Разработчик: Cubicle Ninjas
Описание
Meditation made simple & visual.
Bring peace, joy, and calm back into your daily life with the virtual relaxation app Guided Meditation VR. Transform your home into an exotic, relaxing escape.
– ENVIRONMENTS –
Escape the everyday in one of over 27 lush environments, each with unique, customized meditation spots.
– GUIDED MEDITATIONS –
Enjoy over 16 hours of custom guided sessions in Zen, Heartfulness, Movement, Loving Compassion, or Relaxation. Learn ancient meditation practices in a cutting-edge way.
– CUSTOMIZATION –
Prefer a 10, 5, or 2-minute meditation? Music? Radio? Customize your experience to be perfect, just for you.
– NEXT GEN RELAXATION –
Not a fan of meditation? Trek through nature at your own pace. Listen to the radio. Use the music Visualizer. Custom made for Virtual Reality, refined for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows Mixed Reality HMDs.
– FLOAT ON –
Relax in style as you gently float automatically through beautiful vistas. Motion mode is like a lazy river for your mind. Leave the worries of your daily life behind for a short VR vacation and return refreshed.
– FRESH CONTENT –
Enjoy new relaxation environments, meditations, teachers, and features in free future Early Access updates.
Leave the worries of your life for a short virtual vacation, and return calmer and stronger. Find your happy place.®
Thoughts on the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift DK2, Oculus Go, and Gear VR editions:
“Guided Meditation’ Proves That ‘VR Relaxation’ Will Almost Certainly Become Its Own Genre”
– Road to VR
"A brilliant way to clear your head of distractions and frustrations."
– Polygon
"Cubicle Ninjas might have just set out to relax the world with Guided Meditation VR, but their passion project could become a revolution [...]"
– UPLOAD VR
“When I removed the headset, I felt euphoric. Part of me had expected the experience to be an anti-climax, but instead, it had been a revelation […] My happy, creative mood lasted the rest of the day.”
– IDEO Stories
"If you’re new to meditation, and don’t have access to a class or a teacher, and you’re looking to learn some of the basics of a guided practice like loving-kindness, an app like Guided Meditation VR would help."
– Health
"Slowly, I let the pixelated environment float into my consciousness. I find my eyes resting on the lapping waves that reflect the clouds—a perfect visualization for a metaphor the narrator offers me, to think of my thoughts as clouds and let them pass."
– Fast Company
"Takes relaxation to high-tech levels."
– PSFK
"Turn it on and relax your body and soul."
– ARNEXT
Find your happy place.®
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 8
- Processor: Intel i5-4590
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 25 GB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR
- Additional Notes: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, or Windows Mixed Reality HMD Required
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i7-4770
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 25 GB available space
- Additional Notes: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, or Windows Mixed Reality HMD Required
Mac
Linux
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I really enjoy this concidering I'm a netowrking engenire and achitech for amazon web servicves but this needs to be upddated some more inuitive thought put in it especially adding co-iop or moulti-player to be able to have the ability to have couple be able to go into the expirience together for tharipudic effect
amazing environment for sleeping and dating with your dream girl in your head !
wonderful to have them
the game stop working suddenly without any reason, even thought i tried many time and with different computers, but still i can't run this app anymore
I started this game in 2019. I used it during a family tragedy and it saved my life. I can't say enough positive about it. I have used it in Steam with the Valve Index and now for quite a while on Oculus Quest 2. I use it every day during Yoga and while I am doing cardio on my stationary bike. On Steam it is a very heavy program and if your PC is not maximized, it will not work well and often crash. Sadly for such an breakthrough creation at the time, it also seems unfinished. My guess is that they stopped developing for Steam and worked really hard on the one for Oculus. The scenery on Oculus is much more refined and is gorgeous, but I miss the fact the you cannot explore on Oculus as you can with this version. I would pay a lot more to see this Steam Version updated and refined, I would pay for add-ons etc. I still do not like subscriptions, but let's just say that I would pay for each updated scene separately, because there is a handful of scenes that I absolutely love. Meditation-wise they are fantastic and unique. People ask on Oculus which they should choose between this program and Tripp. I would say I still prefer this Guided Meditation VR because the scenery is full of light, it is a pleasure and a relief to use it before or after a day's work. Tripp's visuals are way too dark and a bit gaudy. The meditations are varied, not the same again and again, but of all styles. On Quest you have more Meditation choices.I would still recommend this program on Steam, only if you have a good PC system. For Meta, I have actually tested these games, and I would say despite the fact that it is obvious that the game has been sort of abandoned by the developers (?), it is one of the best VR breakthrough creations so far when it comes to experiences. Again, I don't know where I would be without it during our family tragedy, but it sustained me and offered that little bit of space for me to survive. Thank you Ninja Cubicles!
