AltspaceVR being shut down by Microsoft
- Written by: Ross Cross
- Category: Business
AltSpaceVR is one of the original social VR platforms, founded in 2013 and launched in 2015. The company was acquired by Microsoft in 2017 and became a part of their Mixed Reality division. Microsoft has announced wide-scale layoffs across their Mixed Reality division and it looks like AltspaceVR may have been a casualty.
CES 2023 Round up - PSVR2 Edition
- Written by: Ross Cross
- Category: Hardware
The final day of CES 2023 has come and gone, and we here at VRCrashed would like to provide our readers with a series of concise recaps to make sure you didn't miss anything in the whirlwind! We start with the PSVR 2, read on.
New HTC Headset name and price uncovered? Vive XR Elite details found on HTC Korea's web cache
- Written by: Ross Cross
- Category: Hardware
The name, price, and final product image seem to have been uncovered via a google webcache of HTC Korea's Vive product page.
Freeaim VR Shoes - an interesting alternative to VR treadmills
- Written by: Ross Cross
- Category: Hardware
A new contender for alternative modes of infinite movement in VR has arisen. Freeaim VR shoes promise omnidirectional continuous locomotion in a small space.
Somnium Space Reveals open source VR headset Dev Kit - will show at CES 2023
- Written by: Ross Cross
- Category: Hardware
Somnium Space, the developers of a blockchain-based VR platform, have revealed the details of their open source VR headset Dev Kit - the Somnium VR1.
Meta has allowed access to a 7% GPU performance increase to developers via increased GPU clock frequency
- Written by: Ross Cross
- Category: Hardware
Meta has announced a substantial performance increase is being made available to it's Quest 2 developer community.
Spatial Ops enters open beta and Racket Club announced - New titles from Resolution Games
- Written by: Ross Cross
- Category: Software
Resolution Games recently hosted a Showcase 2022 event where they made some announcements. Resolution Games are the studio behind VR hits like Demeo, Bait!, and Ultramechs.
META Publishes Trio of Articles delving into the future of their VR technologies
- Written by: Ross Cross
- Category: Business
December 19 2022 - META has published 3 new long form articles delving deep into their current and future VR technologies, along with some of the design philosophy and reasoning for heading in the direction they are.
John Carmack has resigned from Meta - will focus his time on AI startup Keen Technologies Ltd.
- Written by: Ross Cross
- Category: Business
John Carmack has officially announced his resignation from Meta today, after over a decade in with Oculus, now Meta.