FLOAT - A MIXED REALITY EXPERIENCE

The fate of the Pookis lies in your hands!

The Pookis once lived in harmony until a mysterious lightning bolt struck the Life Tree and shattered its crystal, the source of all balance. The island broke apart, scattering the Pookis across the skies and leaving their world in ruins. Separated and lost, they now wait for someone to bring them back together. Only you can save them and restore balance to their realm.

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. But FLOAT can also be played without a armband!

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