Social VR
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...
ILMxLab Executive Creative Director John Gaeta to Appear on Virtual Talk Show ‘Gunter’s Universe’ Friday
John Gaeta, often associated with his groundbreaking special effects within The Matrix trilogy, is currently working with xLab, Industrial Light & Magic's arm dedicated to interactive media experimentation. He'll be joining the live VR show Gunter's Universe as a guest...
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...
VREAL are Combining Virtual Reality Livestreaming with Social VR
I had a chance to try out VREAL's VR streaming technology a few weeks ago, and I think they've made some key technological breakthoughs that makes it possible to livestream an entire virtual reality experience. Rather than render out...
From VR LAN Parties to Business Meetings with BigScreen VR
Darshan Shankar started BigScreen VR with a deceptively simple premise of wanting to have Virtual LAN parties with other gamers in VR, but using your computer screen as a center point of conversation has catalyzed a wide range of...
Building the Metaverse at Internet-Scale with ‘High Fidelity’
Philip Rosedale has been working with virtual worlds for a long time, having founded Second Life back nearly 13 years ago in 2003. He co-founded High Fidelity in 2013, and he previously told me that he wanted to fix...
Online Harassment and Trolling in Virtual Spaces
During Google's Daydream Labs presentation at Google I/O, they discussed how to deal with different types of trolling behaviors. Suzanne Leibrick is a VR user interface and user experience designer, who has experienced different types of online harassment within...
Snapchat as an AR Company: A Look at the Experiential Age & Generation Z
Techcrunch reports that Snapchat just raised another $1.8 billion in a Series F round, and Snapchat could end up being a major player within augmented reality hardware market. Snapchat is probably considered a bit of a dark horse by...
Reminder: Reggie Watts Brings Act to AltspaceVR May 26th, RSVP Today
Didn't get the memo that the critically acclaimed comedian/beatboxer/musical magician Reggie Watts is coming to VR? There's still time to sign up for the AltspaceVR event, which is being billed as "the largest attended event in VR ever."
With the social VR...
AltspaceVR Debuts Key Tech to Massively Scale Virtual Events
AltspaceVR has today announced FrontRow, a new feature of the social VR platform which opens the door for mass-attended events in virtual reality.
Available on the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Samsung Gear VR, AltspaceVR has made it easy to jump...
Social Dynamics in AltSpaceVR After the Consumer Launch of VR
AltSpaceVR is the first cross-platform social VR application that supports both the Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive. Now that all of these VR headsets have had their consumer launch, then AltSpace VR has been one of the...
‘Project Alice’ Tracks Real Objects to Enhance Multi-user VR Experiences
Noitom, a leading mo-cap company, are using their affinity with capturing reality by fusing it with virtual reality to create a multi-user mixed reality experience that allows users to interact in VR and others using real world objects. Noitom calls...
Open vs Closed Metaverse: Project Sansar & The New Experiential Age
Linden Lab's Second Life has been one of the largest and most successful virtual world ecosystems with nearly 13 years of existence. But Linden Lab recognized that the infrastructure and foundations of Second Life was not going to be...



















