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Basis lets you set up your own Social VR and Networked VR games with ease.

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Basis

The Social VR Framework
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About Basis

Basis Philosophy <- read our Philosophy here!

We are an MIT-Licensed Open-Source project with a focus on open development and full access to any optional modification desired or required.

Our goal is to help equip VR Creators, so we can accelerate the growth of VR.

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We are actively working on Basis. If you like what you see, please consider contributing to the GitHub in any way you can.

How you can Contribute

After a year of development, we have only recently put Basis on GitHub, which means that while everything is operational, we still have to work on fixing plenty of bugs.

Do you have a suggestion for improving Basis? Please fork the repo and create a pull request! You can also open an issue with the tag “improvement”. Not sure how to contribute, but still wanting to help out? Consider donating! We appreciate any help possible.

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Please help shape the future of Basis and leave your mark on its foundation.

Creating a Fork

  1. Fork the Project
  2. Optionally, Setup CI Secrets.
  3. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/ACrazyNewFeature)
  4. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some ACrazyNewFeature')
  5. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/ACrazyNewFeature)
  6. Open a Pull Request

Installation

This project is currently using Unity 6 (open the project through Unity Hub to see the version) Other Unity versions may work, but will require changes and adaptations. Currently, OPENXR and SteamVR are supported, as well as OPENXR Quest.

As a note, command line args for basis are:

to disable booting a VR mode. --disable-OpenVRLoader --disable-OpenXRLoader

to force a VR mode from boot. --force-OpenXRLoader --force-OpenVRLoader

  1. Make sure you have the correct Unity version installed.
  2. Clone the repository
    git clone https://github.com/BasisVR/Basis.git
  3. Open the project and make sure to load the scene Initialisation
  4. Enter play!

Contact

basis enquiries - developerbasis@gmail.com Luke Dooly - @lukedooly - doolanl208@gmail.com

Discord:
Our Discord Community
Doolys Discord Account

Thank you to everyone who has helped Basis become something remarkable.

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See MIT License for more information.

Built With

This would not be possible without the following:

Third-Party Code and Trademarks

This project includes third-party software under the following licenses:

Apache License 2.0

BSD-3-Clause

  • OpenVR - (C) Valve Corporation. See Basis/Packages/com.valvesoftware.unity.openvr/LICENSE.md
  • SteamVR - (C) Valve Corporation. See Basis/Packages/com.steam.steamvr/LICENSE

BSD (Modified/Clear)

  • Opus Codec - Copyright 2001-2011 Xiph.Org, Skype Limited, Octasic, Jean-Marc Valin, Timothy B. Terriberry, CSIRO, Gregory Maxwell, Mark Borgerding, Erik de Castro Lopo. See Basis/Packages/com.avionblock.opussharp/Opus_LICENSE_PLEASE_READ.txt

MIT

  • uLipSync - Copyright 2021 hecomi. See Basis/Packages/com.hecomi.ulipsync/LICENSE.md
  • OpusSharp - Copyright 2026 AvionBlock. See Basis/Packages/com.avionblock.opussharp/LICENSE.txt
  • URP Volumetric Fog - Copyright 2025 Cristian Qiu Felez. See Basis/Packages/com.cqf.urpvolumetricfog/LICENSE.md
  • RNNoise.Net - Copyright 2023 Yellow Dog Man Studios. See Basis/Packages/com.xiph.rnnoise/LICENSE
  • Basis Comms - Copyright 2025 Hai~ and MR LUKE B DOOLAN. See Basis/Packages/dev.hai-vr.basis.comms/LICENSE
  • MeaMod.DNS - Copyright 2021 James Weston. See Basis/Packages/nuget.meamod.dns/LICENSE
  • Newtonsoft.Json - Copyright 2007 James Newton-King. See Basis/Packages/org.basisvr.newtonsoft.json/LICENSE
  • BouncyCastle - Copyright 2000-2024 The Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. See Basis/Packages/org.basisvr.bouncycastle/LICENSE
  • Base128 - See Basis/Packages/org.basisvr.base128/LICENSE
  • Generator.Equals - Copyright Diego Frata. See Basis/Packages/org.basisvr.generator.equals/LICENSE
  • SimpleBase - Copyright Sedat Kapanoglu. See Basis/Packages/org.basisvr.simplebase/LICENSE
  • ZeroMessenger - Copyright 2024 Annulus Games. See Basis/Packages/com.basis.zeromessenger/LICENSE.md
  • UnityJigglePhysics - MIT licensed upstream
  • AudioLink - MIT licensed upstream
  • cilbox - MIT licensed upstream

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Trademarks

"Valve", "Steam", and the associated figurative images are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation in the US and in various other jurisdictions. All rights reserved. Use of these trademarks must comply with the guidelines outlined in Basis/Packages/com.steam.steamaudio/TRADEMARK_RIGHTS.md.

Basis Trademark Guidelines

"Basis", "BasisVR", "Basis Framework", and the Basis logo are marks representing the Basis Project. Please see TRADEMARK.md for our policies on their usage.

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