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 ...

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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 ...

As part of its wider job cuts, Microsoft has laid off a number of staff involved with the metaverse, virtual, and mixed reality. Microsoft plans to sunset the social VR platform AltspaceVR, which it ...

The tech giant has decimated its Altspace, HoloLens, and mixed reality teams as the company CEO talked about making 'changes to our hardware portfolio.' Reading time 3 minutes After the dust cleared ...

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