Best Open Source Windows VR Development Software 2026

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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).

Downloads: 176 This Week

Last Update: 2025-03-05
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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.

Downloads: 29 This Week

Last Update: 2026-03-27
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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

15 Reviews

Downloads: 53 This Week

Last Update: 2016-12-04
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Ultraleap Unity Plugin

Ultraleap SDK for Unity

The Ultraleap Unity Plugin empowers developers to build Unity applications using Ultraleap's hand-tracking technology. It includes various assets, examples, and utilities that make it easy to design and build applications using hand tracking in XR projects. Due to the ever changing landscape of package dependencies in Unity we cannot guarantee compatibility with every plugin or variant of Unity, but aim to provide support for any LTS versions that are under continuous support from Unity. If you are sourcing the Unity Plugin directly from this repository, you may find that it does not function well with earlier versions of Unity. There are several ways you can consume this plugin. We've listed several recommended workflows for different users below. This list is by no means exhaustive, if you are aware of a workflow not listed that you think others would appreciate, please consider contributing!

Downloads: 8 This Week

Last Update: 2026-02-25
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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.

Downloads: 5 This Week

Last Update: 2025-04-01
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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.

Downloads: 4 This Week

Last Update: 2026-06-23
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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.

Downloads: 2 This Week

Last Update: 2026-06-07
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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.

Downloads: 2 This Week

Last Update: 2026-03-30
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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.

9 Reviews

Downloads: 10 This Week

Last Update: 2025-09-28
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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.

7 Reviews

Downloads: 8 This Week

Last Update: 2025-09-26
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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.

Downloads: 1 This Week

Last Update: 2026-02-12
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MIVisionX

Set of comprehensive computer vision & machine intelligence libraries

MIVisionX toolkit is a set of comprehensive computer vision and machine intelligence libraries, utilities, and applications bundled into a single toolkit. AMD MIVisionX delivers highly optimized open-source implementation of the Khronos OpenVX™ and OpenVX™ Extensions along with Convolution Neural Net Model Compiler & Optimizer supporting ONNX, and Khronos NNEF™ exchange formats. The toolkit allows for rapid prototyping and deployment of optimized computer vision and machine learning inference workloads on a wide range of computer hardware, including small embedded x86 CPUs, APUs, discrete GPUs, and heterogeneous servers. AMD OpenVX is a highly optimized open-source implementation of the Khronos OpenVX™ 1.3 computer vision specification. It allows for rapid prototyping as well as fast execution on a wide range of computer hardware, including small embedded x86 CPUs and large workstation discrete GPUs.

Downloads: 1 This Week

Last Update: 5 days ago
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VRTK

An example of how to use the Tilia packages to create great content

VRTK is a collection of useful, reusable solutions to common problems found when building for virtual reality. VRTK aims to help productivity by speeding up the creation process from prototyping ideas to building complete solutions. The passion behind VRTK is to try and enable as many people as possible to build for VR, from seasoned developers to complete beginners who have a wonderful idea in their head but are unsure of how to create it. VRTK aims to be easy to understand so the absolute beginner can feel comfortable turning their creative thoughts into experiences but it also has enough power and flexibility to allow developers to really build out their perfect solution with little friction and without constantly re-inventing the wheel. Virtual reality is a relatively new medium so no one really understands what truly works or what doesn't work in terms of solutions, so VRTK aims to bring a community of diverse people from all across the world together to work on solving this.

Downloads: 1 This Week

Last Update: 2022-01-19
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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.

7 Reviews

Downloads: 3 This Week

Last Update: 2025-10-28
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Clay VR Game Engine

Cross-platform 3D Game Interpreter for 3D design games simulation and Virtual Reality Graphics Rendering with GUI and Command Line. Include map editor , game modeler , script editor.

Downloads: 6 This Week

Last Update: 2014-03-14
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MOF-VR

MOF-VR is a virtual reality program developed for Microsoft Windows and HTC Vive that allows for hypothetical metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to be constructed and tested in molecular dynamics simulations of guest molecules.

Downloads: 1 This Week

Last Update: 2021-12-08
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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).

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2023-01-06
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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.

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2025-10-21
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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.

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2022-01-21
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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).

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2025-01-29
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AstralX

A client-server based framework for building 3d applications. Intended to be used for Virtual Reality.

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2016-05-22
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BLUIsculpt

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.

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2013-03-22
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Calcflow

A virtual reality tool for mathematical modeling

The repository contains the open-sourced code to Calcflow, a powerful mathematical visualization tool designed to give students, educators, and engineers a better grasp on some of the most difficult concepts in vector calculus. Utilizing the best UI/UX theory, Calcflow is an intuitive VR interface for vector calculus and is used by scientists and engineers for both educational and commercial applications. Today, the most common tool for complex maths visualization in the classroom is the TI-84+. Scientists, researchers, and other professionals who implement calculus in their work may rely on more complex toolkits like MATLAB. Though these tools offer broader functionality, they are similarly if not more unintuitive than their handheld counterparts. Calcflow shatters this interfacial bottleneck by enabling users to interact directly with complex equations in physical space. Users can manipulate inputs and parameters and observe changes to 3D visualizations in realtime.

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2022-01-20
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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).

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2025-01-27
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Crimild Engine

Crimild Engine is an open source scene graph based engine which purpose is to fulfil the high-performance requirements of typical multi-platform two and tridimensional multimedia projects, like games, simulations and virtual reality.

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2012-09-14
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