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Adam Savage's Tested VR; Oculus TV

Recommended Subjects: Art, Design
Compatible Device(s): Oculus Quest, Oculus Quest 2
Cost: Free
Description: Also in Oculus TV; Inspired by Adam Savage's Tested One Day Builds, Adam Savage's Tested VR takes audiences on a journey inside the creative workspaces of incredible makers, bringing their processes to life, from ideation to creation. Featuring an eclectic roster of creators, Adam and the Tested team put viewers inside their workshops for an intimate look at their builds.

AnimVR

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Compatible Device(s): PC Steam, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Rift S
Cost: $30
Description: AnimVR revolutionizes your 3D content production with a powerful timeline, virtual cameras, audio recording, fading & editing - combined with industry standard import and export capabilities, like Alembic Cache and Pixar's USD.

Blocks

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Compatible Device(s): Google VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Rift S
Cost: $30
Description: With six tools you can create models as simple as a mug and as complex as a spaceship. With Blocks, you can create models in VR. That means no more mind tricks to create real, volumetric objects on a 2D surface. Whether you’re building an app or showcasing your talent, share your models via links, .obj exports, or animated gifs.

Brushwork - VR Painting Tool

Recommended Subjects: Art and Design
Compatible Device(s): Oculus Quest, Oculus Quest 2, HTC Vive, Reverb G2
Cost: Free
Description: Mix colors on a palette you can hold. Use a variety of brushes on a realistic canvas. Paint on large or small canvases. Add reference photos. Share your paintings -- your friends can see them in AR on their phone. 

CoolPaintrVR

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Compatible Device(s): PSVR
Cost: $19.99
Description: Imagine drawing in 3D space with a large collection of brushes, primitive shapes, tubes, particles and many other stunning effects, while listening to your favourite music playable from CoolPaintrVR via an USB stick. Imagine being lost in your own creative universe, using the zoom feature to build a small world within another, hiding mysterious secrets that the rest of the community should try to figure out. Imagine sharing your creations with the CoolPaintrVR community, getting to the web site www.coolpaintrvr.com, where you may upload your works and download those from the rest of users. Imagine a sophisticated 3D engine capable of maintaining stable 120fps, that is able to turn your playing time into a smooth, accurate and motion sickness free experience... All of this is CoolPaintrVR, your mind is the only limit!

Dreams

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Compatible Device(s): PSVR
Cost: $19.99
Description: Dreams is a space where you go to play and experience the dreams of Media Molecule and our community. It’s also a space in which to create your own dreams, whether they’re games, art, films, music or anything in-between and beyond.

Gravity Sketch

Recommended Subjects: Art and Design
Compatible Device(s): Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift S, Oculus Quest, Oculus Quest 2
Cost: $29.99
Description: Think in 3D. Create in 3D. Preserve your design intent through the creative process! Communicate ideas in 3D at each stage, capture work as an image or model to use in other phases of  your workflow. A powerful yet intuitive creation tool - express 3D ideas in real-time at any scale. Create loose free form sketches, detailed models, expansive scenes, and artwork unrestricted.

Kingspray Graffiti

Recommended Subjects: Art and Design
Compatible Device(s): Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift S, Oculus Quest, Oculus Quest 2
Cost: $14.99
Description: Creating amazing street art would be much more fun without the jail time! Kingspray is a battle-tested VR Graffiti Simulator, with realistic spray, colors, drips, metallics, and more! Paint System: World-class artists have helped us create caps, realistic pressure and fading, metallics, wet/dry effects and real-world colors from Ironlak!

Let's Create Pottery VR

Recommended Subjects: Art and Design
Compatible Device(s): Oculus Quest, Oculus Quest 2
Cost: $19.99
Description: Go through all the stages of creating ceramics. Choose the color of the clay. Shape it on the potter's wheel with your own hands. Add the necessary elements, burn and decorate like a real artisan, choose a variety of colors or use ready-made color palettes. Give them a unique style and character. You can refer to classic art patterns or create individual projects yourself.

Masterpiece Studios VR

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Compatible Device(s): Oculus Quest, Oculus Quest 2, HTC Vive
Cost: Free Trial, $19.95 per month
Description: The first fully immersive 3D creation pipeline ever. A suite of professional, intuitive and easy-to-use immersive tools made for creatives, artists, designers, and illustrators that have always imagined a world beyond a monitor.

Medium

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Compatible Device(s): Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift S, Oculus Quest with Link
Cost: Free
Description: With Medium you can intuitively create organic shapes, complex characters, abstract art, and anything in between.

Museum of Other Realities

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Compatible Device(s): HTC Vive, Steam VR, Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift S, 
Cost: Free
Description: A community of creators, explorers, and artists, the MOR provides a place to connect, share, and experience new media together with others from all over the world in VR. The virtual museum is an ongoing, regularly-updated experience. It contains a cross section of the free-ranging experimentation present in the relatively new medium of VR art, supporting artists who are challenging and redefining what is possible. Together we can discover what this new space means to all of us.

Notes on Blindness

Recommended Subjects: Art and Design
Compatible Device(s): Oculus Quest, Oculus Quest 2
Cost: Free
Description: The multi-awarded narrative VR experience is now available on Oculus Quest. ARTE gives you the opportunity to discover and rediscover Notes On Blindness, an emotional journey into a world beyond sight.

Quill

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Compatible Device(s): Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift S
Cost: Free
Description: Quill is designed to let the artist's "hand" come through clearly — whether that's a watercolor style, pencil style, oil painting style or other creative look. While Quill enables artists to create finished illustrations, experiences and animated stories, it's also ideal for pre-visualization, concept design, storyboarding, set design and much more. Quill enables you to make important decisions at an early stage in production, saving time you'd otherwise spend on iterations.

Sculpt VR

Recommended Subjects: Art and Design
Compatible Device(s): Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, Oculus Quest 2
Cost: $19.99
Description: Create sprawling, brilliant worlds and explore them with your friends! Invite your friends to an online game, then race to the finish with hang-gliders, or switch to climbing mode for even more fun. Discover thousands of amazing creations in the interactive gallery then remix them however you want! When you're happy with your creation, you can upload to the SculptrVR content gallery and let others see the incredible things you've made.

ShapeLab

Recommended Subjects: Art and Design
Compatible Device(s): HTC Vive, Valve Index, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality, Oculus Quest with Link Cable or AirLink
Cost: $19.99
Description: Shapelab by Leopoly is an intuitive VR design application using dynamic polygon mesh-based sculpting technology, empowering everyday users to become 3D creators while also providing 3D artists with a wide range of powerful and efficient tools to create high-quality models for professional use. We are continuously working on developing Shapelab and our aim is to provide a high-performing, easy-to-use set of VR creative tools that can be integrated into our users’ design workflow.

Tilt Brush

Recommended Subjects: Art and Design
Compatible Device(s): HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, Oculus Quest 2, Windows
Cost: $29.99
Description: Tilt brush lets you paint in virtual reality and save your work.

tvori

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Compatible Device(s): PC Windows, Oculus Quest 2
Cost: Free Trial, $10-15 per month
Description: We make collaboration smooth & easy for you to prototype interfaces, products, and design amazing experiences for XR and for the real world