Open Source Linux Virtual Reality Software
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View 4 business solutionsBrowse free open source Virtual Reality software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Virtual Reality software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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ALVR - Air Light VR
Stream VR games from your PC to your headset via Wi-Fi
ALVR (Air Light VR) is an open-source system that enables wireless virtual reality streaming by transmitting VR content from a PC to a standalone headset over a network connection. It allows users to run PC-based VR applications while using devices such as standalone headsets, effectively bridging the gap between high-performance desktop VR and portable hardware. The system works by encoding video output from the PC, streaming it over Wi-Fi, and decoding it on the headset in real time, while also transmitting input data such as head tracking and controller movements back to the PC. ALVR supports low-latency streaming through optimized encoding techniques and network configurations, making it suitable for interactive VR experiences. It also includes customizable settings for bitrate, resolution, and performance tuning, allowing users to balance quality and responsiveness. The project is actively developed and supports multiple platforms, including Windows and Linux. -
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OpenVR SDK
API and runtime that allows access to VR hardware
OpenVR is an API and runtime that allows access to VR hardware from multiple vendors without requiring that applications have specific knowledge of the hardware they are targeting. This repository is an SDK that contains the API and samples. The runtime is under SteamVR in Tools on Steam. The OpenVR API provides a game with a way to interact with Virtual Reality displays without relying on a specific hardware vendor's SDK. It can be updated independently of the game to add support for new hardware or software updates. This means that you can access the position of the headset using only one API call and it works for all headset brands (Oculus, Mixed Reality, Vive, etc)! The API is implemented as a set of C++ interface classes full of pure virtual functions. When an application initializes the system it will return the interface that matches the header in the SDK used by that application. -
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AviTab
X-Plane plugin that displays a tablet to aid VR usage
AviTab is a plugin for the X-Plane flight simulator. It displays a tablet-like computer with a few apps in the cockpit. It is mainly used for flying in virtual reality. When flying in a simulator, one often needs to look up details in PDF charts, plane manuals, checklists or other documents. Using a PDF reader breaks the immersion because the virtual aviator either has to take off of their HMD or use other tools that can move windows into VR. AviTab tries to solve this problem by offering a PDF reader inside a native plugin for X-Plane. Using a plugin also opens possibilities for more apps inside the tablet, for example, to display information about the plane status or aid in navigation. When hovering over the edges of the tablet from a short distance, X-Plane will display green bars around the tablet. The upper bar can be used to grab the window and move it around inside the cockpit. -
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Crazy Eddies GUI System (CEGUI)
A fast, powerful and adaptable GUI solution
Crazy Eddie's GUI (CEGUI) system is a graphical user interface C++ library. It was designed particularly for the needs of videogames, but the library is usable for non-game tasks, such as any other type of applications (rendering/visualisation/virtual reality) and tools. It is designed for user flexibility in look-and-feel, as well as being adaptable to the user's choice in tools and operating systems. Established in 2003, CEGUI sees continual, active development and remains one of the most powerful and most popular options for developers requiring an adaptable and efficient GUI solution. CEGUI is fully supported by the developers that created - and continue to develop - the library, and who are accessible via the project's dedicated internet forums and IRC channel. For more information, more screenshots and for news, check out out our homepage: http://cegui.org.uk The repository is now at bitbucket (including our issue/bug tracker): https://bitbucket.org/cegui -
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Radegast
Lightweight client for connecting to Second Life and OpenSim
Radegast is a virtual world client compatible with Second Life and OpenSimulator. Its main purpose is to provide an alternative client to Linden Lab-derived virtual world viewers. There is a strong focus on accessibility and non-3D interaction. Given the current nature of changes in Second Life, I felt it was prudent to take on another abandoned text-focused viewer. Introducing MEGAbolt, a fork of the METAbolt viewer which was abandoned by its author almost eight years ago. Keep in mind, this is the first version and much has changed under the hood. It has been brought up to date and only supports Windows x64 currently and is built against the .NET 5 platform. Like Radegast, it utilizes the LibreMetaverse library and now shares much of the same code as Radegast does, which should make maintaining both viewers more manageable. -
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OpenXR SDK
Generated headers and sources for OpenXR loader
OpenXR is a royalty-free, open standard that provides high-performance access to Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), collectively known as XR, platforms and devices. This repository contains OpenXR headers, as well as source code and build scripts for the OpenXR loader. It contains all generated source files and headers pre-generated for minimum dependencies. The OpenXR 1.0 specification is free for anyone to download, review and comment. Without a cross-platform standard, VR and AR applications and engines must use each platform’s proprietary APIs. New input devices need customized driver integration. OpenXR provides cross-platform, high-performance access directly into diverse XR device runtimes across multiple platforms. OpenXR enables applications and engines, including WebXR, to run on any system that exposes the OpenXR APIs. -
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CoffeeMud
Full featured MUD server with all the trimmings.