Okay so I've had this game for quite a while now, and I use it still from time to time.
If you're just looking for a relaxing atmosphere this game sure has a bunch of mix and match worlds/ambiences, they're nice and can be thoroughly relaxing. The guidance that each focus can bring is fairly enthralling and helps you ease your mind more. I've explored a bunch of different sets of audio, as well as completed Zen a few times, (to me it has been my favourite).
You will come to find you will often end up picking different worlds and music for very different moods. Some days you are in the desert, others in the tundras, and again others in fields or lakes. However again, with so much use and how moods can be, you will end up finding with enough time you want to change the mood up more, and that therein lies the problem for longer term use.
After so much use, there's a ever wanting desire of more. Seeing as this game only sees updates anymore on Quest, and as good as this software can be, it sort of pales in comparison to the now free (or cheaper) content you can get elsewhere, such as VRChat and similar. Alongside the notion you can get free meditation audio too (Guided Meditation VR has their own free to listen materials as well).
Had this the same features and same extensive worlds that the Quest version had, I'd heartily recommend this to just about anyone, (the environments are really well made). But, seeing as this Steam version was left behind, I can't exactly recommend it to everyone anymore, knowing people would be paying for an abandoned yet still ongoing project elsewhere.
Come the day this app gets a full PC port of the Quest materials/features, then I'd again praise this software.
Until then, it feels like this is just an artifact of the older gen VR days.
The controls and use of the game, while not vitally important in an atmosphere app, still feel very aged.
This review was written after experiencing about 30 minutes of the "game". I did the introduction which was really cool. Some of the environments were familiar in feel to me and brought back memories of real life adventures. Drifting into the Redwoods almost made me cry happy tears, well it did actually. anyway I did a guided mediation and found it to be very relaxing. When the guided part finishes, I think you kind of do laps of the environment which is big enough to leave me guessing it was doing slow laps, but idk for sure. You get to pick your environments and music and meditation type. Although the visuals aren't perfect in every way, they are most certainly adequate for a lovely experience. Picky things that I noticed were that wild flowers are kind of 2-D flat and some trees on hillsides aren't growing toward the sun perfectly. The fact that I am being that picky though, is because the overall effect is stunning. I loved it and definitely recommend it to others. I did the Arborialis/movement choices. Although it's likely not part of the designers intent, I kept wishing that after the guided part an occasional pack of arctic wolves, herd of caribou or some other signs of life would pass by, like in the under water one with turtles and fish. Seeing a couple of non-hibernating animals will go respectfully onto my wish list to the makers.
Really VERY beautiful places and amazing music! Just right what you probably need to relax and clear your mind and enjoy of being.
p.s. Only one bad thing - only english metitaion audio supported.
Most impressive graphics I have seen in VR so far. Really pretty environments. Cons: Really weird and clunky non-standard teleportation control scheme. Voice over often tells me to close my eyes. WTF, I'm using $1000 hardware to be immersed in a beautifully rendered 3D environment with 6 DOF...and you're telling to me experience it exactly like an mp3 file I could download for free off the internet and listen to with $2 headphones? This contributes to the impression that they just got a bunch of guided meditation tracks and slapped them together with cool 3D environments, without any thoughts of creating any sort of unified experience. Which is ok... It's really cool to have gorgeous environments to meditate in. So if that's what you want, it's pretty worth it.
The game didn't respect the "Music volume" option because it kept playing the music even though I disabled it. It immediately starts moving you which made me sick and there was no option to disable this. I tried maybe four or five times to boot up the game before it _finally_ figured out I had controllers. All together a dreadful experience. 1/10 because the environments in the trailer look nice.
DO NOT BUY.
The game is abandonware. They put it in early access for ages but then abandoned the steam version. It still gets updates... just not here.
The early access label is pretty deceptive at this point.
If you're in the market for a good vr meditation app I'd look at DeepStates[VR] or Nature Treks VR instead.
Fantastic game but may suffer from the OpenSSL crash bug on Intel 10th and 11th generation processors:
https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/openssl-sha-crash-bug-requires-application-update.html
Until we have a permanent fix, we have a workaround that should let the users affected play the game. You can find it below.
Step 1. Open "Control Panel" by searching for it in Windows search bar, by pressing the Windows button or key.
