PatchWorld: Build and play musical worlds in multiplayer xR

Discover the ultimate metaverse playground in PatchWorld: a universe of limitless musical creativity! Create and explore boundless worlds, build your dream music studio, produce creative interactive art, and connect with friends globally for a jam session. It’s all native to xR – from the immersive media experts of PatchXR.

It’s a revolutionary cross-reality platform - and your chance to experience a new convergence of music, gaming, mixed reality, and visual imagination. It’s a place where the worlds of art, expression, and dreams can be brought to life.

You start playing PatchWorld as easily as a game, but what you can do with it grows as you dive deeper. That opens up a wide range of possibilities:

Build your ultimate music studio with pro-quality production tools
Jam in mixed reality with friends around the world
Host live concerts - and stream with full 3D visuals on social platforms
Create multiplayer musical games
Give and attend master classes
Produce interactive art and installations
Make fully immersive music tracks and music videos

Developer:
PatchXR

Based in:
Zurich (CH)

Platforms:
Meta Quest 2, Pico, HTC VIVE XR Elite, Pico

Release date:
Available publicly on the Meta Quest store since summer 2022
Also available on HTC VIVE Port (early 2023) and Pico Store (fall 2023). Desktop version coming in 2024.

Store links:

Meta Quest Store

Pico Store

HTC VIVEPORT

Website:
https://www.patchxr.com

Regular Price:
$29.99

Press / Business contact:
Press@patchxr.com

Synopsis

PatchWorld combines the visual experience and playfulness of gaming with the emotional power of music. It’s ready to play from the moment you enter, but deep enough to let you build everything you can imagine. Our “building blocks” approach makes music and game creation intuitive and accessible to everyone who wants to join in.

PatchWorld is more than a music app; it’s a mixed-reality studio where your creations come to life, perfect for sharing on social media.

Features

PatchWorld offers an unprecedented toolset:

Dive into over 40 musical worlds, from DJing on the beach to playing drums in outer space.
Extensive library with 300+ sounds and growing.
Create your own unique worlds to share.
Collaborate with musicians and creators in real-time jams and world-building.
Amass an unlimited collection of sounds and instruments for your studio.
Seamlessly record and share your VR performances and creations.
Craft and share cinematic mixed reality content and films.
Enjoy unparalleled mixed reality features on supported devices.
Experience the richness of 3D spatial audio and a high-quality VR audio engine.
Personalization with full avatar support (now including Ready Player Me) and microphone input
Powerful studio-quality tools and sound
Connect with Ableton Live for comprehensive cross-reality studio integration.

Recent additions:

Full multiplayer support for live jam sessions and collaboration
Avatar support, including Ready Player Me
Web portal with the ability to import files and more
Community hub with world suggestions, search, and ready-made worlds created by pro patchers

What’s next:

Desktop version launch: access your worlds anytime, anywhere with the upcoming desktop version.
New Tools and Blocks. Let your imagination run wild with new music and world creation tools, including no-code development tools to create your own blocks and bring your ideas to life.
Marketplace: We’re building a marketplace for sharing and monetizing your creations

Testimonials

“This is the future of music! Musical worlds you can inhabit, interact with and become a part of. A completely psychedelic, immersive experience. I love it!”

“This has blown my mind.

By far the most incredible, mind-bending, exciting, and entertaining experience I’ve had in VR.”

“This is the best app.

It works with Ableton Link and in multiplayer. It is fun as it is useful and complex. It is potentially a DAW and a multiplayer game at the same time. As a music producer, this is the best software I have used so far in Quest 2. And also the tutorial worlds are very well done and sooo immersive and psychedelic.”

“Easy to play, and SO much fun!

The guided experience is top-notch: I’ve put on PatchWorld for inexperienced VR users and kids, and they’ve all had a blast! The guide’s humor is on point, the pre-loaded worlds are super immersive, and easy to modify like in a big sandbox…. .”

“The possibilities for collaborative music sessions across the globe would be enough to sell this app to me alone but add to that the world building, patching, and variety of tools available to you, and you have yourself not only a guaranteed good time with your friends (or strangers) but an excellent tool for music production, with an active and friendly discord community. The addition of DAW integration may well make this the future of VR music production, except it’s here, right now.”

Videos

Trailer

VR MIDI controller with Ableton Live

Gad burning the dancefloor in a live jam

Playing PatchWorld at Malibu Beach

A face-melting drum & bass set

Community showreel

Images

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Logo & Icon

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Press coverage

The 10 most innovative companies in augmented and virtual reality of 2023 Fast Company (2023)

PatchWorld shows power of multiplayer VR music, integrates with Ableton Live CDM (2023)

New VR Games July 2022: All The Biggest Releases Upload (2022)

PatchXR launches PatchWorld virtual-reality music-making app music:)ally (2022)

PatchXR turns writing music into a Metaverse VR experience where you can shape your music and visuals MusicTech (2021)

PatchXR opens the world of music to extended reality Makery (2021)

Abbey Road Red 10 to watch in 2021 Abbey Road (2021)

About PatchXR

PatchXR is a multinational studio blending unmatched experience in art, engineering, and sound and music for VR. The team has some of the world’s top talent in the emerging medium of immersive, generative, interactive music for full-sensory virtual reality. That lineage starts with co-founders Melodie Mousset and Eduardo Fouilloux, building on Melodie’s award-winning achievements in VR art and Eduardo’s pioneering work at Animation Studio Denmark and creating the music game prototype MuX.

PatchXR has assembled a global team and a powerful, complete, ground-up engine for VR music, sound, and play. We’ve tested our tools with diverse artists worldwide in closed beta and our Patchathon collaborative experience at top festivals. With that bespoke foundation and world-class experience in multiplayer experience and tech, we’re envisioning new, futuristic ways to play together with music, engaging the full body with vision and sound.