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

FLOAT is a mixed-reality game for Meta Quest 2+, developed as part of our third-semester project and beyond in collaboration with the Frankfurt-based startup MyoMod.

Worldwide, more than 30 million people live with an amputation. Myoelectric prosthetics are highly functional but extremely expensive – not only because of the technology itself, but also due to the time-consuming training process in specialized labs.  

The idea: a prosthetic hand already pre-trained with thousands of data sets, making it immediately ready to use.  

To achieve this, we collect the required hand gestures in a playful way: In FLOAT, players help the small Pookis using hand tracking, while an armband records the muscle signals of the eleven primary hand gestures. The data is anonymized, encrypted, and transmitted to MyoMod.  

FLOAT is completely free and will be available on the Meta Horizon Store. Since the armband is inexpensive and can be shipped, people around the world can donate data – sign up at myomod.org.

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 
• Nominated for the Next Reality Contest Community Award 2025 and Young Talent Award 2025 – one of the most prestigious VR prizes in Germany and Europe
• Nominated for the Best Student Game Award in Warsaw/ Poland
• Nominated for the Deutscher Multimediapreis MB21 – Deutscher Entwicklerpreis 2025

We are on the Meta Horizon Store!

...and we are on Instagram!

Developing in Unreal Engine for Meta Quest.