Virtual Idea Area: can your PC run it? Price and reviews

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What's new

Virtual Idea Area becomes open source and free

2026-02-10

It's been almost 9 years since Virtual Idea Area has been released and in that time the virtual reality landscape has changed a lot. VIA has not. Rather than continue to charge money for an outdated application I have decided to make Virtual Idea Area open to anyone in its current state. Because of compatibility issues on many modern computers I have decided to suspend sales and distribution on Steam rather than just making the application free (but existing owners will still be able to install and use VIA as always). Instead, the final application build and source code have been made available on the home page. Many thanks to everyone who has bought and used Virtual Idea Area in these past 9 years! (Note: at time of writing VIA is still available for sale. This will change soon. Please do not buy the application and simply download the free version from the home page instead,)

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What players say

5 user reviews

60% positive, 5 reviews

Recommended5 hrs played

My strongest recommendation! Up to now, for me it is the best "whiteboard simulator" in Steam and in VR. I really like whiteboards, and this is the program I've been looking for since I've bought my Vive headset. Very simple and beautiful interface. Also drawing with the down side of a controller is very convinient. Great app and it does what it should do, but I would recommend to add some more instruments like...

7 found this helpful, 2017-04-14

Recommended3 hrs played

Really simple, but quite useful functionality, I like this for planning and coming up with ideas etc. So far though I've had a number of crashes which is quite frustrating (especially as it erases some progress... not ideal in an idea area). Pros: - Does exactly what it says, an infinite area with near-infinite white boards (haven't tested how many I can have yet) - Tons of space! - Doesn't feel disorienting /...

4 found this helpful, 2017-04-23

Not recommended1 hrs played

just a simple whiteboard in your VR headset. does perfectly what it says, although there are some caveats. - hard to actually write down stuff legibly with the vive controller (some kind of haptic feedback if the pen is touching the whiteboard would really help.) - needs to have more functionality to it, e.g. being able to access your desktop or even calculators, so that you do not actually have to go out of VR all...

1 found this helpful, 2017-04-25

Virtual Idea Area

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What's new

Virtual Idea Area becomes open source and free

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