Anandala

Anandala is an interactive virtual reality art experience set in a vast labyrinth of changing abstract art. You fly through a skyborne world of complex shapes and colors that flow and evolve across its surfaces, exploring at your own pace alongside 130 unique, autonomous artificial lifeforms called Blorts. The Blorts are aware of themselves, one another and you, and interact through movement, changing color and texture, and their own musical language.

Explore the labyrinth

The labyrinth contains 12 portals of varying shapes. Passing through them takes you to different areas and can change the world’s textures, colors and lighting. A special portal near the labyrinth’s highest point leads to the Sky Shrine, where you can commune with the chanting High Priests of The Five Sacred Shapes and The Five Colossal Blort Deities. Golden rings around the Shrine’s rim serve as portals back to different locations in the labyrinth.

Meet the Blorts

You can speak to the Blorts in their own language by aiming a controller at one and pressing the relevant button. Each press makes a syllable, and successive presses form phrases. Some Blorts can bestow visions of mystical symbols.

Fly through Anandala

The game uses an intuitive, physics-based flight system designed to make flying comfortable for most people who are sensitive to motion. Point the controllers in the direction you want to travel and squeeze the triggers gently to move; squeezing further increases your speed. You can use either controller or combine them for more speed and maneuverability. Turn by moving your body or use the right joystick or thumbpad for snap turns.

Sound and atmosphere

A calming musical soundscape accompanies your exploration. The evolving textures and original ambient music are described as a source of brainwave entrainment intended to support presence, relaxation and transcendent states.