Step 2. Go to "System & Security"
Step 3. Go to "System"
Step 3. Press "Advanced system settings"
Step 4. Press "Environmental Variables"
Step 5. Create a new "System Variable" (NOT USER VARIABLE)
Step 6. Enter the following into the Variable name box: OPENSSL_ia32cap
Step 7. Enter the following into the Variable value box: ~0x20000000
Step 8. Now press OK.
You may need to restart your system for the changes to take effect.
It was a wonderful and beautiful experience!
Like other contents, it was very immersive in that it was modeled directly, not just by photography.
If you want to see beautiful nature through VR, I strongly recommend this game!
TL;DR: I don't recommend buying this game because it has been in EAP for too long without any significant update that improves the existing experience or provides a new one. There's a clear room for improvement.
WARNING: This game was published in 2016 as part of the Early Access Program. I decided to buy it in January 2020. Since then, I don't remember seeing any update for the game since today (end of April 2021, AKA 1 year and 3-4 months), still being in its EAP phase.
The game immerses you in several visual and relaxing environments, where you can move in any direction. However, as a "meditation game", you should not expect anything else but the environment with their sounds.
As its current stage, being in EAP for that long with its, still, lack of regular updates, without an option for having a virtual guide or teacher that tells you what to do, just standing (or sitting) while moving around the place you have chosen, and so on, I'm afraid I must say I don't recommend this game.
I am more than happy to review it again if, at some point, all these previously commented points are amended. But, for now, I can't get rid of the feeling this game is just a prototype, and it still has a long roadmap ahead.
absolutely wonderful. the variety of environments are great and the guided meditations were good too. I can't wait for them to upgrade the fidelity of the environments in a sequel. It would be truly something special
This quiet, unpretentious application is one of the best constructed easiest to get into things I have used in VR and is one of the go to things that I use when I show off the powers of VR to friends. It is easy to navigate. It has a ton of environments that are incredibly rendered. It isn't just "sit on a mountainside and meditate to pretty music." No, you can explore the environments. I just meditated in a Japanese village on the side of a mountain next to a waterfall AND YOU CAN EXPLORE EVERYTHING! I went under the waterfall. I explored about 20-30 different buildings in the village - including inside the buildings. These aren't just one room shacks. They have multiple floors. They have balconies. I explored a secret bamboo glen that I had to go through a mountain archway. And they have 27 of these environments.
And the meditations are top notch as well. They claim to have 16 hours of meditation on a lot of different topics (pregnancy, stress, sleep, etc.) and these are broken up into differing durations designed to fit how much time you have available. You can choose different music styles of background music (or even streaming radio).
I've had this for a couple of years now. This is the best meditation program I've ever tried. Having said that, development has stopped. Several of the environments are flagged as new as if the authors were adding new stuff, but it has been stuck in that state since I got it. I wish someone would pick this up again, or make a similar program.
A nearly perfect VR meditation space with a very large selection of guided meditations, environments, and music that you can combine in endless combinations. This is far and away the best (definitely the most fully featured) VR meditation app available... and I'm pretty sure I've tried them all. Bring on more add-ons... I'd be happy to pay for them to support these devs.
I love the ability to move to ANY point in your mediation environment... including hovering in the air. My favorite spots are hovering above the trees while birds flock and swoop around me.
Suggestions for the devs
I'd like to see higher quality, more photo realistic environments, but it's a minor grumble. I'd also like to see the ability to turn on/off the meditation vocal visualizations (pulsating colored light) in any area, not only the "Visualization" mode... and maybe a variety of visualizations to choose from.
I really wanted to like this product but I am so sorry I wasted my money on it. This thing is full of problems. I had the free version on my gear vr and it also had problems but I saw the good reviews here so I tried it on my Rift, I used it for panic attacks only to find it caused more problems then it was worth.
I would strap my rift on and fire up the program only to have it crash 50% of the time, the graphics are nice when you look straight on but when you move around you see a lot of 2d images. Sometime the sound doesn't play at all and when it does it never plays through my headset always my speakers no matter what settings I change.
My biggest problem is the crashing and lack of support. I completely feel that this title has been abandoned and I would be shocked if the dev will update it further. So sadly I must say stay away from this one.
This game is a breakthrough! Hoping to see more experiences like this.
Pros:
-Tons of meditation content, there are dozens. You can go hours without repeating any, and they keep adding more worlds and recordings occasionally
-Beautiful and relaxing environments
-The headset takes you out of the real world for a little while
-You can teleport around
-Nice audio quality from recordings and background sounds
Cons:
-Graphics aren't perfect. They are stunning, but the ground is pretty flat looking and the textures are not the greatest
-You'll need a good graphics card to get good visuals, otherwise it is pretty pixelated (like any VR game, but it's really obvious when you are just sitting there looking at scenery)
-The scaling is never quite right. You tend to feel like you are floating high up instead of standing
-No interaction with environment. It would be really cool to see the game involve you in some kind of movement meditation, but that may be beyond the scope of this game (maybe someone could make a game like that, or Cubicle Ninjas could do it).
