version of the device, which is available...