We turn fleeting emotions into digital experiences.
Maku XR is an immersive media studio that makes heart-driven art-games.
Art-games combine the humanity and aesthetics of art with the interactive mechanics of games. Sometimes these take the form of VR experiences, sometimes they’re mobile apps, sometimes they’re websites.
The form doesn’t matter as much to us as the function: we want to capture emotions, inspire creativity, and be the warm beating heart behind the cold cutting edge of technology.
Skybinder is a minimalist and creative VR puzzle game. Enjoy thinking spatially, playfully, and meditatively as you bind dots into shapes.
Art can be hard to understand. But what if you could step inside a painting and lay on the artist’s bed, staring at the images she sees as she drifts off to sleep? Would your view of the painting change? Would your view of yourself stay the same?
A music-based meditation app that helps you find the sound of your feelings and process them more effectively.
Everyone messes up sometimes. The important thing is to apologize.
Saying sorry is hard. We made this to help us remember how.
This is just for you. None of your words are sent anywhere.
To experience it, go to iwanttosaysorry.com
Simple Theremin is a virtual Theremin that can be played with your hands or controllers. Select between four different waveforms, add reverb, and use live mode for live performances.
Build Earth in a day. Become life itself and live inside nature’s web from a dozen perspectives. Then at the 11th hour, try to figure out if there is any way to help the rogue species that threatens to bring it all crashing down: humans.
Wyatt Roy
Wyatt is a virtual reality artist who designs new ways to create and share immersive stories. His VR narratives focus on capturing and communicating nuanced human characters, the spaces in which we live, and the emotions embedded in our memories. In 2013 he co-founded the creative agency Maku, which used film-making and photography to pave the storytelling path for Maku XR. He holds a BA in Psychology from Stanford.
Luis Zanforlin
Luis is a virtual reality engineer and contemporary orchestral music composer. He currently works as a research associate and VR developer at MIT where he creates new media experiences and contributes to teaching virtual reality and immersive media. In 2019 he developed Qubit Arcade, a quantum computing VR interface for MIT which led him to co-found Maku XR. He holds diplomas in Film Production and Design from Vancouver Film School and a BA in Film Scoring from Berklee College of Music.
