Microsoft goes shopping and takes over AtspaceVR Do they want to dominate the Virtual Reality market in Redmond?

A while ago we talked about how Samsung bet on Virtual Reality with Windows 10 with its new helmet, the Samsung HMD Odyssey. A product that can already be reserved and that comes to fight with the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. But _where are the Redmonds in this play?_

The American company continues working diligently to pave the way in Virtual Reality and for this it has the Windows Mixed Reality program . In addition, and to make it clear what the intentions are in this regard, he is now going and buying the company specialized in Virtual Reality AltspaceVR.

Microsoft has announced this purchase during the event that is being held in San Francisco and in which we have seen how the Samsung HMD Odyssey. A purchase with which the aim is to create the first Mixed Reality community in the world, or at least that is what Alex Kipman has said.

It is a young company, because it was not in vain that it was created in 2013 thanks to a financing of 15 million dollars. It came with a goal: to create a community in Virtual Reality mode, where users could meet to play games, watch movies or just chat and talk A community with the support of over 30,000 users and an app that supported Google's Daydream, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Gear VR.

Things, however, were not going well, so much so that in July the company announced that it was closing its doors and ceasing its activity. And in those Microsoft appears, which rescues it from oblivion and also allows them to continue with the line of work they had.

Thus from AltspaceVR they assure that even though they belong to Microsoft, they will continue to work for PC and Mac at the same time that they will continue to support their app for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Daydream from Google and Samsung Gear VR.

No further details of the agreement are known. An agreement and a purchase through which It is expected that AltspaceVR's activity will be boosted in order to improve its application An acquisition that brings the company even closer to Redmond to obtain a leading role in the Virtual Reality panorama.

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