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Social Platform ‘vTime XR’ Launches on Oculus Quest

Cross-platform social app vTime XR is now available on Quest and Quest 2.

vTime XR is a free app available on a host of devices, including Oculus Rift, Windows VR headsets, Google Cardboard, Oculus Go/Gear VR, Daydream View, and AR-capable mobile devices. Starting yesterday, vTime XR is now on the Oculus Store for the Quest platform.

Unlike the free-wheeling social VR titans VRChat and Rec Room, vTime XR provides curated chatrooms and an intimate, always-seated experience for up to four users. Although decidedly more demure, vTime XR also lets you share 360 photos and watch select streaming content in the theater space launched this summer.

Earlier in the pandemic, the platform apparently struck a chord with users looking for a less complicated social outlet than others currently available in VR, with the Liverpool, UK-based developers vTime reporting a 79% increase in daily new users since lockdown measures came into place in most areas around mid-March.

With the entrance of Quest 2 and the launch of vTime XR on the platform, it’s possible the social app will see even more users looking for quiet respite for what appears to be renewed lockdown measures.

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The VR Game Launch Roundup: Time to Grapple With Zombies & Interior Design

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What a month its has been! Lots of exciting virtual reality (VR) content has launched as well as hardware surpassing expectations. So it’s time to look ahead and into the month of November. There’s a big title arriving at the end but there are still some worthwhile videogames to feast your eyes on in the next week.

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Skydance Interactive

One of the biggest videogames to arrive this year, Skydance Interactive’s The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners needs little introduction. Already available digitally on PC VR, PlayStation VR and even Oculus Quest, for those PlayStation owners who love a physical copy to collect, this survival experience will soon be able to grace their shelves.

  • Supported platforms: PlayStation VR (Physical Edition)
  • Launch date: 3rd November

Stride – Joy Way

This parkour inspired VR experience only arrived as a Steam Early Access title in September and now its ready for the big time. Hitting Oculus Store today, it’ll leave Steam EA next week adding two new modes for a total or three, Endless, Arena and Time Run. Get ready for a physical experience.

Grapple Tournament VR

Grapple Tournament – Tomorrow Games

For those who love multiplayer shooters with a unique hook, Grapple Tournament might just be what you’re looking for, hitting Steam Early Access next week. Use a grappling hook to fully utilise each level and gain advantages over opponents to win.

vTime XR – vTime

It’s time to get social on Oculus Quest with vTime XR. The app has been available for various headsets over the years and now makes its way to the standalone headset. Meet and chat with friends across platforms, share 360 photos and more.

  • Supported platforms: Oculus Quest
  • Launch date: 5th November
House Flipper VR

House Flipper VR – Frozen District

After arriving for Oculus Quest in August, House Flipper VR is now ready for its PC VR launch on Steam. Take rundown houses and spruce them up to make a profit. Unleash that inner interior designer by putting your own creative stamp on these virtual properties.

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Social VR Network VTime Is Coming To Quest Next Month

Another social VR network, vTime XR, is coming to Oculus Quest soon.

The app, which dates back to the early days of VR, is now listed in the coming soon section of the official Quest store and arrives on November 5th. We first reported that a Quest version of the experience was coming all the way back in 2019. Clearly it took a little longer than expected for the port to happen.

vTime Quest Coming Next Month

vTime takes a bit of a different approach to social VR compared to its contemporaries like AltSpace VR and Rec Room. Rather than exploring worlds together, users sit in immersive environments to chat and share content. You might, say, plan a meeting in outer space or at the bottom of the ocean. You can even upload your own 360 degree photos to visit or watch set content in virtual theaters.

vTime has been available on other platforms for some time now, including smartphone AR. It’s developed by a UK-based studio that raised $7.6 million in mid-2018 to work on its social VR and AR offerings. It has experience on its side, then, though the social VR scene is pretty well contested on Quest. Alongside other third-party applications, Facebook itself is increasing its focus on the genre with apps like Venues and Horizon. We’ll have to see if vTime can carve out a space for itself alongside stiff competition.

Will you be checking out vTime on Quest when it arrives next month? Let us know in the comments below!

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Vulnerable Children in the UK Provided Vital Social Care Through vTime XR

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There’s been a lot of news relating to virtual reality (VR) collaboration tools for enterprise of late but VR is also helping other members of society. Today, social network vTime has revealed its working with The Cornerstone Partnership to provide vital social care work with vulnerable children in the UK.

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A social enterprise focused on improving the lives of children and families, The Cornerstone Partnership is using an annexed version of vTime XR to offer services whilst the population is in lockdown.

This version still offers access to vTime XR‘s entire feature set so that members can meet privately with families, teams of people or individuals. Services can include remote supervision, virtual respite, therapeutic sessions, direct work with young people and supervised contact.

“Based on the pilot findings, we believe the tool will be particularly useful for maintaining contact and direct work with adolescents and for carers/residential workers to receive supervision and support in an environment that allows them “virtual respite” particularly where there may be placement stability concerns,” said Helen Costa, co-founder of the Cornerstone Partnership in a statement. “It may also be particularly useful as a means of managing birth family contact where there are ongoing familial or extra-familial safeguarding risks.”   

