VanDusen Wellness Experience VR

VanDusen Wellness Experience VR explores how a real natural environment can become the foundation for an interactive and reflective VR experience. Built around 360° botanical garden capture, the project combines the presence of a real place with gentle forms of participant agency and embodied interaction.

Rather than relying on conventional challenge or progression, the experience encourages participants to slow down, observe their surroundings, make choices about their journey, and engage with mindfulness activities including stone balancing, guided meditation, and Zen raking.

The project reflects my interest in the relationship between presence, interaction, spatial experience, and storytelling, and in how VR can use participation itself as part of the experience.