CoffeeMud is a text-based virtual reality game engine (a MUD). It is a mature, full-featured Java codebase. It includes web (HTTP) and email (SMTP) servers, chat (IMC2 and I3) and web clients, and supports ANSI, MXP, and MSP. -
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Open Brush
Open Brush is the community led successor to Tilt Brush!
Open Brush lets you paint in 3D space with virtual reality. Unleash your creativity with three-dimensional brush strokes, choosing from a wide palette, of brushes, including stars, light, and even fire. Your room is your canvas. Your palette is your imagination. The possibilities are endless. Open Brush is a derivative made from the open source code of Tilt Brush, a room-scale 3D-painting virtual-reality application available from Google, originally developed by Skillman & Hackett. OpenBrush strives to be an open source tool to help everyone create their own art. We believe in the preservation of art, and the freedom of artists. At our core, we are community led and driven, and while there may be a small core team behind OpenBrush, it would not be possible without our community. -
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HadesVR
The "DIY" SteamVR compatible VR setup made for tinkerers
HadesVR is a SteamVR compatible VR setup made for tinkerers. The setup includes DIY controllers that are capable of emulating HTC vive wands or most aspects of the Valve Index Knuckles controllers (including finger tracking!). It also includes tracking electronics for a Headset, including an integrated wireless receiver to receive the controllers' data. There's also custom controller hardware like 3d printable shells (still a bit of a WIP) with their respective custom PCBs to build your own Knuckles controllers. The SteamVR driver used to be based on TrueOpenVR but it's modified so heavily I'm making it its own thing. This driver also uses PSMoveService (for now at least) for the positional tracking of HMD and controllers, using ping pong balls and different colors of LED's. The headset connects to the PC and receives rotation and button data from both controllers through RF, while the tracking is done outside-in (base stations) using Playstation Move Cameras and PSMoveService. -
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OpenXR SDK Sources Project
Sources for OpenXR loader, basic API layers, and example code
This repository contains source code and build scripts for implementations of the OpenXR loader, validation layers, and code samples. OpenXR is a royalty-free, open standard that provides high-performance access to Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), collectively known as XR platforms and devices. Without a cross-platform standard, VR and AR applications and engines must use each platform’s proprietary APIs. New input devices need customized driver integration. OpenXR provides cross-platform, high-performance access directly into diverse XR device runtimes across multiple platforms. OpenXR enables applications and engines, including WebXR, to run on any system that exposes the OpenXR APIs. -
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Jahshaka
Cross platform Virtual Reality authoring and playback
Jahshaka is bringing you the future of immersive digital content creation. It combines a virtual desktop with a powerful asset management system and a immersive 3d content creation engine with full VR support. Jahshaka is free software, developed as an open source project and is designed to run on Windows, OsX and Linux. -
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Jahshaka Studio
virtual reality authoring toolkit created by artists, for artists
Welcome to Jahshaka, the virtual reality authoring toolkit that was created by artists, for artists. The only way to build and publish virtual worlds. -
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A-Frame
A web framework for building virtual reality experiences
A-Frame is an open source web framework for building virtual reality experiences. With A-Frame you can create WebVR with HTML and entity-component works on Vive, Rift, Daydream and more. A-Frame simplifies virtual reality by handling the required 3D and WebVR boilerplate to get you running on platforms like mobile, desktop, Vive, and Rift. Because it can be used from HTML, just about everyone can use it. A-Frame is a thin yet powerful framework on top of three.js. While A-Frame is completely accessible from HTML, developers can also make full use of JavaScript, DOM APIs, three.js, WebVR, and WebGL. -
