System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £4.99
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Relaxation and Meditation
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: Cerevrum Inc. is taking VR meditation to the next level and is offering a unique sophisticated experience of finding your inner self. Take a minute and ask yourself the following questions. How stressed are you feeling right now? Do you experience anxiety, frustration, exhaustion? Do you suffer from insomnia and/or lack of focus? In the contemporary world it is hard to keep up with its hectic pace. That’s why meditation is no longer just a hobby but a pure necessity. Embrace 8 astonishing visuals of a Japanese garden, a Tibetan room, wildfire, beach, underwater, Mars, a spaceship, and air floating. This beautiful scenery will take you to travel across the world and beyond in the split second. Complete 6 different sessions are guided both by a pleasant voice and an uplifting visual figure which will inspire you to breathe properly and develop right inner pacing. Better meditation – better life.
Review: There might be lots of relaxation and meditation apps for various VR systems, but they often only give you the space to relax, they don’t guide you on the journey you need to take towards becoming focused and grounded. That is where House of Meditation comes in to save the meditation app genre. Featuring 8 different locations: A Japanese garden, Tibetan room, wildfire, beach, underwater, Mars, a spaceship, and air floating. Then inside each of those locations, there are 6 different guided breathing sessions to help you get the most out of them.
There is nothing complicated to learn here, you get around with the Oculus Remote and your own head movements. So look, click, relax! The guiding voice is calm and relaxing enough as is the symbol of breathing that is always in front of you. If you have ever wished to learn about meditation, this is a great place to start.
House of Meditation is a house of two halves. The first half features beautiful environments and somewhere that you can really ground yourself and relax, the other half is a cheap cartoon mess that isn’t that nice to be. Some of the music is nice, sometimes it’s annoying (but you can’t turn it off). If you have ever wanted to get into meditation without going to classes, this could be the perfect way to do just that. Or maybe you need that escape from the office or work life. What it isn’t is for people looking for a more advanced meditation experience, but for beginners, it’s more than adequate.
