IMPORTANT NOTE: Effective July 26th, 2018, I have moved this list over to a separate page on my blog. I will only be updating that page instead of this blogpost, so the information you see on this blogpost will become dated over time.
Platforms marked with an asterisk (*) support users in VR headsets. In some cases, VR support is experimental or still in beta.
- Active Worlds (the granddaddy of all virtual worlds, now 23 years old)
- AltspaceVR*
- Anyland*
- Avakin Life
- Bean VR* (which appears to have closed down)
- Bigscreen*
- Blue Mars (now closed, as far as I know)
- Ceek*
- Cisco Spark in VR*
- Cloud Party (officially closed in 2014 after they were bought out by Yahoo!)
- Community Garden*
- Cryptovoxels*
- Decentraland (not yet available)
- The Deep (not yet available)
- DiveReal*
- Dual Universe (I would classify this as an MMO/MMORPG instead of a virtual world)
- Edorble*
- Elysium VR (not yet available)
- EmbodyMe*
- Endless Riff*
- Engage*
- Ethernia (not yet available)
- Eventual VR*
- Ever, Jane
- Facebook Spaces*
- Geekzonia* (which appears to have closed down)
- Guru Gedara*
- High Fidelity*
- Hyperfair VR*
- IMVU
- Inlight Spark*
- InWorldz (This grid will close on July 27th, 2018.)
- JanusVR*
- Kiss or Kill*
- Kitely
- LivCloser
- LiveLike*
- Mark Space
- MeetinVR* (not yet available)
- MetaWorld (not yet available; Buyer Beware!)
- Mozilla Hubs*
- Myst Online: Uru Live (although I would classify this as an MMO/MMORPG rather than a virtual world)
- NeosVR*
- Neutrans*
- Occupy White Walls
- Oculus Rooms* (this one is only for Gear VR and the new Oculus Go; we Oculus Rift users are still stuck with Facebook Spaces)
- OpenSim based virtual worlds (e.g. OSGrid); here’s a complete list
- Pluto VR*
- Rec Room*
- Rumii*
- Sansar*
- Second Life (Now 15 years old, the most commercially successful and popular virtual world to date. Note: If you are looking for the Second Life freebies section of this blog, please scroll down and select “Second Life Steals, Deals and Freebies” from the Categories section, or just click here.)
- Sinespace*
- Somnium Space*
- Staramba Spaces (not yet available)
- STYLY*
- SurrealVR*
- Terra Virtua (not yet available)
- Topik*
- There.com
- TheWaveVR*
- Twinity
- Utherverse/Red Light Center
- VIBEHub (not yet available)
- VirBELA
- Virtual Paradise
- Virtual Universe* (a social VR/MMO hybrid)
- VRChat*
- vTime*
- Worldopoly (more of a game than a virtual world, from what I can tell)
- Worlds Adrift (I would classify this as an MMO/MMORPG instead of a virtual world)
Well, I figure this is pretty much the canonical listing of social VR spaces/virtual worlds. Have I missed any? It’s like Pokémon, “gotta catch ’em all”…if you have heard of one that I haven’t covered yet, please let me know in the comments, thanks!
