Role: UX Designer / Sound Designer
Timeline: 2 weeks

“The World Beyond” is a magical mixed reality (MR) experience from Meta, which looks and sounds great on a Quest Pro or Quest 3. The MR journey lets us explore our rooms like never before with playful interactive controls, sound, and music that help to drive the storyline which includes blasting away the walls of any room to reveal… the world beyond!

As a design challenge, I chose to use all original field and studio recordings including creating custom patches on an ARP 2600 M synthesizer as opposed to editing sounds from a sound library, and using off the shelf instrument patches. All of the sound is middleware-friendly and ready for platforms like Unity, Unreal, Apple’s visionOS, and Spark.

This combination of real and generated sounds, edited and mixed in Pro Tools, results in a cohesive and fresh take on sound that encourages interactivity and exploration for this transformative spatial experience.

If you're curious about the original sound design and music, experience "The World Beyond" here on a Quest device.