High Fidelity (hifi) is an early-stage technology lab experimenting with Virtual Worlds and VR.

In this repository you'll find the source to many of the components in our alpha-stage virtual world. The project embraces distributed development and if you'd like to help, we'll pay you -- find out more at Worklist.net. If you find a small bug and have a fix, pull requests are welcome. If you'd like to get paid for your work, make sure you report the bug via a job on Worklist.net.

We're hiring! We're looking for skilled developers; send your resume to hiring@highfidelity.io

Interface is our OS X and Linux build-able client for accessing our virtual world.

Hifi uses CMake to generate build files and project files for your platform. You can download CMake at cmake.org

Create a build directory in the root of your checkout and then run the CMake build from there. This will keep the rest of the directory clean, and makes the gitignore a little easier to handle (since we can just ignore build).

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G Xcode

Those are the commands used on OS X to run CMake from the build folder and generate Xcode project files. If you are building on a *nix system, you'll run something like "cmake .." (this will depend on your exact needs)

In addition to CMake, Qt 5.1 is required to build all components.

What can I build on? We have successfully built on OS X 10.8, Ubuntu and a few other modern Linux distributions. A Windows build is planned for the future, but not currently in development.

If you don't see anything, make sure your preferences are pointing to root.highfidelity.io, if you still have no luck it's possible our servers are simply down; if you're experiencing a major bug, let us know by suggesting a Job on Worklist.net -- make sure to include details about your operating system and your computer system.

To move around in-world, use the arrow keys (and Shift + up/down to fly up or down) or W A S D, and E or C to fly up/down. All of the other possible options and features are available via menus in the Interface application.

voxel-server, animation-server, audio-mixer, avatar-mixer, domain-server, pairing-server and space-server are architectural components that will allow you to run the full stack of the virtual world should you choose to.

In the voxel-server/src directory you will find a README that explains how to setup and administer a voxel-server.

Keep in mind that, at a minimum, you must run a domain-server, voxel-server, audio-mixer, and avatar-mixer to have a working virtual world. Basic documentation for the other components is on its way.