Join us at #FOSDEM 2026 this weekend! Overte team will be hosting #foss #VR and #gaming devroom on Sunday and a presentation about #Overte 's new #Vulkan renderer backend. #opensource #FOSDEM2026
Screenshot of Alezia's Valombra world, with several people standing on an old bridge across a canyon.
Screenshot of Alezia's Valombra world, with several people posing in front of a mountain fortress.
Alezia's newest world, Valombra, is a virtual mountain hiking trip with beautiful landscape, dynamic day/night cycle and several surprises hidden on the way. Come visit it on #Overte! #foss #opensource #vr
Screenshot from Overte Foundation general assembly 2025.
2025.12.1 release of #Overte is ready. Thank you to all the contributors and #NLnet foundation for making this happen!
It brings amazing new features such entity fade effects, scriptable canvas entities and a lot more. #foss #opensource #vr
Screenshot of voxel models with various PBR materials, with avatars of Overte contributors and Mediterranean vegetation in the background.
Newest Overte release features PBR material support on #voxel entities and triplanar texture mapping on models, making in-game created worlds look more realistic. Thank you to HifiExperiments for implementing and #NLnet for funding this amazing feature! #foss #opensource #vr #overte
Screenshot of Overte's new Graphics Settings UI, with modern-looking toggles and options.
Newest Overte release features new Graphics Settings UI, which is a part of planned UI overhaul. Thank you to Armored Dragon for this amazing contribution! #opensource #foss #vr #overte
Screenshot of Overte Warmup event, with community members standing among hand-painted 3d models of Mediterranean vegetation.
Up for helping us out? The Overte e.V. is doing its first donation drive. We are preparing to hire our first long standing contributor, and hope to raise 3000€ toward that goal.
Read more here: overte.org/index.html#h...
Or go straight to our donation page: overte.org/donate.html
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2025.05.1 #Overte release is ready! It brings features such as PBR materials on #voxel entities, new graphics settings UI, #OpenXR support including hand tracking, Create App improvements and many others. Thank you to all the contributors and #NLnet for making this possible! #opensource #foss #vr
Screenshot of Create App window
Screenshot of Create App window
Several improvements to Overte's Create App got merged, including local entities support, multiline text entity editing, child entities UI and a lot of other enhancements that will make in-game creation much easier. Thanks to Alezia Kurdis for this amazing contribution! #foss #opensource #vr
Screenshot from Linux VR users meetup in Overte
Experimental #OpenXR support just got merged and will be available in the next release. It makes using #Overte in #VR on #Linux much easier and more compatible with #opensource runtimes such as #Monado and #WiVRn. Thanks to Lubosz and Ada for contributing this amazing feature! #foss
2025.03.03 hotfix release of #Overte is ready! It addressed freezes on start in VR, fixes antialiasing on transparencies and significantly improves startup time. #foss #vr #opensource
Screenshot of Overte developer meeting.
2025.03.1 release of #Overte is ready! It has a number of improvements, including Alezia's redesigned Places app including portals. Thanks to HifiExperiments and #NLnet foundation grant this release has improved TAA, third person camera clipping and codebase refactor. #foss #vr #opensource
Overte's V8 script engine is very versatile. Can it run Doom though? Thanks to Ada's recent work on Canvas API grant from #NLnet foundation, on feature/canvas-entity branch it's now possible to paint directly to textures from #javascript and #webassembly . #foss #opensource #wasm #vr
Screenshot of a futuristic-looking virtual world with shiny metal trees. Woman with long black hair looking at a glowing portal.
Screenshot of a futuristic-looking virtual world with shiny metal trees. Woman with long black hair looking at a glowing portal. UI for spawning portals is overlaid on the top of the image.
Portal spawning system got merged, and will soon be available in the upcoming release of #Overte . It allows users to spawn a portal to a different place so that friends may follow them while visiting different virtual worlds. #vr #foss #opensource
Laptop running Overte with experimental Vulkan renderer
We will also be showing Overte's new #vulkan renderer, which is still in development. It was made possible thanks to #NLnet foundation grant. #fosdem #opensource #vr #foss #fosdem2025
Overte stand at FOSDEM 2025, with deskop and VR live demo.
Come join us at our stand at #FOSDEM today for a live #VR demo of Overte #opensource social virtual worlds game! We are at room J1.106, next to main auditorium. #foss #fosdem2025
There will also be a demo of Overte running on @monado.dev, showing off a fully open source stack XR including the XR runtime.
Poster presenting Overte virtual worlds platform, with screenshots of different worlds and avatars and text saying: "Overte is an open source virtual worlds and social VR software which enables you to create and share virtual worlds as virtual reality (VR) and desktop experiences. You can create and host your own virtual world, explore other worlds, meet and connect with other users, attend or host liver VR events and much more."
Poster presenting Overte virtual worlds platform, with screenshots of different worlds and avatars and text saying: VIRTUAL WORLDS & SOCIAL VR, COMPLETELY OPEN SOURCE, WITH AL YOUR FREEDOM, OVERTE.ORG - Collaborative world creation and editing. - VR support, including body tracking. - Scalability up to 500 users in a single world. - Scriptable using Javascript, Typescript or WebAssembly. - Very robust API. - High quality low latency spatial audio. - Powerful physics through Bullet physics engine. - Fully open-source under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. - No central authority. You can run your own server from home. - No user account required. - Supported by a democratic non-profit organization.
Come visit us at our stand at #FOSDEM 2025 for a live demonstration of Overte #opensource virtual worlds platform in #VR!
Our stand will be located in the Janson building: fosdem.org/2025/stands/
#foss
Screenshot of a virtual world in Overte containing tower on an island floating high in the sky over planet with bright red atmosphere.
Screenshot of a virtual world in Overte containing tower on an island floating high in the sky over planet with bright red atmosphere.
Screenshot of tropical island world in Overte
Work on #Vulkan renderer grant from #NLnet Foundation is progressing, with both forward and deferred #renderer having most features finished now. Optimization and #vr support is coming next. #opensource #foss
Screenshot from Overte's Vulkan renderer showing colored wireframe image of an autumn island surrounded by a lake.
First milestone of #Vulkan renderer grant from #NLnet Foundation has been completed, with renderer now being able to output wireframe. Next milestone is well underway with forward renderer being almost ready. Thank you to NLnet Foundation for making this possible! #foss #overte #opensource #vr
2024.11.1 release of #Overte #OpenSource #socialvr platform is here!
This release contains large number of new features, including mirrors, GPU particles, audio zones and sound entities.
Thank you to #NLnet Foundation and all the contributors! It wouldn't have been possible without you. #foss #vr