This is a well thought through game application (I won't call it a game, because it isn't one).
I've had spells of meditation in the past, especially during troubling times... So I am talking purely from my own experiences here (I'm not a meditation expert). But I definitely think that this is aimed at a particular audience... I'll share my views below:
Good bits
- If you're easily distracted like me, then this game WILL help you to learn how to clear your mind. I used audio guided meditation for some time, then progressed to relaxing music.
- When you play this, make sure that you're comfortable. A cushion helps if you're on the floor, or find a comfortable chair. It helps.
- The voices for the guidance are fantastic. If you are the kind of person to find particular voices relaxing (Morgan Freeman, David Attenborough etc) then you'll really like the guidance in here.
- There's MANY choices for guidance that cover a decent array of issues. You can choose to have guidance to help tackle anxiety, or you can go for Zen.
- You can choose between 2, 5 and 10 minute sessions. It gives plenty of choice if you're pushed for time. However, this leads on to a bad point:
The bad bits
- You can't select more than 10 minutes, or if you can then I didn't figure out how. So, you select a 10 minute Meditation, you're placed into this wonderful, serene, picturesque landscape, you're guided into a relaxed state over 10 minutes.... Then suddenly the landscape vanishes and you are back at the menu. This needs fixing ASAP. It completely destroys the experience for me.
- It needs an 'open' mode. You're supposed to try and use the same space for meditation, I think once you're accustomed to the surroundings you could visit without the need for guidance or voices. Just a mode where you can visit a place and stay for as long as you like would be nice.
(Sorry if any of these ARE features, I couldn't find them if so)
There's nothing more to say on it. This game is worth the money and will hopefully have additional features implemented in the future.
So, I took a chance on this game, and I must say, it paid off.
Full disclosure: I bought this experience for my hippie girlfriend. She likes to meditate.
I bought it and logged in to check out the features and made sure it ran on my PC as I am running Windows 7 and this game is intended for Win10. Thankfully the game runs and I'm hoping they do some more testing and optimization for Win7 for future updates.
The interface is smooth and clean, though can select the wrong inputs if you "outrun" it or go too fast for the interface to keep up. The number of environments is very decent for the amount this experience is going for. The environments are widely varied and all are in full 3D and can be explored through teleportation. Movement is not restricted to the ground, and you can also teleport and move through the air, giving some very interesting and revealing views on the environments.
There is a limit to immersion though, as no element I could find was interactive. I understand this is intended more as a guided meditation aid, but I think simple activities such as making ripples in a small pond, raking the sand in Temple Adonis, or brushing aside hanging vines would increase the ability to get lost in these environments and find another type of zen stress relief. Not sure if this kind of interaction is possible, but I have a feeling it would be welcome for those who are interested in getting lost in a world.
As for the guided meditation and welcoming nature of this experience, I can say that while my girlfriend loves VR, she has always left one headphone out as a way to ground herself. This was the first game where she put both headphones in, smiled, and allowed herself to go through a few guided relaxation sessions. Afterward, she told me she wanted to make this a daily routine. The smile on her face is all the answer I need.
For anyone who has the horsepower, graphics options and in-game supersampling are included, and effects are applied in realtime, allowing you to adjust a scene for optimal performance.
The amount of options when it comes to music, meditation type, narration, duration, and environment are pretty staggering. There's options for 2-minute routines, 5-minute routines, and much more, with different levels of meditation, and different guides and topics to help you achieve a more personalized session.
There were certain areas where you could "peel back the curtain" and see angles and areas you weren't meant to, but as someone who likes to explore, I actually found that fun. The graphics are well done, detailed full 3D models and are certainly not the same as the geometric cutouts in the main trailer.
As this software is still in Early Access, I am definitely looking forward to seeing what additions and enhancements are made, as well as seeing improvements in the UI and less background noise in the spoken narratives.
All in all, I highly recommend this experience for anyone who wants to get away and find a lot of calm in another world. Although if you're someone looking for a game, with stuff to do and things to win, this isn't the purchase for you. as for myself, I love the worlds on offer here and even as static backgrounds, are fun to walk around in with some cool music in the background. I can't wait for more.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Cubicle Ninjas |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 22.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 77% положительных (100) |