Just under a year ago I was invited with my good friend Chris Long to test out a multi-user VR platform called Somnium Space. Chris and I were joined by Somnium’s founder and CEO Artur Sychov who gave us a tour of the current build and it quickly became clear that this was quite a unique take on the social VR experience. Artur’s a great guy and you can tell that he has genuine passion for what he does. There are no separate spaces/rooms/worlds in Somnium Space, instead it is

Guest post by Dr Micah Shippee “During our World History lesson that morning, Mr. Avenovich loaded up a standalone simulation so that our class could witness the discovery of King Tut’s tomb by archaeologists in Egypt in AD 1922. (The day before, we’d visited the same spot in 1334 BC and had seen Tutankhamen’s empire in all its glory.) In my next class, Biology, we traveled through a human heart and watched it pumping from the inside, just like in that old movie, Fantastic Vo

I came across Edorble last May and tested a beta desktop build. Edorble offers virtual worlds where educators and students can gather for lessons, discussions or meetings. It has a lot of cool features including voice chat that is activated when you get close to another user and the ability to import URLs for playback on built in screens. The auditorium space offers a particularly huge screen - Here's a short overview of the platform which shows it in action: It was pretty im