Join/Sign In

AA in VR — Virtual Reality AA Meetings

AA in VR virtual reality meeting room

Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings in Virtual Reality (AA in VR)

AA in VR brings Alcoholics Anonymous meetings into virtual reality. Members attend from home, with or without a VR headset, on platforms including Meta Horizon Worlds and VRChat.

What distinguishes AA in VR from standard online meetings is spatial presence. Members appear as avatars in 3D meeting rooms. Spatial audio makes other voices sound nearby — much closer to an in-person meeting than a video call. Additionally, the platform protects full anonymity by design. Members use no real names, show no faces, and share no location data.

The community grew directly from the COVID-19 pandemic. When in-person meetings closed, video conferencing left a gap in human connection. Virtual reality filled that gap. Since then, AA in VR has expanded across multiple platforms and now hosts regular meetings throughout the week on a published schedule.

Meetings follow traditional AA formats: speaker meetings, Big Book discussions, and open sharing. Moreover, they welcome anyone worldwide seeking support for alcoholism. No prior VR experience is necessary — experienced members help newcomers get started.

For members who face barriers to in-person attendance — whether geography, mobility, social anxiety, or stigma — AA in VR offers a meaningful path to connection and recovery. As one longtime organiser put it: real people, real voices, real recovery.

To find meeting times, visit aa-in-vr.org. For more on how the TIAA Forum supports online AA tools, see the Forum Categories page.

 

/Home/Related Organizations

Instructions for Completing this Form

Name:

The name you use here is not verified and only used to control for spam and bot submissions. It will not be tied to your account. You can create and edit a profile disclosing the account name and information you wish to expose to the community (not publicly visible outside the forum) when and after you join.

Email:

Email where the invitation to join will be sent. This will also become a secondary way of logging in or recovering your password. We recommend a personal email address (e.g. your_name@example.com) instead of a “positional” email address (e.g. webmaster@your_intergroup.org) unless you intend for you membership to rotate with the person holding the position in the future. This email address can be changed after you join if you wish to change it by editing your profile information.

Affirmation:

By the group conscience of the members, this forum is only open to members of AA and those non-members of AA supporting AA services (e.g. Intergroup offices, AA service structure, etc.).

Topic Interests:

If you are interested in conversations in more than one  technical topic area (e.g. web sites, answering services, virtual meetings, etc.) or have a general curiosity about AA discussions in general (e.g. topics above and beyond technology like committees and group dynamics), you would probably want to select the default “General” option.

If your primary interest is in Archives only, you probably want to select the “Archives” option. Note that with either option, you will still have access to all topics on the forum but with the “Archives” option, your “home screen” will automatically place you in the “Archives” category where most of those conversations happen.