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24 alternatives to Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [video]
This is a video demonstrating recursive virtual reality environments, where someone accesses and works within a VR desktop that itself exists inside another VR desktop. Created for those interested in VR technology and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [video] launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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VR-OS▲130A new operating system beyond the limits of your monitor
2020 · matthaeuskrenn.com · its alternatives →
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Easily build and share VR experiences on the web!
2017 · experiments.withgoogle.com · its alternatives →
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Easily create 3D models in virtual reality
2017 · arvr.google.com · its alternatives →
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VR Sketch▲116A tool for designers to draw inside virtual reality
2018 · vrsketch.eu · its alternatives →
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Hey all! I've been using this stack personally for a while now and decided to automate it a bit by turning it into a template I can reuse. Hope others might find it helpful!
2025 · bhvr.dev · its alternatives →
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Blend Media▲82A tool for creating interactive 360˚ video experiences
2017 · blend.media · its alternatives →
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Room sized VR building game
2015 · fantasticcontraption.com · its alternatives →
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Viar.Live▲122Create for VR. Share & embed 360˚ photos on web and mobile.
2016 · viar.live · its alternatives →
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InCell▲75VR Game that teaches you what's inside a living cell
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · primroseeditor.com · its alternatives →
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I think it's finally time to lock version 0.2 of my 4d side project. (Since previous Show HN a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37100760 I scrapped lots of stuff and concentrated on making a javascript "game engine") The sole purpose of this project is to explore whether it's possible to make the human brain spatially aware of four dimensions using Virtual Reality. It’s my first ever game project, my first time using Unity, first time writing C#, and my first anything with WebXR, so please be gentle! To manage expectations, it isn't visually pleasing…
2025 · brainpaingames.com · its alternatives →
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In the last few years I've been doing a lot of technical writing, both for my own programming blog and others, and I've noticed there is a lack of good tools for this kind of writing. Whether that was a programming blog post or documentation, I always had to move back an forth between different editors, and sometimes even other apps for content management and the actual content publication. A lot of copy-pasting, and wasted time. Based on this experience I decided to try and build a tool that could provide a good experience for this kind of content from writing to publishing. This (I call it…
2023 · vrite.io · its alternatives →
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A web framework for building multi-user virtual reality experiences. - networked-aframe/networked-aframe
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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