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 ...

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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 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 ...

Microsoft will immediately shut down social hubs in AltspaceVR A Microsoft account will be required to use AltspaceVR starting at some point in the coming weeks. The changes are being implemented to ...

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 ...