About
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 live VR events, and much more.
The Overte software provides the following key features:
Collaborative world creation and editing
VR support, including body tracking
Scalability for up to 500 users in a single world
Scripting in JavaScript, which allows creation of games, interactables, UI elements, and custom applications
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
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Development meeting in the Overte office
News
2026-03-09 Monthly progress report
This month, we talk about a large performance regression, the new dashboard UI and Flycam, and the weekly "Overte Warmup" event.
2026-01-23 Monthly progress report
I finally took the time to give our website a little facelift. The news section used to be just a long text document. This was replaced with ABlog a blogging extension for Sphinx. It makes the news section a little more manageable, without adding much maintenance overhead. While I was at it, I slightly increased the font size and limited the width of the website.
2025-12-17 Monthly progress report
This month, I decided to change it up a bit and report on the progress to date, instead of only to the end of last month.
2025-11-22 Invitation to the Overte e.V. general assembly 2025
Saturday, December 6th at 19:00 UTC we will hold our annual general assembly for the Overte e.V. in Overte. While only active Overte e.V. members are allowed to vote, non-Overte-e.V.-members are also welcome to attend.
2025-11-05 October progress report
74hc595 again spent most of their time working on upgrading to Qt6. While chasing down crashes on Qt6, they uncovered and fixed multiple old memory safety issues, which have probably been causing issues for years now. Of course, they also did their usual general contributions like reviewing and testing Pull Requests.
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