Google Open Sources Tilt Brush - UploadVR

Google open sourced its groundbreaking art app Tilt Brush, representing the latest move by the tech giant to cease development of its first efforts in virtual reality.

The addition of Tilt Brush to an open source repository on Github represents a gift to the VR development community, with other VR devs already crawling through the code for insights or ideas!

Either I’ll learn something or find out I’ve coded better than Google – either way worth it,” wrote Modbox creator Lee Vermeulen in a direct message!

“Tilt Brush going open source, while sad that it’s reached the end of official development, is the greatest gift that Google could have done for the community.

Patrick Hackett, co-creator of the original software, left Google earlier this month to join Space Pirate Trainer developer I-Illusions “on a very, very special VR thing.” The head of Google-owned Owlchemy Labs — the studio behind Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator — wrote in a tweet that “we are continuing to grow, build awesome games for everyone, innovate and push VR forward.

The transition of Tilt Brush toward open source essentially cements Gravity Sketch as the go-to VR art app.

A new Tilt Brush update for PC VR and Oculus Quest added some great new…