Breath Garden: Follow a Visible Breathing Guide in VR and Grow a Garden

Breath Garden is a wellness session you do inside a VR headset. You choose a pace, follow an expanding guide, and a garden in front of you responds as that rhythm continues.

This post explains what Breath Garden is, how a session works and who it suits. It is coming soon on aeternusvita.io. You can get notified from the product page when it is ready.

What Breath Garden is

Breath Garden is a wellness session for a VR headset. The subtitle is "A garden that follows breath" and the one-line pitch states it plainly: "Follow a visible breathing guide in VR and grow a garden as you go."

The long description from the Play copy gives the shape in a few lines: "Breath Garden is a wellness session for a VR headset. You can start on the first sitting. Choose a pace. An expanding guide shows the rhythm, and you follow it. The garden in front of you responds as that rhythm continues."

That is the whole premise. The guide makes the rhythm visible. You follow it. The garden shows you that you are keeping with it.

The copy then lists what is included:

• Four breathing patterns and a pace you choose
• Three gardens and twenty plants
• An expanding guide you follow
• The garden grows, and you collect a seed
• Follow with your hands, or an optional microphone
• A privacy toggle for that microphone

Those six lines are the scope as described in the brief and the Play listings. There is no course to clear, no score to chase and no separate mode that changes the rules. You choose a pace, follow the guide, and the garden grows.

Breath Garden is made by aeternusvita.io. The brief describes it for meditation beginners. The hook is to grow a reactive garden by following visible breathing rhythms, and the three pillars are breath made visible, no experience required and collectible growth.

How a session works

A session follows a short loop. The design excerpt names it as: choose pace → follow expanding guide → garden responds → collect seed. The Play copy explains each part in plain terms.

You start on the first sitting. There is no prior step to complete and no setup you need to learn before you begin. You put on the headset, you are in the garden, and you choose a pace.

An expanding guide shows the rhythm. The listing says: "An expanding guide shows the rhythm, and you follow it. The garden in front of you responds as that rhythm continues." You watch the guide expand and you follow that movement with your breath. The garden responds while you keep with it.

Four breathing patterns are included, and the pace is one you choose. The copy repeats this in both the description and the feature list: "Four breathing patterns are included" and "Four breathing patterns and a pace you choose". You pick the pattern and set the pace that suits you for that sitting.

The plants grow through the session. The Play copy says: "The plants grow through the session, and you collect a seed. Particles and soft audio mark the growth." There are three gardens which together hold twenty plants. As you follow the guide, the plants grow and particles and soft audio mark that growth. At the end of the session you collect a seed.

Settings are saved on the device, so the pace you set remains for next time. Comfort presets are included. On a headset linked to a computer, a spectator view shows the garden on the desktop.

The gardens and the seed

Three gardens hold twenty plants. That number is stated in every locale of the Play copy and in the brief's MVP scope. The plants grow through the session, and you collect a seed.

The garden is what you watch while you follow the guide. It is in front of you and it responds as the rhythm continues. You stay with the garden for the session and the garden changes as you keep the rhythm.

Particles and soft audio mark the growth. The seed you collect at the end is the keepsake from that session.

The next time you open Breath Garden you choose a pace again and follow the guide again. The same three gardens are there, and you can collect a seed again.

Hands, microphone and the privacy toggle

You can follow the guide in two ways. The Play copy says: "You can follow the guide with your hands."

The second way is an optional microphone. The copy says: "An optional microphone can stand in for the rhythm, and a privacy toggle switches that microphone off." The brief calls this an optional microphone proxy and a hand-guided fallback, and lists a privacy toggle and local settings and save data among the required systems.

The headset's microphone is not required. The acceptance criteria state that the app is fully usable without a microphone. If you do choose to use the microphone, the privacy toggle switches it off when you want it off.

The brief also notes that the app does not measure your breathing and it is not a respiratory treatment. No audio is retained and the project never logs microphone, health or biometric data by default. Settings are saved on the device.

Pacing is always user-adjustable. You choose the pace and you can change it.

Comfort, settings and spectator view

Settings are saved on the device. That includes the pace you choose and other preferences you set.

Comfort presets are included. The Play copy says so directly: "Comfort presets are included." The brief lists comfort presets among the required systems.

On a headset linked to a computer, a spectator view shows the garden on the desktop. The Play copy says: "On a headset linked to a computer, a spectator view shows the garden on the desktop." That view is for someone else in the room to see the garden while you are in the headset.

The current build is web-first. The brief lists the target as web with a kit-three template, a hosted web build and an HTML5 zip package ready for itch.io, with a smoke test marked as pass. Nothing has been submitted to any store.

Who it suits

Breath Garden is described for meditation beginners. The brief names the audience as meditation beginners and the long description says you can start on the first sitting.

It suits you if you want a visible guide rather than a voice alone. The expanding guide shows the rhythm and you follow it. If you find it easier to follow something you can see, this format gives you a shape to track.

It suits you if you want a short session with a clear start and end. You choose a pace, follow the guide, watch the garden grow, and collect a seed.

It suits you if you want to set your own pace. The copy calls it "a pace you choose". There is no required speed set by the app.

It suits you if you want to keep microphone use optional. You can follow with your hands and use the whole session without the microphone. If you prefer the optional microphone, the privacy toggle switches it off when you want it off.

Breath Garden does not measure your breathing and it is not a respiratory treatment. That is stated in every locale of the Play copy and in the out-of-scope list in the brief. The information here is educational and describes how the session works, not medical advice.

Coming soon

Breath Garden is coming soon on aeternusvita.io. The product page is where you can get notified when it is ready. Visit Breath Garden and use the notify option there.

There is no price, release date, rating or review to quote because nothing has been submitted or released. The brief lists release date as not decided, ratings and reviews as none, and price as not final.

If you want to understand the scope before it arrives, the listing is a reliable guide. Four breathing patterns and a pace you choose. Three gardens and twenty plants. An expanding guide you follow. The garden grows, and you collect a seed. Follow with your hands, or an optional microphone with a privacy toggle. Made by aeternusvita.io, coming soon.