Latest press release (20 December 2024):
Hand Tracking in PatchWorld frees your hands to explore, rewire, tweak, and play music like never before

PatchWorld: Build and play musical worlds with friends

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.

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, Pico, HTC VIVE XR Elite, Pico, Desktop ( beta )

Release date:
Available publicly on the Meta Quest store since summer 2022
Also available on HTC VIVE Port and Pico Store since 2023. Desktop version coming out of beta in 2025.

Store links:

Meta Quest Store

Pico Store

HTC VIVEPORT

Website:
https://www.patchxr.com

Regular Price:
$29.99

Press / Business contact:
Press@patchxr.com

Features and connectivity

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. The platform offers an unprecedented toolset:

Ready-made, ready-to-play Worlds; community-created instruments, devices, and environments
Community Hub, suggestions, and shareable user playlist features to discover more
Multiplayer support with real-time collaboration for play and world-building
Unlimited collections of pro-grade sounds and instruments for a virtual studio
High-quality, 3D Spatial audio engine
Deep, tailor-made Mixed Reality support on compatible devices
Full recording and sharing features, including Mixed Reality recording
Integration with Ableton Live Suite, Ableton Link, and Open Sound Control (OSC)

Recent additions:

Hand-Tracking - an innovative feature that allows you to interact with the app seamlessly without needing controllers. This cutting-edge functionality empowers you to craft content with unparalleled ease and precision. Get ready to unleash your creativity in the most intuitive way possible!
Ready Player Me Avatars—bring your own custom avatars to your worlds and live jams.
Collection Feature—Create and curate personalized collections and build evolving playlists of experiences that can be collaboratively developed with other users. These collections offer a new way to organize and discover content, with standout collections having the opportunity to be featured on the main page, creating an additional layer of community-driven content curation.

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

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Press coverage

Patch in VR using gestures, not controllers: PatchWorld update CDM (2024)

“It’s just going to get better over the next few years until everyone’s going to be wearing them”: How VR and AR could change music production MusicRadar (2024)

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

Named one of FastCompany’s “Most Innovative Companies,” PatchXR is an award-winning Swiss studio with years of experience in the creative and VR spaces at the forefront of VR development, working since 2020 on the bespoke Patch engine and PatchWorld tools. Co-founded by Mélodie Mousset, celebrated VR artist and technologist, musician and entrepreneur Gad Hinkis, and Eduardo Fouilloux, a ground-breaking music software developer.

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.