The Virtual Zen Garden is an ever evolving project utilizing the state of the art of web VR capabilities to create a tranquil and educational node, for the online traveler to visit..

It was originally developed in the VR 1.0 days as a interactive 2D web based interactive experience

It was 3D modeled and rendered in 3D Studio, then processed in Photoshop as static 2D images and scripted together with HTML and embedded with a looping mono soundtrack.

It was released on the Microsoft MSN network.

It quickly transitioned into a full  web based 3D VR  multimedia experience, developed with low Poly  3d assets and textures using VRML 2.0.

Recently, It has been re-authored to Meta’s Hozions VR based worlds and is currently being ported to web VR.

The main tenant of the idea of the VR Zen Garden as a evolving testbed, is to continually push the boundaries of real time , over-the-wire, web based delivery systems for VR.  

Always stretching the limit of the current  technologies and to ultimately create the most photo realistic environment possible within the current technical limitations.

It’s a great little project to keep the skillz sharp with!