Social Virtual Reality
Meet Bill Nye in VR & ‘TheWaveVR’ Concert, Two Virtual Events Worth Attending This Wednesday
This Wednesday, you can fill up your brain with knowledge in a unique opportunity to meet Bill Nye 'the Science Guy' in the digital flesh, and then melt your brain immediately afterwards at a VR concert, where crowds can interact...
Volkswagen Group is Building VR Apps to Help Employees Collaborate Across the Globe
Volkswagen Group, the multi-brand automotive company, has developed VR apps to make long-distance collaboration in production and logistics an easier task. Using the HTC Vive, the company has created what it calls the Volkswagen Digital Reality Hub Group, a VR platform...
Deepening Social Presence with SMI Eye Tracking
At GDC this year, SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) showed a couple of new eye tracking demos at Valve's booth. They added eye tracking to avatars in the social VR experiences of Pluto VR and Rec Room, which provided an amazing...
‘Rec Room’ Studio Raises $5M “to continue to build the future of Social VR”
Seattle-based VR studio Against Gravity has today announced they have received $5M in seed funding to continue to build Rec Room, the studio's social VR platform.
Only launching last summer, the app has quickly become a success story, winning over fans on both Steam and Oculus Home with...
Meet Drew Carey, Reggie Watts, Janeane Garofalo, and Many More This Week in AltspaceVR
Getting into a live show with your favorite celebrity isn't that tough if you live in the entertainment epicenters of L.A. or New York, but this week AltspaceVR, the social VR platform, is bringing the entertainers to you. Like all AltspaceVR performances...
Video: Watch Mark Zuckerberg Demo Facebook’s Latest Social VR Prototype
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Oculus Connect, the company's annual developer conference, to show off Facebook's latest social VR prototype.
Zuckerberg toured the newest features of the app including more lifelike avatars complete with facial expressions triggered...
Oculus Wants You to Talk With ‘Parties’ and Play in ‘Rooms’
Remember that friends list you made back when you got your Samsung Gear VR or Oculus Rift? Yeah. It's been pretty useless. Today Oculus announced that they'll soon be turning on social with the help of two new social...
Facebook Shows Updated Social VR Prototype That Dials Into the Real World – Breaking
Facebook is plugging away on creating their perfect VR app that promises to integrate the social platform into 3D virtual worlds. Last we saw of the prototype in April that introduced a number of features, all of which hinge on Touch,...
Social VR Platform ‘VRChat’ Raises $1.2M Seed Funding
VRChat, a social VR platform that allows users to create, publish, and explore VR worlds, have announced a $1.2 million seed investment round. Investors include HTC, Rothenberg Ventures, GREE VR Capital, and Brightstone Venture Capital.
Supporting Oculus Rift and HTC...
‘vTime’ Releases New Avatar Customization Tool
vTime, the social VR platform from Starship Group, today released an update to their avatar creation tool that now gives users access to thousands of avatar customization options, promising to "let you reflect more of yourself inside vTime." The new...
‘Casino VR’ Now Offers In-App Chip Purchases
Casino VR, a free multiplayer poker game for Gear VR and Oculus Rift, now allows you to buy chips to fuel your need for table dominance. And no, you can't spend them (yet).
Users who've signed up with a valid email...
Social Dynamics Within Sony’s PlayStation VR Social VR Experiments
At GDC this year, Sony revealed some of their first experiments into social VR with a four-person demo that was showing at their press event. The avatars looked like South Park characters, and the thumbs up or down gestures...
Watch Rick and Morty Creator Justin Roiland Sketching and Riffing in VR
Social platform AltspaceVR welcomed voice actor and creator of cult show Rick and Morty, Justin Roiland who joined a virtual audience inside the social VR platform where he drew, riffed and generally entertained everyone.
Justin Roiland is one of those...
Seinfeld’s Apartment Could be Your Next Social VR Hangout
The seminal comedy show Seinfeld has formed the basis of inspiration for the latest social VR experience as the famous apartment from the long-running show has been rebuilt in VR for you to enjoy immersively, along with a bunch...
Social App ‘vTime’ Now Available for Oculus Rift
vTime, the social VR app known for recently connecting Gear VR and Google Cardboard users, today announced support for the Oculus Rift in their cross-platform online app. Found in the 'Early Access' category of Oculus Home, vTime comes alongside AltspaceVR as the first...



















