Try this trippy Meta Quest experience created with Generative AI
The meditation app Realms of Flow for Meta Quest has gotten a new AI-generated VR experience with sublime visuals.
Realms of Flow is a VR app that invites you to marvel, meditate and relax with breathtaking audiovisual experiences.
I've tried Realms of Flow on my Quest 3 last year and have been checking it out from time to time ever since, partly because developer Marc Zimmermann keeps adding new VR experiences.
Since my hands-on, six new experiences have been added for free, bringing the total number of VR experiences in Realms of Flow to 16. The new experiences are
- Vivid Flow & Edge of Now (released on December 12, 2023)
- Home Within (released on February 28, 2024)
- Dissolve (released on May 26, 2024)
- Nature's Calling & Altered States of Mycelia (released on August 12, 2024)
I watched Nature's Calling & Altered States of Mycelia for the first time today and the latter blew me away.
A great application for Generative AI
After Starry Blankets, Altered States of Mycelia is the second VR experience created with Generative AI. Unlike Starry Blankets, it consists entirely of abstract light patterns that pulsate, waft, and constantly change shape.
The experience can be visually altered by mirroring the patterns in the center, or by superimposing and fusing peripheral AI structures. The result is an enchanting, almost spiritual experience, a hypnotic feast for the eyes that is hard to tear away from.
Realms of Flow combines the exuberant imagination of AI with the visual power of virtual reality in a match made in heaven.
Further AI experiments planned
Zimmermann describes the AI-generated experiences as experimental, and they can now be found on a separate page in the VR app, which indicates that further experiences of this kind are in the pipeline. When I asked Zimmermann, he confirmed that further AI-generated experiences are planned.
While Starry Blankets was created with Stable Diffusion, Zimmermann used KreaAI to make Altered States of Mycelia. He used both text-to-image and image-to-video. The video was then upscaled using KreaAI as well. The After Effects plug-in Depth Scanner was used for the stereo conversion, Zimmermann tells me.
If you are interested in VR mediation, trippy VR experiences or creative AI applications, you should definitely take a look at Realms of Flow.
You can buy Realms of Flow for $15 on the Meta Horizon Store and on Steam.
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