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“Virtual reality has been a lifeline for many during the pandemic and we’ve developed a licensable version of vTime XR that allows businesses from the private sector and social enterprises to use the network privately, giving them an immersive and safe meeting space that they’re able to use to stay connected,” says vTime Managing Director Clemens Wangerin. “Helping organisations such as Cornerstone to continue their vital work through our platform demonstrates the power and importance of virtual reality and the deep levels of social immersion that can be achieved through vTime XR.” 

Liverpool-based vTime has been one of the longest-running social apps for VR headsets, free for devices like Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality as well as mobile devices. For further updates for vTime XR, keep reading VRFocus.

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Social VR app vTime Embraces Augmented Reality to Become vTime XR

When it comes to social virtual reality (VR) apps one of the most successful has been vTime which initially debuted on Samsung Gear VR back in 2015. The company has just announced its latest update, adding augmented reality (AR) to the experience to make it cross-reality, whilst seeing a name change to vTime XR.

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The addition of AR into the vTime XR system means that for the first time people using VR headsets or smartphones can now connect in one virtual space. vTime XR users now have the freedom to choose the option of AR, VR or 2D magic window mode.

Just as before, VR users will be fully immersed in one of vTime XR’s destinations featuring DTS:X Game Audio support, while AR users will join in by placing a live 360-degree diorama of the destination on any real-world, flat surface. Via their phone display, AR users can interact with their friends and family, and change and scale their view of the destination. They will also have full access to vTime standard features such as avatar customization, image sharing, private messaging, and more.

“Creating the world’s first cross reality social experience was such a unique opportunity for us that we couldn’t pass it up. AR provides vTime with another immersive platform for future innovations, and vTime XR marks the next step in providing our global community with market-leading and highly-engaging communication experiences, regardless of their technology of choice,” vTime Managing Director Clemens Wangerin said in a statement.

vTime XR AR Diorma

vTime XR is available for iOS and Android for free now, with the AR mode on all supported phones compatible with Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore. The app is compatible with Google Cardboard, Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR, Windows Mixed Reality, Daydream View, and Oculus Rift.

This is just another of vTime’s advancements since the company completed a Series A funding round of $7.6 million USD earlier in 2018. vTime XR has further social VR and AR technologies currently in development when details of those are released VRFocus will let you know.

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‘vTime’ Goes XR with New Cross-platform AR Support for Apple & Android Devices

vTime, the social VR platform, today announced that users can now connect with friends through smartphone-powered augmented reality in addition to VR.


In the past, users popped into vTime using a number of devices, including Cardboard, Go, Gear VR, Rift, Vive, Windows VR, and smartphones using what the company calls a ‘magic window’. Now smartphone-clad users can also engage in chats using handheld AR thanks to Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore integration released today.

Now officially dubbed vTime XR, the free platform lets AR users join in chats by placing a live 360-degree diorama of the destination on any real-world, flat surface.

“AR users can easily interact with others, change and scale their view of the destination, as well as having full access to vTime features such as avatar customization, image sharing, private messaging, and more,” a press statement says.

The AR integration is available today on iOS and Android, offering compatibility for all supported phones capable of supporting ARKit and ARCore. (ARCore compatible devices & ARKit compatible devices)

“Creating the world’s first cross reality social experience was such a unique opportunity for us that we couldn’t pass it up. AR provides vTime with another immersive platform for future innovations, and vTime XR marks the next step in providing our global community with market-leading and highly-engaging communication experiences, regardless of their technology of choice,” vTime managing director Clemens Wangerin said.

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The app itself is organized similar to traditional social platforms—vTime XR allows you to create a profile, chat with friends and family, and even discover new friends by meeting random people online. Unlike other social VR platforms though, vTime XR puts a emphasis on seated conversation in a large variety of ‘Destinations’, which can be anything from a ride in an opulent, Victorian-style train cabin to a space station overlooking planet Earth.

For more information and links to all versions of vTime XR, head over the company’s website.

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VR Social Network vTime Adds AR Support, Quest Version Inbound

vTime AR XR smartphone

Nearly a year on from raising $7.6 million, social VR network vTime is rebranding and jumping on AR platforms.

The company today launched the AR version of its app on iOS and Android. It joins the already-available VR headset and smartphone app versions where users can make a virtual avatar and meet up. The AR version gives users a full 360-degree diorama to explore with their phones. Most importantly, all versions are compatible with each other, so a VR user can be talking with an AR user.

Take a look at a walkthrough of the AR mode below. Dioramas appear on a flat surface and can be scaled up or down. You can move your phone through the virtual space too. Virtual emojis let you express yourself without the need for VR’s hand controllers.

To coincide with the news vTime is also rebranding as vTime XR. In a press release, the company also noted that this would help it set “the stage for further social VR and AR technologies currently in development.” The company confirmed to UploadVR that the app is coming to Oculus Quest. As for Magic Leap and HoloLens, vTime Managing Director Clemens Wangerin told us that “vTime’s current focus is on consumer platforms. Ultimately, we want to be as cross-reality as we are cross-platform, so when the consumer audience is there, we will be too.”

vTime XR is free to download on pretty much ever device under the sun. That includes Android, iPhone, Google Cardboard, Oculus Go, Gear VR, Windows Mixed Reality, Daydream View, and Oculus Rift.

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