The metaverse – a virtual space in which users interact with others in a computer-generated environment – has been a hot topic since Facebook changed its name to Meta back in 2021. This signaled its ...

Say hello to avatars, 3D meetings, and a change to the Microsoft Mesh platform. Say hello to avatars, 3D meetings, and a change to the Microsoft Mesh platform. is a senior editor and author of Notepad ...

On September 12, Unity announced that beginning January 1, 2024, its pricing for developers would include a “Runtime Fee,” a new 20-cent charge to be levied every time a player installed a game after ...

After two weeks of chaos, Unity Create president Marc Whitten has a message: “I’m sorry.” Whitten’s apology, and a revised pricing policy, comes after a tumultuous period for the company, as game ...

UPDATE: A new report from Bloomberg outlines some of the changes reportedly coming to the policy. According to the report from Jason Schreier, Unity told staffers in a meeting this morning that it's ...

For years, the Unity Engine has earned goodwill from developers large and small for its royalty-free licensing structure, which meant developers incurred no extra costs based on how well a game sold.

March 23, 2023 – HTC VIVE, a leading provider of virtual reality (VR) products and platforms, has this week announced the upcoming launch of VIVERSE SDK, a collection of tools for developers, ...

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 ...

You may be feeling a sense of deja vu at news that social virtual reality platform AltspaceVR is being closed down. This almost happened once before, after its developers announced in 2017 they didn't ...

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 ...