Another Google VR app is dying, reborn as an open-source project – Review Geek

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7;s declining interest in VR has led to the demise of Daydream, Jump, and other iconic pieces of early VR software. But the company’s latest victim, the Tilt Brush VR painting app, could be telling its story. Google is announcing that it is ending support for Tilt Brush and, to our surprise, is making the app open source for everyone to tinker with.

After acquiring Skillman & Hackett, the company behind Tilt Brush, Google launched the popular fanfare VR app in 2016. It found a home on all VR platforms, and it will continue to be available on those platforms – only without Google support. Now anyone can find, modify, and distribute the Tilt Brush code on GitHub as they see fit (you may want to read the Apache guidelines before doing anything too ambitious).

Annddd here we go: https: //t.co/dRfC5jR5Yg

To some, this may seem like the end of the tilt brush. To me this is immortality.
Cheers to the team who helped get us here!

– Patrick Hackett (@phacktweets) January 26, 2021

Tilt Brush co-creator Patrick Hackett says that while “this looks like the end of Tilt Brush,” to him, “this is immortality.” The open-source Tilt Brush can enjoy a new lease of life with fans, artists, and creators already publishing modified versions of the software. Not to mention, Tilt Brush is an important part of VR history and we can now archive the source code for people to enjoy in the future.

Google had to remove some data from the Tilt Brush code due to license restrictions, but you can still find information about this lost data in Google’s build guide. Anyone can change this source code or release their own application based on Tilt Brush, as long as they work within the Apache guidelines under which Tilt Brush was originally released.

Source: Google via Engadget