Open Source Linux VR Development Software
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View 2 business solutionsBrowse free open source VR Development software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source VR Development software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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REFramework
Scripting platform, modding framework and VR support for RE Engine
A mod framework, scripting platform, and modding tool for RE Engine games. Inspired by and uses code from Kanan. Supports Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil 7, Resident Evil Village, Devil May Cry 5, Monster Hunter Rise. Lua Scripting API (All games), VR, Generic 6DOF VR support for all games, motion controls for RE2/RE3 (RE7 and RE8 motion controls are still WIP!), first person (RE2, RE3), free camera (All games), scene timescale (All games), manual flashlight (RE2, RE3, RE8), FOV slider & vignette disabler (RE2, RE3, RE8). -
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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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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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LÖVR
Lua Virtual Reality engine
An open-source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences. You can use LÖVR to easily create VR experiences without much setup or programming experience. The framework is tiny, fast, open-source, and supports lots of different platforms and devices. Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, WebXR. Supports Vive/Index, Oculus Rift/Quest, Pico, Windows MR, and has a VR simulator. Simple VR scenes can be created in just a few lines of Lua. Writen in C99 and scripted with LuaJIT, includes optimized single-pass stereo rendering. Out of the box you get fast stereo rendering, VR controllers, hand tracking, haptics, spatial audio, 3D physics, PBR materials, SDF fonts, multiplayer, and more. The entire engine is 1MB and runs on LuaJIT, the fastest JIT compiler round these parts. Projects are just folders with scripts and assets in them, organized however you want. -
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Networked-Aframe
Web framework for building multi-user virtual reality experiences
Multi-user VR on the Web. A framework for writing multi-user VR apps in HTML and JS. Built on top of A-Frame. Follow the NAF Getting Started tutorial to build your own example from scratch, including setting up a local server. Networked-Aframe works by syncing entities and their components to connected users. To connect to a room you need to add the networked-scene component to the a-scene element. For an entity to be synced, add the networked component to it. By default the position and rotation components are synced, but if you want to sync other components or child components you need to define a schema. For more advanced control over the network messages see the sections on Broadcasting Custom Messages and Options. Create an instance of a template to be synced across clients. The position and rotation will be synced by default. The buffered-interpolation is added to allow for less network updates while keeping smooth motion. -
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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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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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Pumkin's Avatar Tools
A toolbox for easily setting up VRChat avatars in Unity
An editor script that adds tools to help you setup avatars faster and easier. It includes a component copier that makes it a lot easier to reimport your avatars, and tools to make your thumbnails nicer. To install these tools grab the .unitypackage from releases then simply import it into your unity project. Make sure to delete any older versions of Pumkin Tools from your project before importing. Also make sure that you are using the correct version of Unity and the latest version of VRChat SDK2 or SDK3. Pumkin's Avatar Tools is a Unity editor script that provides a set of tools to automate and simplify certain avatar setup tasks within Unity. -
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ApertusVR
Virtual Reality software library
The main feature of ApertusVR is the so called "Distributed Plugin-in Mechanism" which means that not only humans could be involved in a multi-user virtual reality scene but any element of the Internet of Things like hardware, software, robot or any kind of smart device. ApertusCore is a programming library written in C++11, that fulfills modern software requirements as it is modular, embeddable, platform-independent, and easily configurable. It contains basic software interfaces and modules for logging, event-handling, and for loading plugins and configurations. It is also responsible for distributed data synchronization. ApertusVR is a set of plugins that extend ApertusCore with XR (AR/VR/MR) capabilities, which help to integrate XR technologies into new/existing developments, products rapidly. It creates a new abstraction layer over the hardware vendors in order to use different display and control devices in any product or service. -
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CosmoScout VR
Virtual universe which lets you explore & analyze planetary datasets
A virtual universe which lets you explore, analyze and present huge planetary datasets and large simulation data in real-time. CosmoScout VR is a modular virtual universe developed at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It lets you explore, analyze and present huge planetary data sets and large simulation data in real-time. The software can be built on Linux (gcc or clang) and Windows (msvc). Nearly all dependencies are included as git submodules, please refer to the documentation in order to get started. Completely written in JavaScript with help of the Chromium Embedded Framework. Physically-based rendering of 3D satellites (with csp-satellites). Rendering of highly detailed level-of-detail planets based on WebMapServices (with csp-lod-bodies). Rendering of configurable atmospheres (Mie- and Rayleigh-scattering) around planets (with csp-atmospheres). -
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Exokit
Native VR/AR/XR engine for JavaScript
This project enables developers to build XR experiences using the same code that runs on the web. Exokit engine is written on top of Node and emulates a web browser, providing native hooks for WebGL, WebXR, WebAudio, and other APIs used in immersive experiences. The future is immersive. The web is the best application platform. Javascript is the best ecosystem. It's not possible to do both 2D and 3D well. We don't do 2D. We can use an external 2D browser. Exokit empowers and connect apps, even (especially) if they aren't designed to cooperate. Apps should run in "reality tabs", layers of reality that blend together. Exokit is a Javascript Node.js module. C++ bindings hook into WebGL, WebXR, Magic Leap, Leap Motion, and various other device APIs. Exokit runs on Windows, macOS, Linux (x64), Linux (ARM64), and Magic Leap (ARM64). -
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Hover UI Kit
Create beautiful user interfaces for immersive VR/AR experiences
