Ubiq

A Unity networking library for research, teaching and development, maintained by the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group at University College London.

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100% free and open source, published under an Apache 2.0 license.

Networking 🗲

Networking features include message passing, room management, rendezvous and matchmaking, object spawning, shared binary blobs, and voice chat.

Cross-Compatible 🔌

Ubiq works across Windows, Linux, Android, macOS, and JavaScript running in the browser. Developers may utilise any XR toolkit for advanced functionality.

GDPR-Safe 🔒

Ubiq does not rely on any third-party services, making it GDPR-safe for your experimental data.

Self-contained 📦

Ubiq relies on WebRTC for voice and video chat. The repository includes binaries for Windows, Linux, Android and macOS, so you do not need to download anything else.

Built with Unity 🖥️

Easily customize your collaborative XR experiences using the popular open-source game engine by building on our lightweight XR interaction examples.

Logging and Analytics 📈

Draw on modular extensions of Ubiq to integrate networked recording and playback, as well as real-time log data such as proxemics.

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Latest Blog Posts

New Desktop Control Scheme

In pre8 we released the XRIT Desktop Controls, which are built into the XRI Demo Scene.

Posted August 19, 2024 by Sebastian Friston ‐ 4 min read

VR for Clinical Reasoning

An update from the Institute of Cardiovascular Science on extending their VheaRts application to support clinical scenario simulation for training, with Ubiq as the cross-platform multi-user backend.

Posted April 19, 2024 by Endrit Pajaziti ‐ 4 min read

Local Deployments with Docker

We've recently introduced containers, which package up the server for each release.

Posted February 20, 2024 by Sebastian Friston ‐ 4 min read

Latest Publications

StreamSpace: A Framework for Window Streaming in Collaborative Mixed Reality Environments

Published March 16, 2024 in IEEE VR '24: 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) by Daniele Giunchi, Riccardo Bovo, Nels Numan, Anthony Steed

DreamCodeVR: Towards Democratizing Behavior Design in Virtual Reality with Speech-Driven Programming

Published March 16, 2024 in IEEE VR '24: 2024 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) by Daniele Giunchi, Nels Numan, Elia Gatti, Anthony Steed

AIsop: Exploring Immersive VR Storytelling Leveraging Generative AI

Published March 16, 2024 in IEEE VR '24: 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) by Elia Gatti, Daniele Giunchi, Nels Numan, Anthony Steed