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‘Apollo 11 VR’ Studio Secures $3.3M Funding from HTC for VR Education Platform ‘Engage’

Immersive VR Education, the studio behind Apollo 11 VR, Titanic VR, and social VR education platform ENGAGE, today announced that it's secured a €3 million (~$3.3 million) investment from HTC. The investment follows a recent HTC Vive Ecosystem Conference held in...

Facebook to Start Accepting Collaboration & Productivity Apps on Oculus Quest

For many, remote work may be a new long-term reality. In that spirit, Facebook today announced that it will be introducing more collaboration and productivity apps to the Oculus Store for Quest soon. The first productivity apps are said to...

‘Bigscreen’ Expands International Availability of On-Demand Anime Films

Bigscreen, the social VR viewing platform, launched on-demand 2D and 3D video late last month. Shortly afterwards, the studio announced it had partnered with Sony Picture's anime distribution company Funimation to bring some of the biggest names in anime to its...

Reggie Watts to Kick Off Live Show Series in ‘AltspaceVR’ Starting Saturday

Comedian, lyrical wizard and beatboxer extraordinaire Reggie Watts is set to return to AltspaceVR on Saturday, May 2nd, for an inaugural live show in his newly unveiled multi-week series called 'Reinterpreted Reality'. Watts is returning to the social VR platform tomorrow,...

HTC Unveils ‘Vive Sync’ Social VR Platform for Companies Looking to Go Virtual

In the time of social distancing and the new work-at-home culture, video conferencing has undoubtedly become king. Companies looking to get a little more out of meetings though, namely the ability to virtually chat face-to-face with colleagues, might be...

John Legend, Tinashe to Play Live Shows in Social VR Platform ‘Wave’

Wave isn't your garden variety social VR platform. With an emphasis on virtual raves, replete with immersive visualizations and regular live performances, it's become the de facto concert platform for VR users. Now Wave says it's bringing more artists this...
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Mozilla Launches ‘Hubs Cloud’ on AWS, the ‘WordPress of Social Virtual Spaces’

Mozilla today announced the launch of Hubs Cloud, an AWS-hosted service that allows organizations to run their own private virtual spaces that can be customized to their needs. You may have heard of Hubs already; it's Mozilla's web-based social VR platform which...

‘Bigscreen’ Brings On-Demand Movies in New ‘Movies & Events’ Update

Bigscreen, the social VR viewing platform, introduced paid movies late last year so you could buy a ticket to join people in watching a number of 2D and 3D films at set times, working more or less like a...

Social VR App ‘VRChat’ is Seeing Record Usage Amidst the Pandemic

Social VR app VRChat is seeing a surge of users thanks to a well timed update and people around the world looking to connect with others while being asked to stay at home. VRChat is a social VR app which lets...

10 Apps to Hang Out with Friends in VR

Stuck indoors? Well, you should know that your VR headset is way more than just a Beat Saber machine. You can actually chat, play, and watch movies with your friends, almost as if the world wasn't thrust into a global...

Social AR/VR Workspace ‘Spatial’ Secures $14M Series A Financing

Spatial, a New York-based startup behind the eponymous real-time AR/VR collaboration platform, has secured $14 million in additional financing, bringing its overall funds to $22 million. The latest funding round was led by White Star Capital, iNovia and Kakao Ventures, with...

Bigscreen’s ‘VR Cinema’ Showing Interstellar, Star Trek, Transformers, & More This Month

Bigscreen has released the latest lineup of big-name movies premiering this month in its recently released 'VR Cinema' feature. A virtual reality movie theater always has felt like an obvious shoe-in for VR, a sentiment illustrated by some of our...

Microsoft’s Social VR Platform ‘AltspaceVR’ Revamped for Improved Event Hosting

Microsoft's social VR platform, AltspaceVR, has been updated with a renewed emphasis on event hosting. While it's always been possible to hop into AltspaceVR just to hang out and chat, the platform is honing in on a use-case where users come to...

‘Bigscreen’ Brings Paid Movies to Social VR Platform, Showing Select 2D & 3D Films

Bigscreen today announced it's launched a new feature called Bigscreen Cinema, which brings a paid option to its free social VR platform that will let you buy a ticket to watch select 2D and 3D films each week. Films, which...

Glue Collaboration Raises $3.85M Financing to Further Develop Business-focused Social VR Platform

Glue Collaboration, a Helsinki-based company developing remote collaboration tools for AR/VR, today announced that it has completed a new seed round of financing, raising a total of €3.5 million (~$3.85 million) to support continued growth of its business-focused social...
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