Patch 1.4 - Altered Worlds This new patch will take you into a different kind of customizable world to relax, meditate, or try to achieve higher planes of mediation. This is experimental world for advanced meditators to experiment with pseudoscience levels of brain states such as remote viewing, parallel universes, and much more the mind might be capable of.
If your interested in the thoughts behind this patch, checkout the declassified "Gateway Process" project the CIA did back in the 80s. Fly through space Float, Fly, or fall through a quantum realm. Choose from any background, or just pick a white room with no distractions.
Patch 1.3 ASMR Playground!
Patch 1.3 - ASMR Playground! Spawn this speaker anywhere in the world and as many as your computer can handle! Choose from over 100 ASMR loops and more than 1 at a time if you want. Its really a sensation with 3D sounds all around you!
Grab and move it anywhere you want, even when its playing. Its nice and compact when you close the sound menu.
Spawn in your favorite locations:
Patch 1.25 Save/Load System to build your own custom garden!
Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with now that you can pretty much design your own garden!
The save/load system is finished and added a button to delete the existing flowers. So in essence you can completely customize your own garden. 25 varieties/variations of plants, a pot and a few planters.
Fixed/updated the menu system so its easier to jump menus. (Like if your in the interact menu and want to go to the beats menu, you no longer have to go back to main, you can jump right to it) Working heavily on the ASMR spawner and will be the next update!
V1.22 Update - More Interactables!
Interact Stations - added a bowling station that gives points based on physical movement of the pins. Just a fun way to blow off steam before a meditation session. Interactables - Added a campfire with a nice glowing light you can spawn anywhere! Or 10 if you want. Also added a lantern you can carry around 2 different ways.
Placeables & Save/Load System - Added 1 type of flower with 3 variants to start testing the flower placement and save/load system. These are place able objects that are not grabbable but are using the save system which saves there placement every few minutes and will load upon restarting. This is going to allow you to customize the world even more in the future!
VR Zen Garden 1.2 and Beyond (Roadmap)
1.2 Interactions Update And 50% off Sale! This update introduces Interactables and Stations. A drawing station you can spawn anywhere to draw, write affirmations, things you are thankful for, or words to meditate on. You can also delete the pad and have the text floating in space. Other stations includes a table and a variety of rocks you can practice stacking, arrange in the sand garden, or anywhere you wish. The item interactables include candles to light with a match or with the fire pit. Place these candles anywhere in the world, hold them, let them light each other or arrange them in patterns. Spawn the backpack in to carry some or duplicate any items as well. There is no limits to how much you can spawn in except your computer. I’ve tested spawning in dozens of rocks and candles and pushed it to the limit. There is a delete button to clear them out if your system gets bogged down, but I wanted to give you as much freedom as possible. Level System and Titles Earn XP just by being in the Zen Garden and earn much more when listening to musics, beats, or meditations. Lighting candles also grants XP. Work your way from Beginner to Zen Master! Its a great way to see how far you can progress in your training of the mind.
Sand Garden The sand garden got a retouch and looks much better now.
Roadmap 2023 This is a great time to let us know what you would like to be able to spawn, or an idea for an interactive system.
v1.21 will introduce more interactables and stations. Campfires and Lanterns you can place anywhere is coming, and other think we though about is a simple bowling system (thought it would be fun to bowl off the dock), archery in the forest.
V1.2.2-5 – Placeables - Flowers / Plants that can be placed down and saved so you can have a bit of a customization to the garden. May even go as far to allow you to remove the stock flowers and fully customize the garden if it doesn’t bog down the game.
V1.3 ASMR Playground Update I am working on a system to spawn a speaker and have it float anywhere you want and you pick a custom ASMR sound loop. Since VR has 3D audio making sounds all around you can be very fun and relaxing. I was remembered by a time playing Zenith we put a bunch of containers that bubbled all around a person and the sound was amazing.
V1.4 Outer Worlds Update I am also experimenting with other alternative worlds that can be possible in VR. Like a world just made of bubbles or colors and a world like the white room from the matrix. Removing all visual stimuli to relax the mind in a deep meditation or even trance like meditations.
V1.5 Maybe? I have been training with Hemi-Sync and The Gateway Process (Little CIA project in the 80s) to induce deep states of relaxation to allow the mind to escape the body, a sort of out of body experience. Some believed to even allow for remote viewing and transcending time and space itself with the mind. I asked ChatGPT the outcome of the over decade study and it seems the scientific community is divided on whether the phenomena is “Real” or just in the mind. In any case it’s interesting to explore and would love to add something similar based on the process.
VR Zen Garden 1.1 Free Binaural Beats DLC!