Hover UI Kit is a tool for creating beautiful, customizable, dynamic user interfaces. All interface interactions utilize a simple and consistent mechanism, the "hover", which users can perform with any 3D input device. These interfaces are designed specifically for VR/AR applications, addressing the complex UX challenges of these immersive environments. Virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) applications must provide ways for users to interact -- to select items, to move them, to modify them, to trigger actions, to control their virtual world. The user experience (UX) can become increasingly complex as new features are introduced, leading to a long list of application-specific interactions that can conflict with each other and can be difficult for users to learn. Hover UI Kit is built to solve this problem. It is a tool for creating beautiful, customizable, dynamic user interfaces. -
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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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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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AI4U
Multi-engine plugin to specify agents with reinforcement learning
AI4U is a multi-engine plugin (Godot and Unity) that allows you to design Non-Player Characters (NPCs) of games using an agent abstraction. In addition, AI4U has a low-level API that allows you to connect the agent to any algorithm made available in Python by the reinforcement learning community specifically and by the Artificial Intelligence community in general. Reinforcement learning promises to overcome traditional navigation mesh mechanisms in games and to provide more autonomous characters. AI4U can be integrated into Imitation Learning through Behavioral Cloning or Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning present on stable-baslines. Train using multiple concurrent Unity/Godot environment instances. Unity/Godot environment partial control from Python. Wrap Unity/Godot learning environments as a gym. -
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StereoKit
An easy-to-use mixed reality library for building VR applications
StereoKit is an easy-to-use open source mixed reality library for building HoloLens and VR applications with C# and OpenXR! Inspired by libraries like XNA and Processing, StereoKit is meant to be fun to use and easy to develop with, yet still quite capable of creating professional and business-ready software. HoloLens 2, Oculus Quest, Windows Mixed Reality, Oculus Desktop, SteamVR, Monado (Linux), and eventually everywhere OpenXR is! Flat screen MR simulator with input emulation for easy development. Builds your application to device in seconds, not minutes. Mixed Reality inputs like hands and eyes are trivial to access. Texture formats .jpg, .png, .tga, .bmp, .psd, .gif, .hdr, .pic, .qoi, equirectangular cubemap, procedural. Documentation generated directly from the source code, including screenshots. -
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UXF
Framework for creating human behaviour experiments in Unity
The Unity Experiment Framework (UXF) is an open-source package for the Unity3D game engine that can be used to assist the development of virtual reality human behavior experiments. Developed by Jack Brookes, Immersive Cognition Group, University of Leeds. Automates the process of collecting the variables you define within your task, and stores them simple CSV files. Time-series data such as the position and rotation of an object can be easily acquired and split into one file per trial. Allows you to programmatically define independent variables for your session, blocks and trials. Includes a pre-built UI for allowing the researcher to view and enter information about the session. All file IO tasks are performed concurrently in a separate thread to avoid any drops in the framerate. UXF works with any Unity project but is designed specifically for virtual reality human behavior experiments. -
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WebXR Polyfill
Use the WebXR Device API today providing fallbacks to native WebVR 1.1
Use the WebXR Device API today, providing fallbacks to native WebVR 1.1 and Cardboard. A JavaScript implementation of the WebXR Device API, as well as the WebXR Gamepad Module. This polyfill allows developers to write against the latest specification, providing support when run on browsers that implement the WebVR 1.1 spec, or on mobile devices with no WebVR/WebXR support at all. The polyfill reflects the stable version of the API which has shipped in multiple browsers. If you are writing code against the WebVR 1.1 spec, use webvr-polyfill, which supports browsers with the 1.0 spec, or no implementation at all. It is recommended to write your code targeting the WebXR Device API spec however and use this polyfill as browsers begin to implement the latest changes. The minimal input controls currently supported by WebXR is polyfilled here as well, using the Gamepad API. -
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A-Frame Inspector
Visual inspector tool for A-Frame
A visual inspector tool for A-Frame scenes. Just hit <ctrl> + <alt> + i on any A-Frame scene to open up the Inspector. Get a different view of the scene and see the visual effect of tweaking entities. The VR analog to the browser’s DOM inspector. Can be opened on any A-Frame scene with <ctrl> + <alt> + i. Record and replay headset and controller pose and events. Hit record, move around inside the VR headset, interact with objects with the controller. Then replay that recording back on any computer for rapid development and testing. Reduce the amount of time going in and out of the headset. The A-Frame Inspector is a visual tool for inspecting and tweaking scenes. The Inspector is similar to the browser’s DOM inspector but tailored for 3D and A-Frame. Not only can we open our local scenes inside the Inspector, we can open any A-Frame scene in the wild using the Inspector (as long as the author has not explicitly disabled it). -
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AVRS performs spatial 3D-sound processing allowing the arbitrary placement of sound source in auditory space. The main goal is to develop a genuine experimental flexible platform, that runs in a general-purpose architecture computer (standard hardware and software).
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Arcan
Powerful development framework for creating virtually anything
Arcan is a powerful development framework for creating virtually anything from user interfaces for specialized embedded applications all the way to full-blown standalone desktop environments. At its heart lies a robust and portable multimedia engine, with a well-tested and well-documented Lua scripting interface. The development emphasizes security, debuggability and performance, guided by a principle of least surprise in terms of API design. For the main engine there has been quite some refactoring to reduce input latency; better accommodate variable-refresh rate display; prepare for asymmetric uncooperative multi-GPU and GPU handover; explicit synchronization and runtime transitions back and forth between low (16-bit) to standard (32-bit) to high-definition rendering (10-bit + fp16/fp32). -
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BLUI is an ongoing research project in user interface design for virtual reality environments. BLUI was developed by the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska- Fairbanks.
