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CES 2015: AltspaceVR CEO Eric Romo Talks Social VR at Intel’s Booth
We had a chance to talk shop with the minds behind AltspaceVR, a yet unreleased social platform for virtual reality, located at the Intel booth at CES 2015 in Las Vegas. Executive Editor and intrepid...
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Come One, Come All: ‘Convrge’ Hosting Another VR Dance Party Saturday,...
Convrge, a social virtual reality environment for the Oculus Rift DK2, is once again opening its doors for some virtual ‘dancing’ (as much dancing as you can do with headtracking alone). The...
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Why Social Virtual Reality is Worth Celebrating
When I opened my eyes I suddenly found myself in an art gallery that had been transformed into a full-blown party with thumping music, bright red helium balloons pulling at the furniture, and a...
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Convrge Adds Shared Movie Screen and New Area, ‘Theater Grand Opening’ Event...
Convrge, a social VR platform for the Oculus Rift, has been steadily building out its virtual space to enable multiplayer VR experiences. The latest version of the platform adds a shared movie screen...
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Convrge Holding Leonard Nimoy Tribute Event, Sunday 3pm EST
Convrge, the in-development social VR platform for Oculus Rift, will be hosting a Leonard Nimoy Tribute Event this Sunday. The Convrge team sent out the event announcement via email earlier today: Hey...
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HTC Vive Support Coming to Altspace’s Social VR Platform, Experimentation...
I recently sat down with “Cymatic” Bruce Wooden, Developer & Community Relations Manager at AltspaceVR, a social virtual reality space that allows users to connect and communicate with voice chat...
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‘Oculus Social SDK’ Slips Out in Connect 2 Schedule
Details of Oculus’ second ‘Connect’ VR developer conference are now out and hints at a new ‘Social SDK’ which it’s presumed is designed to help developers to create applications designed to being...
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Oculus Social Alpha Now Available Worldwide
Oculus quietly released their first foray into virtual reality interaction last week when Oculus Social appeared for the Gear VR. However, the initial release was region locked to North America. Oculus...
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First Look: ‘vTime’ is a “Sociable Network” for Mobile VR, Available Today on...
Starship, a Liverpool-based digital entertainment studio, has today released vTime on the Gear VR store, the mobile platform’s latest social VR app. I got a chance to check out vTime’s alpha and sat...
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AltspaceVR is Now Available for Gear VR
Social VR platform AltspaceVR today announced the general release of their Gear VR app—now making their software cross-compatible with both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Not too long ago, AltspaceVR only...
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‘vTime’ Becomes First Social VR App on Google Cardboard
Starship Group, the makers of the social app vTime, today announced early access release of their Google Cardboard app, which allows anyone—provided you own one of the supported Android phone models—to...
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Figuring Out Social VR is Key to Mainstream Adoption
Let’s face it, if there is one VR category that has the most potential, the most controversy, and admittedly the most goofiness, it’s social VR. Guest article by Ben Smith Ben is an active investor in...
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AltspaceVR’s New Slack Integration Makes Team Meetings in Virtual Reality a Snap
This week AltspaceVR launched a Slack integration which makes it easy to quickly pull team members into a virtual reality meeting space for some real-time communication. At SVVR 2016 this week,...
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Watch: ‘High Fidelity’ Live Demo at SVVR 2016, Beta Client Access Available Now
High Fidelity describes itself as an “open source, shared Virtual Reality” application which gives people a virtual platform to build whatever universe they want and share it with others. The app just...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Facebook Study Finds Introverts Feel More Comfortable with VR Social Interaction
A recent study by Facebook IQ, in which people completed one-on-one conversations in VR, concluded that most people respond positively, and introverts in particular feel more comfortable. Facebook IQ...
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HTC Leads $4M Series A Investment in Social VR Platform ‘VRChat’
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...
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New ‘High Fidelity’ Partnership Makes it Easier to Host Your Own Virtual World
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...
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