Tilt Brush's open-source successor now supports multiplayer
Open Brush, the free and open-source successor to Tilt Brush, now supports collaborative VR painting.
In 2021, Google released the source code for Tilt Brush. Since then, the spatial VR painting app has been further developed by the Icosa Foundation and others.
Their version of Tilt Brush, called Open Brush, has now been updated with multiplayer support. This allows users to meet, chat, and create immersive VR art together in the same virtual space.
You can explore other users' worlds or present your work in a shared space, both for free and across platforms. Hosts can manage their session with tools to mute participants, remove them from the room, or put them in view-only mode.
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According to Mike Nisbet of the Icosa Foundation, live collaboration support was the most requested feature from the community. The initial multiplayer release supports the major painting tools, with more features to come in future updates.
You can download Open Brush for free from the Horizon Store and Steam. Alternatively, you can try MultiBrush, a paid open-source version of Tilt Brush that also supports multiplayer.
The Icosa Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing creative technology through open-source development. In addition to Open Brush, it also maintains Icosa Gallery, an open-source version of Google Poly, and Open Blocks, an open-source version of Google Blocks, both projects that were abandoned by Google. Google Bocks is available in the Horizon Store and on Steam.
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