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Google Cardboard XR Plugin for Unity
Google Cardboard XR plugin for Unity
This SDK provides everything you need to create your own Virtual Reality (VR) experiences for Google Cardboard in Unity 2019.4.25f1 or later. It supports essential VR features, such as motion tracking, stereoscopic rendering, and user interaction via the viewer button. With these capabilities, you can build entirely new VR experiences, or enhance existing apps with VR capabilities. You can use the Cardboard SDK to turn a smartphone into a VR platform. A smartphone can display 3D scenes with stereoscopic rendering, track and react to head movements, and interact with apps by detecting when the user presses the viewer button. The Unity XR Plugin Management API lets you turn VR mode on or off for the Google Cardboard XR Plugin for Unity. The VrMode scene in HelloCardboard sample shows basic usage of the aforementioned API. -
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ViRe
A open-source VR mocap studio built in Unity
ViRe is an open-source VR mocap studio built in Unity. ViRe can be used for anyone who wants to record motion, but cannot afford a huge and expensive motion capture studio. All you need is a simple VR Setup. ViRe runs on top of SteamVR, the default asset to support all kinds of VR Headsets. It supports the tracking of the headset and both hand controllers. We are working on support for additional body trackers, and for every place you do not have a tracker, procedural bone movement will help out. -
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ipyvolume
3d plotting for Python in the Jupyter notebook
3d plotting for Python in the Jupyter notebook based on IPython widgets using WebGL. Create quiver plots (like scatter, but with an arrow pointing in a particular direction). Render in the Jupyter notebook, or create a standalone html page (or snippet to embed in your page). Render in stereo, for virtual reality with Google Cardboard. Animate in d3 style, for instance, if the x coordinates or color of a scatter plots changes. Animations / sequences, all scatter/quiver plot properties can be a list of arrays, which can represent time snapshots. -
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Platform Independent Virtual Reality Client and Server. Come to http://www.vrspace.org/ for more information and demo.
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Bullet
JVM Bullet Physics SDK
Bullet is real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc. Jvm port of Bullet, by Erwin Coumans. Take a look at the tests to see what has been ported and tested to be working. A high-end desktop GPU, such as an AMD Radeon 7970 or NVIDIA GTX 680 or better. We succesfully tested the software under Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. The software currently doesn't work on OpenCL CPU devices. It might run on a laptop GPU but performance will not likely be very good. Note that often an OpenCL drivers fails to compile a kernel. Some unit tests exist to track down the issue, but more work is required to cover all OpenCL kernels. -
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OutcropVR
See geologic outcrops in virtual reality
OutcropVR is a toolkit for geologists. One aspect of OutcropVR is of building a scene to view in VR. OutcropVR supports creation of real-world landscape data from coordinates or georeferenced models, as well as localization from UTM values. The other aspect is the "game" mode tools. You can fly around your favorite outcrops and see unique angles that are impossible or difficult to get in real life. With the laser pointer tool, you can create lines and planes that then display the trend/plunge or strike/dip. Use the Unity menu to select Tools/Localize Photogrammetry Model from UTM. This function takes in a photogrammetry .obj file that is in UTM coordinates and converts it into smaller numbers so that Unity can work with it. If a texture file is supplied as well, it will be mapped onto the object. -
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Simula
Linux VR Desktop
Simula is a virtual reality (VR) window manager and desktop environment for Linux, built atop the Godot engine. It provides a VR-based Linux desktop experience, enabling productive workflows in AR/VR with immersive window management. A common objection to the viability of VR Desktop is that it exhibits poor text quality; however, with our low pass filter, Simula has taken special care to make text quality as clear as possible. The left image is a VR terminal without our filter applied; the right is the same image with our filter applied. Compared to other VR Desktops, Simula allows for longer sessions without uncomfortable eye strain. In Simula, VR Windows become “active” once you look at them. Active windows receive (i) typing events from the keyboard and (ii) cursor events from any mouse movement. -