Binaural Beats
This DLC brings over 5 hours of Binaural beat music to VR Zen Garden!
When you hear two tones in each ear that are slightly different in frequency, your brain processes a beat at the difference of the frequency. This is called a binaural beat. Your brain gradually falls into synchrony with the difference.
Delta: 1-4 Hz - Deep sleep, Healing and pain relief, Anti-aging: cortisol reduction/DHEA increase, Access to the unconscious mind
Theta: 4-8 Hz - Deep relaxation, reduced anxiety, Creativity
Alpha: 8-14 Hz - Relax and focus, Reduce Stress, Maintain positive thinking, Increase your learning capabilities
Beta: 14-30 Hz - Keeping your attention focused, Analytical thinking and solving problems, Stimulating energy and action, High-level cognition
Gamma: 30-100 Hz - Increased cognitive enhancement, Attention to detail, helping in memory recall, A different way of thinking, which is a sign of creativity.
1.05 Added Dense clouds/fog for high detail level
1.05 Added Dense clouds/fog for high detail level 1.04 Added GFX detail level buttons and menus 1.03 Fixed cloud/sky system, fixed intro music
Patch 1.02
Patch 1.01 Fixed exit menu. 1.02 Made Menu Toggle Canvas bigger and easier to find.
VR Zen Garden 1.0 Prerelease!
We are close to getting out of early access into a 1.0 Release for VR Zen Garden. Its been quite a journey from the early days, from upgrading Unity, to switching pipelines, adding new arm menus, plants, trees, weather systems and so much more! Thanks for those who have been with us through the beginning and kept us pushing this application further.
Leaving early access won't mean we are done, it just means we think we are in a stable full game experience. We actually have a free DLC right around the corner we have been working on alongside this update.
What new in 1.0? Graphics Engine We have upgraded to the Universal Render Pipeline so we can get higher graphics fidelity as well as better optimization for VR. This meant a massive over hall of all textures, water, trees, and plants. The new tree systems looks so much more alive and vibrant now and we spent a lot of time hand placing them. UI Menus & Player We have added options for teleport movement and smooth movement as well as snap/smooth turning. Added options to pause, resume, and stop audio, and time status. Added an exit menu Added menus for future content Added teleport for the flower bed area Added 2 new meditation music only tracks, about an hour each Butterfly Tents We have a new feature near the Eastern lake, the Butterfly Tent. Complete with a bed to lay down and relax! Optimization We spend even more time optimizing and got this to run at about 70fps on a OLD GTX-1050! We definitely recommend having more power for VR, but this was a great success for such a detailed world. And it gives us headroom to add more.
V0.90 UPDATE NEW VR-Player system, Arm Menu, Teleports, Dynamic lights / Shadows
Unity 2021 Reconstructed with the latest stable Unity3d version and the latest version of Envrio (clouds, weather, seasons, day/night cycle) Upgraded to OpenVR / OpenXR capability.
VR-Player System New VR player interaction system with remote grabbing abilities, teleport and smooth locomotion options, and the ability to add much more. This also meant we had to rework all objects and menu systems.
Arm Menu System Now you can change your meditations anywhere in the world. We also included a new Teleport menu to teleport to your favorite spots!
Lighting / Optimizations With the new Enviro we have tweaked all the lighting, day / night cycles and dynamic shadows as the sun and moon move throughout the day. We added a ton of optimizations and tweaks to make it look good and run well on mid range systems. This is a pretty detailed world with a lot of moving trees, grasses, leaves, birds, butterflies, etc. So we do recommend a GTX 3070 or higher. Its not a game meant to be zooming around and running, so it should run (good enough) on lower end machines, just find a nice place to sit back, relax, listen, and breathe. Seasons / Weather We added Summer with the seasons menu which adds chances of rain. You start off in the Spring which will has no rain. And winter works like before, it will change the landscape to a winter wonderland and add chances of snow. The nights are a bit darker and feel right with the nice big moon.
Shed We left a little Easter-egg in the shed to experience the world a different way. :) We used it for debugging, but thought it might be nice to allow the player to reach new heights.
Patch Notes 0.90 Unity 2021, VRIF System, teleport, arm menu, dynamic lighting and shadows, optimizations. 0.80 Major optimizing changes for textures. 0.79 Fix some texture bugs. 0.78 4 Day seasons and quick change between winter and spring, starts in summer. 0.77 Added 3 more type of partly cloudy stages and rain. 0.76 Added support for Season changes 0.75 Optimizing and Winter Wonderland Update 0.74 Added snow terrain. 0.73 Snow effects added and weather starts with snowing. 0.71 Organized panels, added music sections with 3 titles, 2 new. Thanks for letting us journey together!
