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Vircadia

Vircadia is an open-source and decentralized real-time VR creation platform for university, enterprise, social, and OpenSim users. subtitle

Pricing:
  • Open Source
  • Free
Platforms:
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Cross Platform
  • Mac OSX

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  • Vircadia Landing page
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    2023-09-20

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    Most flexible Metaverse out there...

    Most of the 3D world experiences limit what a user can build and do. This is not so with Vircadia. The Apache license makes this 3D application the most flexible tool for building custom and interactive worlds. Vircadia is truly free, open and relatively easy to use. There are several developers who are working and improving this platform daily! Free content ensures that new users have access to materials for building their world without having to worry about learning difficult 3D applications. I highly recommend Vircadia and believe this will be the next big server technology on the world wide web.

    👍 Pros:    Spacial audio|Apache license|Inworld creation tools|Multiple platforms|Vr ready|Free content
    👎 Cons:    In development
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    Probably the best open-source metaverse

    🏁 Competitors: VRChat
    👍 Pros:    Open-source|Running on linux
    👎 Cons:    A little buggy

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  • Vircadia: 2023.2.X “Selene” Release
    Vircadia is an open source (Apache 2.0) metaverse ecosystem consisting of a high performance real-time server architecture (C++), web SDK (TS), and web client (TS). Source: 5 months ago
  • FLAC 1.3.4
    Not pre-baked. I work on https://vircadia.com/ -- it has to give every user their own audio mix to account for their 3D position. This means codec costs add up fast. You can't just encode once and stream the same thing to a dozen people. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
  • FLAC 1.3.4
    Both, primarily the first. Low latency is definitely a requirement, but no issues with Opus on that account. > I haven't looked into how expensive it is to encode in terms of CPU time, so I assume maybe you're taking about a bottleneck in terms of the number of simultaneous streams you can support on a single CPU? Yup! I work on https://vircadia.com/ -- we have to compress audio in real time and every user gets... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
  • When the Stagnation Goes Virtual
    Second Life improved avatars by quite a lot in fairly recent times. There's also alternatives to it, eg, check out the project I work on: https://vircadia.com/ It's a sort of spiritual successor to Second Life, since it was started by the same guy -- Philip Rosedale -- after he left SL. It didn't quite work, so the commercial project died and got picked up by open source forks, which is what I work on. It's less... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
  • When the Stagnation Goes Virtual
    To me it's useful/entertaining in the ways forums and chats are, plus some additional features on top of that. Eg, you can talk to people, but in addition to that you have a collaborative 3D environment with positional audio where you can script, make games or do other stuff. Recently a group using our project put up a Christmas Carol VR play, and the results were most impressive. https://vircadia.com/ -- it's an... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
  • Vircadia FLOSS Metaverse: 2022.1.0 Selene Released!
    Overview: Vircadia is a collection of software components that form an end-to-end open source metaverse platform. It can be used for social activities such as games, hanging out, hosting concerts, or more business-y use cases like meetings, having an organization world, hosting an expo, and so on. Also, here’s the reason why this project exists: https://vircadia.com/vision/. Source: over 2 years ago
  • Is somebody creating a VR/AR desktop environment and a framework for building VR/AR apps?
    It's not exactly a desktop environment, but I'm part of the Vircadia team. It's a VR environment with excellent Linux support, and is very flexible and scriptable (in JS). Source: over 2 years ago
  • ELI5: metavers and decentralized virtual reality
    The good news is that the work continues as an Open Source project, but have in mind a volunteer team can't really compete with the amount of the manpower somebody like Facebook can throw at such projects. But progress is still being done :-). Source: over 2 years ago
  • PODCAST IN VR: Meta wants to create a centralized walled garden where its users do not have voting rights. If successful, it will be a dystopian virtual dictatorship. What should the alternative look like?
    I'm working on setting up such foundation through Vircadia (https://vircadia.com/) which, with luck, over time will keep gaining traction for people to build the alternatives to VRChat, Meta, etc. on. Source: over 2 years ago
  • Is it possible to build a decentralised alternative to the "metaverse"?
    Https://vircadia.com/ is one I've come across, though there's way more people have linked here .^. Source: over 2 years ago
  • Mark Zuckerberg’s “Metaverse” Is a Dystopian Nightmare
    I suppose it's the logical next step for these companies - they want the next version of the internet to be a monopoly under their control, and too bad for everyone else who benefits from an open internet. Support open alternatives like vircadia, since the groundbreaking open source projects (OpenCobalt, Open Source Metaverse Project, etc.) all seem to be defunct. Source: over 2 years ago
  • Show HN: Visualizing a Codebase
    That sounds interesting, can you give more details about that? I work on Vircadia (https://vircadia.com/) and have been thinking for a while that it would be cool to have in-world visualizations of things like the project's structure and github activity. It's a big one, so perhaps the right 3D representation would make the project's structure more understandable at a glance. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
  • [6000+ free models] Google Poly is shutting down, so I spent 5 months recreating it
    This is great work :-) I work on the Vircadia (open source virtual world). We had support for the Poly API. I think this could be a nice replacement for it, do you have an API we could use? Source: almost 3 years ago
  • I'm the Fedora Project Leader -- ask me anything!
    Even Open Source isn't exempt from it. I work on a fully open source 3D/VR environment and we still must break the protocol sometimes. Source: almost 3 years ago
  • [Weekly] What is everybody working on? Share your progress, discoveries, tips and tricks!
    At Vircadia (an open source 3D/VR virtual world) we make very heavy use of Qt and have a bunch of ongoing projects:. Source: almost 3 years ago
  • Any simple boilerplate VR game world server?
    Why not try vircadia? It is free and open source. It has javascript as script engine and you can host your own server on your own. Check it out at https://vircadia.com/. Source: about 3 years ago
  • What open source projects need translation to Spanish ? So I can collaborate
    Hello, we'd love to have you at Vircadia, an open source desktop and VR environment. Source: about 3 years ago
  • Not that I mind TOO much, but...
    There is also Vircadia, but do any of these support avatars that can be used on any platform? I think what we really need, is a unified avatar system, which can support different avatars for different levels of performance, and a way a group of people can jump from software to software all using the same avatars. All VR software, should be able to be hyperlinked together to create a unified metaverse. Source: about 3 years ago
  • [Weekly] What is everybody working on? Share your progress, discoveries, tips and tricks!
    I'm working on Vircadia, an open source VR environment. Source: about 3 years ago

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