The AltspaceVR social networking platform will be sunset on March 10. The announcement came days after Microsoft announced 10,000 layoffs and changes to its "hardware portfolio". Microsoft acquired ...

Tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons have brought geeky groups of friends together for over 40 years now, but as is the case with all fun things, real life often gets in the way, and it ...

AltspaceVR, the social VR platform, has always had a unique visual approach to presenting your digital self in a virtual space, but it may not have been to everyone’s tastes. Now, the company has ...

Once the focus of a fateful redemption story, Microsoft is getting set to shut down its adoptive VR app AltspaceVR, finally putting an end to one of the earliest social VR platforms. Update (March 9th ...

Microsoft bought AltspaceVR in 2017, just as it was ready to go down, and hasn't made any significant modifications to the service until now. Kipman now refers to AltspaceVR as "a building stone for ...

So I interviewed one of the prime movers of this technology in one of his virtual rooms, in virtual space. Using the platform ­AltspaceVR, I created a room that did not exist in our real world, ...

Despite the recent announcement of its closure, AltspaceVR's virtual reality social platform looks set to remain open and supported. The platform - one of the first truly social VR spaces - closed ...