The applications that let you draw and paint in virtual reality

Deniz Ergürel
Haptical
Published in
2 min readOct 15, 2016

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Photo Credit: Google Tilt Brush

Tilt Brush

Tilt Brush is one of the most popular painting and drawing applications for virtual reality. Developed by Google Tilt Brush for HTC Vive, it lets users to paint in 3D space with three-dimensional brush strokes, stars, light, and even fire. The Tilt Brush experience is so fun and engaging that it is often described as the ‘killer app’ for VR. With new updates on the way, it is definitely one of the top VR experiences to try.

PaintLab

PaintLab is a virtual reality sculpting and painting application built for HTC Vive. Users can record and stream video’s while painting. The app can be downloaded on Steam for free.

Kingspray Graffiti Simulator

This is a virtual reality graffiti simulator developed for HTC Vive. It allows users to get a true-to-life feeling of spraying graffiti on the streets.

Gravity Sketch

Gravity Sketch is a London based start up that offers a software to draw and manipulate objects in a virtual reality environment.

MasterpieceVR

This application is a work of Brinx Software from Canada. It’s currently in the development phase, and no word on the launch date yet. The YouTube demo video looks cool though!

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Engineering Project Manager. Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism Fellow.