FLOAT - A MIXED REALITY EXPERIENCE

The fate of the Pookis lies in your hands!

Once upon a time, the Pookis lived in peaceful harmony with nature—gentle beings, deeply connected to the Tree of Life that held their floating island together. But one day, a sinister thunderstorm anomaly shattered the silence. A powerful bolt of lightning struck the heart of the tree. The crystal, source of all balance, shattered—and with it the island.

The island pieces now lie shattered and scattered throughout the world. The Pookis are separated from one another, lost among the rubble. Only you can save them and restore balance to their world.

The Team & the Project

As part of our third-semester project, we are developing the mixed-reality game FLOAT for Meta Quest 2 and higher. 

FLOAT combines immersive hand-tracking controls with an imaginative game world in which the floating islands are inhabited by mystical creatures – the Pooki. The goal is to use intuitive gesture interaction to collect movement data that will support a startup in developing smart prosthetics. The data will be analyzed using AI and translated into usable movement patterns. The project combines innovative game design with social value and demonstrates how playful experiences can contribute to medical research.

The VR puzzle game FLOAT is the result of a collaborative project by Jennifer Bell, Lars Gohde, Emil Judin, Sebastian Dreschmann, Kevin Bruno and Marius Maucher.

Achievements & Milestones

Won a Varjo XR-4 headset through a university competition for outstanding student XR projects

Featured at the HNU Science Slam to present our concept to a broader academic audience

Showcased FLOAT at the GermanDevDays 2025 – one of Germany’s most relevant game developer conferences

Exhibited FLOAT at the HNU Werkschau – and proudly won the “Best Game” award

Presented FLOAT at the very first PlayCon in Neu-Ulm, celebrating games, creativity and innovation

Won a sponsored delegation trip to DEVCOM 2025 – connecting with international game dev professionals

Showcasing FLOAT at GAMESCOM 2025, the world’s largest gaming event, in both the Business and Indie Area

We are on the Meta Horizon Store!

...and we are on Instagram!

Developing in Unreal Engine for Meta Quest.