# paraview VR with collaboration

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-vr-with-collaboration/16642
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** vr
**Created:** [May 15, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-vr-with-collaboration/16642 "2025-05-15T15:39:19Z")
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### Author: ![goatchurchprime](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/goatchurchprime/32/15618_2.png) [@goatchurchprime](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/goatchurchprime)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-vr-with-collaboration/16642/1 "2025-05-15T15:39:19Z")

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I’m trying to test out the Paraview VR collaboration feature announced hereL  
[https://www.kitware.com/collaboration-between-caveinteraction-and-xrinterface-plugins/](https://www.kitware.com/collaboration-between-caveinteraction-and-xrinterface-plugins/)

But the only version of Paraview that I can download that appears to have any VR in it is from around 2021:

> [@OpenVR plugin in ParaView 5.8.0 -- pretty much just works!](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/openvr-plugin-in-paraview-5-8-0-pretty-much-just-works/3677/11):
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> Collaboration support isn’t in the nightly binary, so you either have to build it and turn that option on or you can download a prebuilt binary from here [https://data.kitware.com/#item/602fee7f2fa25629b98dbb7e](https://data.kitware.com/#item/602fee7f2fa25629b98dbb7e) With that binary you can do the following to test collaboration (with a buddy as you want more than one person to collaborate slight_smile Unzip the binary make sure your vr headset works with steamvr start steamvr run the PV binary load the state file included vrdemo3.pvsm set your N…

Am I looking in the wrong place for the prebuild binaries?

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### Author: ![Scott\_Wittenburg](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/scott_wittenburg/32/16472_2.png) [@Scott\_Wittenburg](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Scott_Wittenburg)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-vr-with-collaboration/16642/2 "2025-05-15T15:49:45Z")

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I don’t think those collaboration features made the cut for 5.13, but they should be included in nightly binaries, and they will definitely be in the next release.

Downloadable binaries can be found here: [https://www.paraview.org/download/](https://www.paraview.org/download/)

Hope it helps,  
Scott