Social VR
The Gift Economy Dynamics of ‘Anyland’ & Social VR Anecdotes
Anyland is a social VR experience focusing on worldbuilding and avatar creation tools that allow you to create interactive experiences while in VR. They've also implemented an open sharing feature that makes it easy to collect objects from the...
Reflecting on AltspaceVR’s Technical Achievements & Social VR Lessons Learned
AltspaceVR held its final official Good Bye gathering on Thursday, August 3rd after announcing last week that they had run out of money and their investors decided to not invest any more. News of the social VR platform's closing rippled throughout...
‘Second Life’ Successor ‘Sansar’ Launches Open Beta Today, Pricing Revealed
Linden Lab, the company behind the virtual world Second Life, is today launching successor Sansar into open beta, this time built for the VR era. Though based on much of what the company has learned from running Second Life over the last...
Oculus Founder: “Should I try to save AltspaceVR?”
Following this week's news that AltspaceVR, one of the first social VR platforms, is shutting down, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who is no longer with the company, queried the community to ask if he should seek to save AtlspaceVR...
AltspaceVR, One of the First Social VR Platforms, Is Shutting Down Next Week
This evening AltspaceVR has announced it will be closing its doors for good on August 3rd. Founded in 2013, the social VR platform was one of the first to come online and connected tens of thousands of users monthly...
‘Rec Room’ Update Adds Hundreds of New Items, Increases Level Cap, Squashes Bugs
The impressively popular social VR game Rec Room recently received a ‘Fancy Pants’ update, adding more than 100 new items for players to customize their avatars. As detailed on the game’s Steam news page, the update fixes a number of...
‘Bigscreen’ Overhaul Brings High-Quality Multiplayer Video Streaming, More Users Per-room to Follow
Bigscreen is a social VR app which lets VR users bring their PC desktops into virtual reality, as if sitting at their computer next to friends or co-workers. Users inside of Bigscreen can see each other's desktops which means you...
Facebook Spaces Now Lets You Broadcast Live from VR to Any Facebook-capable Device
Facebook today announced their Oculus Rift app Spaces is getting an extra feature, bringing it closer in functionality to the rest of Facebook's near ubiquitous platform—of course with a few extra 'VR perks'. Starting today, Facebook is letting Rift owners...
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...
Valve’s New ‘SteamVR Home’ Beta May Mean You Never Leave VR
Valve's new SteamVR Home Beta just launched and it represents a vast improvement on what has gone before with fully 3D, customisable environments, a glut of new social features and a fully featured Steam interface. Will you ever want...
High Fidelity is Architecting for VR Privacy with Self-sovereign Identity
Philip Rosedale has been thinking deeply about how to architect large-scale, distributed virtual worlds after experiencing many bottlenecks as the founder of Second Life. His new metaverse venture, High Fidelity, is taking a much more distributed approach with how it's...
The Future of ‘Facebook Spaces’: Opening the Door to Third-party Developers
Facebook launched their first social VR app Spaces last month to much acclaim. It's a polished experience that does a few things very well, and has the major benefit of tapping into Facebook's existing dominance of the social graph. But...
Live Comedy Show ‘Comedy Living Room’ Coming to Altspace Thursday
Comedy Living Room, the stand-up comedy show created by Matt Lottman and Frank Chad Muniz (and literally held in a living room), is hosting its first show in VR on Thursday, April 27th at 5pm PT. The collaboration between...
Vive Users Can Join Rift Friends in ‘Facebook Spaces’ With Revive Hack
It appears that Revive is already compatible with the Facebook's new social VR app, Facebook Spaces. Revive is a popular free hack that allows Oculus content to be played on HTC Vive system.
Launched today at Facebook’s F8 opening conference,...




















