Website | Discord | Download

Build Status

What is this?

Vircadia™ is a 3D social software project seeking to incrementally bring about a truly free and open metaverse.

• Desktop and VR use
• Hundreds of users simultaneously
• Full-body avatars
• FBX, glTF, and OBJ support
• JavaScript scripting engine
• 16km³ world space in a server
• Fully self-hosted
• Apache 2.0

Releases

View Releases here

How to deploy a Server

• For Windows and Linux

Building

How to build the Interface

• For Windows
• For Mac
• For Linux
• For Linux - Vircadia Builder

How to build a Server

• For Windows
• For Linux
• For Linux - Vircadia Builder

How to generate an Installer

• For Windows - Interface & Server
• For Mac - Interface
• For Linux - Server .deb - Vircadia Builder
• For Linux - Server .rpm - Vircadia Builder
• For Linux - Interface AppImage - Vircadia Builder

Boot to Metaverse: The Goal

Having a place to experience adventure, a place to relax with calm breath, that's a world to live in. An engine to support infinite combinations and possibilities of worlds without censorship and interruption, that's a metaverse. Finding a way to make infinite realities our reality is the dream.

Boot to Metaverse: The Technicals

Vircadia consists of many projects and codebases with its unifying structure's goal being a decentralized metaverse.

• The Interface (Codename Athena) - You are here!
• The Server (Codename Athena) - You are also here!
• The Web Interface (Codename Aether)
• The Web SDK (Codename Ananke)
• The Metaverse Server (Codename Iamus)
• The Metaverse Server Dashboard (Codename Iamus)
• The Launcher (Codename Pantheon) - Currently Windows only.

Child Projects

• Vircadia Builder for Linux
• User Documentation
• Developer Documentation

Contribution

There are many contributors to Vircadia. Code writers, reviewers, testers, documentation writers, modelers, and general supporters of the project are all integral to its development and success towards its goals. Find out how you can contribute!

Support

You can support the Vircadia project financially through GitHub Sponsors.

You can also support individual active contributors by visiting each repository, this is the main Vircadia repository's list of active contributors. Click on a contributor's profile to see if they accept donations!

Keep in mind that Vircadia consists of multiple smaller projects that might have different active contributors. This is a a non-exhaustive list.

Supporters of the Vircadia Project

Karol Suprynowicz - 74hc595