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 ...

Bottom line: AltspaceVR parent company Microsoft has started rolling out changes to the platform that will effectively destroy the community users have created. The changes are partially under the ...

AltspaceVR has had a few close calls over the years, but the company that built virtual social spaces well before “metaverse” was a household word is shuttering for good this time. After announcing ...

You’ll also need a Microsoft Account for AltspaceVR soon You’ll also need a Microsoft Account for AltspaceVR soon is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, ...

Microsoft is making a handful of changes to AltspaceVR to combat harassment within the virtual reality app. As of today, the company has removed the Campfire, News and Entertainment Commons social ...

Mix Master Mike will perform live onstage at a club in LA while being simultaneously live as a hologram in AltspaceVR, making it a first for live music and giving us a glimpse of things to come. The ...

Microsoft is looking to make good use of its social VR platform AltspaceVR next week as it hosts its first Ignite keynote in virtual reality. Alex Kipman, technical fellow at Microsoft’s AI and Mixed ...

Some of Microsoft's developer teams involved with the company's mixed reality and augmented reality work have been eliminated. Those changes, coming with Microsoft's planned 10,000 job cuts, suggest a ...

After selling his social virtual reality startup to Microsoft in October, Eric Romo, the co-founder of AltspaceVR, is joining the competing social VR team at Facebook as its product director, where he ...