Containment Unit
Summon digital creatures into your space
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Summon digital creatures into your space
4 followers
Containment Unit is a spatial computing art experience for the Vision Pro. The device hovers in your space, projecting a sci-fi UI that lets you configure procedural creatures, digital sculptures that pulse, drift, and respond to you in audiovisual harmony.
Hi! I'm K.C., a technical artist and longtime interactive developer.
Containment Unit is a labor of love.. I set out to create an open ended R+D AR exploration playing with 3D animation, sci-fi UI, procedural creatures and sound design for the Vision Pro. I wanted to build something that felt polished, alive and expressive, that could only exist in this new medium. I've played with artificial life coding for over 20 years, but being able to reach out and touch my creations is totally novel and inspiring...
Containment unit features a configurable eel like lifeform that is heavily inspired by deep sea organisms. The product is an ongoing experiment, the initial application is tight in scope but highly polished, with a solid foundation I can add new designs to over time.
The app was built with Unity Polyspatial in the Apple Vision Pro using Houdini, Blender, and Ableton Live with heavy use of shaders. It’s a love letter to real-time creativity.
If you have questions about how it was built, or what it was like developing in the headset for the headset, ask me anything below!