Ever wished you could jet set around the world fast enough to ring in the New Year at a party in every timezone? Well that might not be quite possible, but VRChat is offering something close. VRChat, a social VR experience...

High Fidelity, the social VR app founded by Second Life founder Philip Rosedale, recently launched Avatar Island - the first of many future in-world stores stocked with digital assets for its users to buy. While purchasing digital items like hats and t-shirts may not...

Social VR platform TheWaveVR is hosting a concert with electronic dance music (EDM) DJ 'Kill The Noise' this Thursday, November 30th at 7PM PST (local time here). The concert will feature a mix of interactive, psychedelic 3D visuals and a live set by Kill the Noise. Known...

VR metaverse company High Fidelity recently released an update that allows users to easily deploy their own High Fidelity domains to the cloud. The project was created in collaboration with DigitalOcean, one of the largest hosting and cloud service providers in...

Facebook Spaces, the company's social VR platform available on Oculus Rift, has updated to include a new mini-game that aims to pave the way for more yet to come. Called Bait! Arctic Open, the game lets you ice fish while...

In comparison to the various PC VR platforms and even mobile VR headsets like Samsung Gear VR, PlayStation VR has been at a bit of disadvantage when it comes to the depth and breadth of social VR spaces available....

It's not every day you get to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) on a movie theater-sized screen, but the developers at the social screen mirroring VR app Bigscreen have written a handy guide on how to play...

At Connect 4 earlier this month, Oculus announced a major overhaul of their VR hub space, Oculus Home—the virtual bedrock where players find themselves when they aren't inside of a VR game or app. The new space promises to...

The team behind Bigscreen, the app that lets you view and share your desktop in social VR, today announced they've raised $11 million in Series A financing. The funding round, which comes only a year after their initial $3 million...

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 VR services, the company fell into financial difficulties in...

Rec Room (2016), the popular social VR app for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, is coming soon to PlayStation VR. Production studio Against Gravity announced Rec Room's PSVR release via the PSVR reddit page, saying that the game is slated...

VRChat, one of the earliest social VR apps, announced that they've completed a $4 million Series A investment round lead by HTC's Vive group. Joining HTC are venture capital firms Brightstone VC, GVR Fund and Rothenberg Ventures. The Series A funding round...

Facebook Spaces, the company's experiment into social VR, launched to much fanfare back in April. Following a string of updates, the app now supports PC desktop sharing, allowing friends to stream any content from their computer, opening up a...

A new paper authored by researchers from Disney Research and several universities describes a new approach to procedural speech animation based on deep learning. The system samples audio recordings of human speech and uses it to automatically generate matching...

Custom avatars in social VR add a lot of fidelity of identity expression and creative flair in applications like VRChat or High Fidelity. Morph3D is a custom avatar solution that offers a number of free avatars within VRChat, but...