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Sol-R
Open-source CUDA/OpenCL speed of light ray-tracer
Sol-R is a CUDA/OpenCL-based real-time ray-tracer compatible with Oculus Rift DK1, Kinect, Razor Hydra and Leap Motion devices. Sol-R was written as a hobby project in order to understand and learn more about CUDA and OpenCL. Most of the code was written at night and during weekends, meaning that it's probably not the best quality ever. The idea was to produce a Ray-Tracer that has its own "personality". Most of the code does not rely on any literature about ray-tracing, but more on a naive approach of what rays could be used for. The idea was not to produce a physically based ray-tracer, but a simple engine that could produce cool images interactively. Take it for what it is! Sol-R is a lot of fun to play with if you like coding computer-generated images. -
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The Cognitive3D SDK for Unity
Cognitive3D SDK for Unity, analytics for VR/AR/MR
The most powerful spatial analytics platform to help you understand user behavior within immersive experiences. Identify exactly what users are paying attention to and in what order. Measure training performance and outcomes with employees. Evaluate compliance to improve safety, reduce injury and errors. Collect distributed insights for CPG, AEC and retail environments. Prove out your hypotheses by conducting experiments in VR. Receive scientific accuracy in captured eye-tracking, fixations and biometrics.. Improve product development workflows to enable rapid insights. This SDK allows you to integrate your Unity games with Cognitive3D, which provides analytics and insights about your Unity project. In addition, Cognitive3D empowers you to take actions that will improve users' engagement with your experience. -
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Twometer VR
Low budget open-source Virtual Reality controllers
TwometerVR is an open-source alternative to commercial VR hand/body tracking systems. It's primarily intended for those who have VR headsets such as the Oculus DK2 that don't include controllers. It is a low-cost alternative to expensive commercial devices such as the PS Move or Oculus Touch system. An open-source alternative to commercial hand trackers such as Oculus Touch or PS Move, because Virtual Reality should not be expensive. Although there is currently no implementation of full-body-tracking, the system is technically fully capable of supporting it. -
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Vircadia
Vircadia open source metaverse platform
Vircadia is a full coverage ecosystem of open source applications that enable individuals and organizations to deploy their own virtual world solutions. Vircadia’s worlds are among the largest with 16km³ of build space. All building and scripting of your world happens in real-time. This means that building is quick, efficient, and collaborative. Vircadia worlds can be accessed from Windows, Linux, and MacOS. Android, iOS, and Quest 2 support is coming soon. Unlike most platforms, Vircadia is 100% open source with the full software stack necessary for a premium metaverse experience licensed as Apache 2.0. Because of this, all aspects of the project can be customized for your use case. Vircadia consists of many projects and codebases with its unifying structure's goal being a decentralized metaverse. -
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simbol
Communications platform WebXR sites with self-sovereign identity
Easily create social virtual worlds that anyone can interact with using Virtual Personas, a global identity system where people own their identities. Simbol accepts several configuration parameters. New worlds await us with VR and AR. A flourishing of creativity. This must happen without conceding in user experience and with an honest contract between creators and consumers regarding their data. Simbol is researching to accomplish these goals and broadcasting accomplishments made by the community via a podcast, blog and newsletter. Currently, simbol is dependent on several third-party libraries. You can check out the API in our JSDoc.
