Change your mind by visiting kaleidoscopic, cathedral-like spaces designed to relax, entrance and enhance.

## About This Game
Visitations is a collection of vignettes designed to relax, entrance, and
enhance the viewer’s state of mind. It makes use of techniques such as
binaural beats, subtle strobing, form constants, and includes a body scan
meditation, a dream induction, and a soundtrack developed by a healer with
experience leading traditionally inspired ceremonies. The experiences in
Visitations allow users to turn inwards and explore their own stories and
mental states. The spaces are open vessels waiting to be filled by the
conscious intentions of the users. Ancient shamans intuitively understood the
power of the mind, and that their performances would conjure the body’s innate
ability to heal. Modern medicine accomplishes a similar effect with lab coats
and pills. Visitations employs technology to similar ends.

Development

Visitations has been designed from the ground up for use with stand-alone VR
headsets like the Go, Quest and even phone based VR which greatly improves
accessibility and ease of use. The scenes run in real-time and are
procedurally generated. They never loop and are always different allowing them
to be an effective object of meditation.

Art is Therapy

Ancient shamans intuitively understood the power of the mind, and that their
performances would conjure the body’s innate ability to heal. Modern medicine
accomplishes a similar effect with lab coats and pills. We are beginning to
understand that technology can be employed to similar ends.

The Spirit of Experimentation

We are at the start of a long journey. Visitations is a place for artists and
scientists to collaborate on experiments which will lead to a vocabulary and a
set of best practices to achieving a variety of different therapeutic and
aesthetic goals.

Techniques

Subtle Strobing Lights – have been shown to directly affect brainwaves,
inducing dissociative states, even helping prevent Alzheimer’s.

Binaural and Isochronic Beats – have a similar ‘brainwave entraining’ effect
as strobing lights and have been used for decades in meditation practices.

Form Constants – are geometric patterns which appear during altered states
such as hypnogogia and hallucinations.

Tunnels – draw the eye to a single point in the distance.

Body Scan – is a common meditation practice, employed in Vipassana meditation
and others.

Use Cases

* Inner Journeys
* Relaxation/Focus
* Mood Modification
* Mini-Vacations
* Mindfulness
* Distraction Therapy
* Infusion Therapy
* Mental Reset
* Meditation Assistance

Visitations