Compare the Top Free VR Development Platforms as of December 2025

What are Free VR Development Platforms?

Virtual reality (VR) development software, also known as VR SDK (software development kits), are software applications, frameworks, and software development kits that enable developers to create virtual reality and mixed reality applications and VR experiences. Virtual reality development tools provide capabilities such as 3D modeling and object tracking, artificial intelligence, and more. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free VR Development platforms currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    360dgrees

    360dgrees

    360dgrees

    Quick and easy, everything you need to launch immersive experiences to engage people as never before. Hotspots are the key components of the interactive layer of 360dgrees.com: The chance to change a static virtual reality experience into an opportunity to get into the action. Hotspots are interactive connecting points in the virtual reality space. Static hotspots provide endless functional possibilities, such as booking seats at a venue by giving the user the chance to explore and choose where they want to sit in virtual reality. An action point moving in a virtual plane, these are moving interactive points in a 3D space. Dynamic hotspots give the ability to create an interactive point on a moving object in a 360 video. With near-infinite applications, Picture in Picture provides a seamless transition between instruction and reaction, consumption and narrative.
    Starting Price: $30 per month
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    Cardboard SDK
    The open-source Cardboard SDK allows you to build immersive cross-platform VR experiences for Android and iOS. With essential VR features such as motion tracking, stereoscopic rendering, and user interaction, you can build entirely new VR experiences or enhance existing apps that support VR. Cardboard SDK provides everything you need to create your own Virtual Reality (VR) experiences for Google Cardboard. It supports essential VR features, such as motion tracking, stereoscopic rendering, and user interaction via the viewer button. With these capabilities, you can build entirely new VR experiences, or enhance existing apps with VR capabilities. You can use the Cardboard SDK to turn a smartphone into a VR platform. A smartphone can display 3D scenes with stereoscopic rendering, track and react to head movements, and interact with apps by detecting when the user presses the viewer button.
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