Building Alloverse in the open is the most exciting job we’ve ever had. Turning it into a commercial venture, however, was perhaps a few years too early — as the rest of the market has also found out. We’re very grateful to Icebreaker and others chipping in funding to get us this far, but alas,...

Have you ever tried using a VR headset on an airplane, instead of an iPad or laptop? With a few tricks, it can work really well: side-loading Android phone apps, and turning off tracking.

Hi everyone! Alloverse PM Tobes here with another update on how we do open source product development. This time I’ll be taking a closer look at the GitHub Projects beta and share some of my thoughts on it. Let’s go! First off; readers of Nevyn’s latest post will recall this illustration regarding project tracking tools:...

Community is the backbone of any successful open source project. However, growing a community from zero is not easy. There’s over 7 billion people in the world, so how do we best reach the ones that share your values? Social media can be great, but at the same time, algorithms can be moody and the...

When we incorporated Alloverse a bit over two years ago, we figured that in addition to developing the platform, we would also attempt to rent it out as a virtual meeting platform for businesses as a way to (partly) finance operations. As it turns out, however, there are a lot of virtual collaboration tools out...

I’ve been part of running two distributed startups over 9 years, plus 4 years of work across timezones at Spotify before then. The first few years were rough, and me and the orgs I were in fell into a lot of common pitfalls that took a long time to dig out of. I’ve been asked...

Nevyn Bengtsson takes over the CEO role from Julie Despraz, and Alloverse resumes exploring the concept of the metaverse with renewed vigor.

A summary of our first VR Jam to validate our Beta release! How we prepared & our key takeaways.

Our ethos at Alloverse

Alloverse, a Swedish VR startup developing an open-source platform for virtual collaboration, closed their pre-seed round with a €250k amount. Its ambitious mission of building the future of the 3D internet by keeping their technology open, and growing a global community of VR/AR enthusiasts shows that “sharing is caring” can make a difference. The idea...