Chroma Lab is an interactive VR particle simulation physics sandbox
Chroma Lab is based around a high performance, built-from-scratch, particle physics engine that utilises the vast computing power of modern GPUs to calculate billions of individual forces per second, necessary for the particles to interact with each other and behave like a fluid (AMD Radeon and Nvidia GTX cards both work).
There is a variety of tools to interact with the particles as well as an options menu that allows you to customise the visuals and physics.
Key features
- Beautiful, psychedelic visuals
- Particles react to background music (any external music player is compatible, may not work with Bluetooth headphones)
- 300,000+ particles on a minimum VR spec computer
- Tools to pick up, hit, pull, explode, shoot and paint the particles
- Placeable force spheres which can also teleport the particles between one another
- Adjustable physics settings to change how the particles behave
- Multiple different particle shaders, color pallets and other graphics settings to choose from
- Throw blobs into orbit and create black holes
- Optional gravity and "lava lamp" mode
- Freeze the simulation and step through it one frame at a time
- Great as a first VR experience
- Adaptive resolution to maximise visual quality and minimise dropped frames
- Number of particles can be automatically determined or manually chosen