Chroma Lab

Chroma Lab is a VR fluid simulation built around a custom particle physics engine. It uses modern GPUs to calculate billions of forces per second between individual particles, allowing them to interact and behave like a fluid. You can adjust the number of particles automatically based on your computer’s speed or set it manually.

Shape the particles

A range of tools lets you pick up, hit, pull, explode, shoot and paint particles. You can also throw blobs into orbit, create black holes, and place force spheres that can teleport particles between them. Optional gravity and “lava lamp” modes change how the simulation behaves, and you can freeze it or slow time to a crawl.

Customize the simulation

Adjust the physics settings, particle shaders, color palettes and other visual options. You can save and load particles and settings; the game also includes presets to get started. Particles can react to music from any external music player, though this may not work with Bluetooth headphones.

VR settings

You can adjust the scale and bounding walls to play from a seated position through to room scale. Chroma Lab offers intuitive controls and presets that can be selected outside VR, making it suitable as a first VR experience. It also supports MixCast for mixed reality and the native Oculus SDK for Rift and Touch users.