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janusVR: an immersive, collaborative, multi-dimensional internet.
Human imagination and our spirit of exploration feed off each other.
janusVR is a VR experience, created and explored by the collective imagination of our growing global sentience.
In janusVR today, we transcend geographical boundaries to convene and interact in connected, multi-dimensional spaces.
...socializing, shopping, conducting meetings, attending music, movies and gaming events, or
collaboratively wandering each other's decentralized utopian spaces, exploring and inspiring creativity in each other. Above all simply being there.
Join us!
Immersive
Collaborative
janusVR enables collaborative creation, editing, chat, talk and visual interaction.
Multi-dimensional
janusVR sites are topological spaces embedded in 3D interconnected by portals. It is the 2D and 3D internet, seamlessly functional in 3D.
Community
An actively growing community of over 90,000 users. janusVR is indeed the metaverse of our users, by our users, for our users.
Experience
Inspired by the metaverse of Snow Crash, and named after Janus, the Roman God of passages, janusVR is an online network of multi-dimensional spaces, interconnected by portals. Portals in janusVR, like the God, have two faces that peer into the spaces they seamlessly link. The janusVR experience draws you into this metaverse whether you are strapped to a headset or on the move with a tablet.
- Author content using existing 3D modeling tools, with our extended HTML and javascript.
- Navigate using traditional gamer controls, touch, teleporting ghosts or 3D hand gestures.
- Customize your Avatar.
- Talk, chat and visually interact in 3D.
- Surf the 2D web in 3D.
Downloads (42.25)
Windows Installation
- Extract .zip
- Move directory to desired place
- Run janusvr.exe
Optional Extras:
Janus VR Auto-updater (auto-update utility)
K-Lite Codec Pack (codecs for video playback)
Mumble (for voice chat)
Mac OSX Installation
- Open janusvr.dmg
- Drag janusvr.app into the Applications folder
- Double click to run
Imagery
Events
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The 2015 JanusVR Virtual Expo
May 17, 2015, 2pm PST.
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Digital LA: Social VR Panel
April 30, 2015, 6pm PST.
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Fight Night: Boxing from Bossier City, Louisiana
March 27, 2015, showtime @ 8pm CST.
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VRock you 2015! At the Lucky Strike
True Rivals, Turbulent Hearts, Images
March 8, 2015
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Jam Night at Lucky Strike Live!
...stephen perkins, gliby clarke and chuck wright - brought to you by vrlive.tv and janusVR!
February 18, 2015, showtime @ 8pm PST.
Directions to the concert:- Load up janusVR and from the main lobby, head over to "The VR Bar"
- Beyond the front doors (click to open), you'll find a portal to "Lucky Strike"
- Press 'O' to bring up a live twitter feed - Tweet from inside JanusVR!
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...watch billy gibbons, butch trucks, slash and a bunch of others live and immersive with vrlive.tv and janusVR.
January 12, 2015, Red carpet @ 6pm, showtime @ 7pm PST. REPLAY
- Experience a concert at the legendary Roxy on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood!
Live and immersive with VRLIVE.TV and JanusVR. Levitate in janusVR, over the sea of beer spilling, view blocking dudes, and VRock out to 6 punk bands from the CyberTracks record label.
Showtime: December 27, 2014, 7:15pm PST. REPLAY - The Virtual Realty Awards 2014.
Showtime: November 28, 2014, 4:30pm PST. REPLAY
Press and Media
- Alusion's awesome experiments at hackaday.io
- VR live TV, streamed through janusVR
- Oculus Hut: janusVR online videos.
- The VR Bar live events in janusVR channel.
- HoloSpace - JanusVR Rooms in Chrome
- (July 20, 2015) [Vinesauce] Vinny - JanusVR
- (July 19, 2015) ‘Fire’ – Export Blender Direct To Free Online Virtual Reality
- (June 13, 2015) Featured Platform: Building the Metaverse from Today’s Web with JanusVR
- (May 17, 2015) LIVE Recording of the JanusVR Expo and another perspective and another perspective and some humorous highlights
- (May 12, 2015) Test driving the Oculus Rift: Has VR arrived?
- (May 7, 2015) Sortie Multijoueur Oculus Rift Janus VR
- (May 3, 2015) vrgamerdude checks out JanusVR!
- (April 27, 2015) JanusVR. What is it? Why Should You Care?
- (April 14, 2015) 8 Twitter accounts to keep you up to date on virtual reality
- (February 20, 2015) How Will Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Impact on Web Browsing?
- (February 7, 2015) VR-China interview video from within Janus VR!
- (January 28, 2015) Virtual Reality (VR): Accessing its Potential
- (January 20, 2015) Play with JanusVR using an omnidirectional treadmill
- (January 19, 2015) SFHTML5 - UI/UX design for WebVR with Josh Carpenter
- (January 9, 2015) 2015 Will be the Year of Virtual Reality
- (December 26, 2014) The Internet’s Still Just Getting Started, After Twenty Years
- (November 14, 2014) Building The Metaverse: 2014 Technology Exchange
- (October 21, 2014) Factor Magazine - The Future Fracturing of the Internet: How Access Will Define the Web of Tomorrow
- (September 15, 2014) Browsing the Web in Virtual Reality With the Oculus Rift
- (September 4, 2014) Seven amazing apps for the Oculus Rift that aren't games
- (August 21, 2014) Gamer Muscle Videos Review/Let's Play
- (August 4, 2014) Virtual Reality Reviewer
- (April 29, 2014) UofT Magazine - Dont click that link, walk through that door
- (April 21, 2014) Virtual Reality Reviewer
- (March 20, 2014) Fast Co. Design - What If Web Browsing Were Like A Virtual Reality Videogame?
Team
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James McCrae
James is the soul of janusVR. James can crank the foundations of janusVR almost as quickly as we imagine it. James has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.
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Karan Singh
Karan is a professor of interactive computer graphics at the University of Toronto. Karan wrote his dissertation on humans in VR in 1995. After 20 years of work in research and industry on design and animation he has returned to VR.
