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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is narrowing its metaverse ambitions. In a blog post spotted by VentureBeat (via The Verge), the company announced it would shut down AltspaceVR, the social virtual reality platform the ...

The MR (Mixed Reality) Division of Microsoft's Cloud and AI Group has announced that it will end the provision of the social VR platform ' AltspaceVR ' on March 10, 2023. It is also reported that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the coolest ideas to take shape during the early days of Xbox Live was 1 vs. 100, a real-time game show that ran on a weekly basis via the online Xbox space. It was a concept ahead of its time ...