You can read the official announcement in full from AltspaceVR here regarding this update. The announcement echoed the previous e-mail sent out to Community Helpers regarding the pausing of the Community Helper program. "Finally, we will be pausing our Community...
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Altspace is hitting ‘pause’ on the Community Helper program and 101 events
by AussieGuy92 | May 18, 2022 | AltSpace, Altspace News & Updates
Today an announcement was sent to current community helpers of Altspace to reach out and let community helpers know that on May 25th 2022 there will be changes made to the platform. Green tags will no longer be visible or togglable after this update.Discord access to...
Unpopular Opinion: Removing the commons campfire makes the platform safer
by AussieGuy92 | Feb 23, 2022 | AltSpace, Altspace News & Updates, Guides, Opinion Posts
After the recent campfire removal, there has been a lot of frustration and confusion and also the concern of people not knowing where to go to seek help. Although there are some challenges at the moment with the onboarding of new users to the platform who would...
Changes to Altspace Event API JSON
by AussieGuy92 | Feb 22, 2022 | AltSpace, Altspace News & Updates, Blog, Opinion Posts
For security and integrity purposes, I have retracted some information to protect the event information and account information associated with the event. There have been some interesting unannounced changes to the event JSON file that is generated to provide the...
AltspaceVR Social Media Cleanse
by AussieGuy92 | Feb 20, 2022 | AltSpace, Altspace News & Updates
Also in Altspace's recent news, there has been a cleansing of the AltspaceVR official accounts on app stores and on their YouTube channel. Their main banner image has also been changed which is fantastic as the image did not represent an accurate visual of the avatar...
The town hall meetup/presentation
by AussieGuy92 | Feb 19, 2022 | AltSpace, Altspace News & Updates, Guides
Disclaimer: Thoughts and opinions are my own and I do not represent Microsoft or AltspaceVR. Fair and reasonable critical analysis has been applied. You should check the official AltspaceVR Blog for official news. https://youtu.be/LbQDoboBp9w First, it wasn't a town...
17th Feb AltspaceVR Update: Goodbye Campfire & Commons Area
by AussieGuy92 | Feb 17, 2022 | AltSpace, Altspace News & Updates, Guides
Disclaimer: I do not work for Altspace/Microsoft and thoughts and opinions are my own. This post was published in wake of the announcement and does not include community helper-privledged information released at time of publish. And this article will speculate on the...
Goodbye SDK Meetups
by AussieGuy92 | Jan 27, 2022 | Altspace News & Updates, AltSpace Unity, MRE Development, MRE's
AltspaceVR admin Steven announced today that he is "stepping back" away from the SDK development to focus on other things. This means that there will not be any SDK meetups for the foreseeable future at least. But it was cleared up that MRE's will still be around and...
AltspaceVR: Recommended uploader version
by AussieGuy92 | Jan 10, 2022 | Altspace News & Updates, Bugs & Fixes
There are a few errors generated when uploading worlds using the 2.2.25 & 2.2.26 uploaders and possible issues with prior versions down to 2.19. Steven (AltVR admin) has given the recommendation to use the 2.19 build which you can find below. Recommended version:...
AltspaceVR Hotfix 4.3.9
by AussieGuy92 | Dec 9, 2021 | AltSpace, Altspace News & Updates, Bugs & Fixes
Hi Altspacers, Happy December! We released a hotfix update for AltspaceVR today. Client version 4.3.9 is available now across all devices. This update includes bug fixes and increased stability. The Mac client for this release is here: https://aka.ms/AvrMacNoAv. Bug...