# Updates to Virtual Reality support in ParaView

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/updates-to-virtual-reality-support-in-paraview/2046
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** vr
**Created:** [June 14, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/updates-to-virtual-reality-support-in-paraview/2046 "2019-06-14T14:13:26Z")
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### Author: ![martink](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/martink/32/2082_2.png) [@martink](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/martink)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/updates-to-virtual-reality-support-in-paraview/2046/6 "2019-06-18T17:59:39Z")

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Using the new vtkQWidgetWidget class in VTK (event handling). Which in turn uses a vtkQWidgetRepresentation which uses a vtkQWidgetTexture (the actual drawing). The basic gist is we share a texture between Qt and VTK. Qt paints the texture, VTK then renders it as part of the VR world.

This MR has the key pieces [https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge\_requests/5553/diffs](https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/5553/diffs)

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