I have been working on the VR app, and have built a simple environment with hands (rather than controllers)
All the colours across this world, and the AR app are the same to make it feel more like a continuous journey.
As the viewer load the VR game, they find themselves on a patch of grass surrounded by aesthetically pleasing water. On looking up they see particle effects moving according to a flocking behaviour model, but not coming too close as a dome blocks their path. I had initially used a sphere to block their path, but realised that it needed to be a dome to allow physics to work while inside.
I am as of yet unsure as to whether I will use hand poses to trigger anything, but at the moment aim to create a function where the player must kneel with their head and palms on the ground. As they stay in this position, increasingly chaotic and layered sounds play around them. If they manage to stay still in that devoted position for x minutes (whatever specified length of time), they unlock the arrival of the leader. On unlocking this, there would be a northern lights type of effect in the sky above, withing which would be an AI voice giving wisdom and congratulating the player.
To show where to place their palms and forehead, I need to think of something to place on the grass that fits in the with the environment, but also shows the player what they need to do (ideally without text)
If they dont stay in the devoted pose for long enough, something else would happen (need to think and decide). Either they can start their devotion pose again, or maybe the ground falls out from below them and theyre in a darker cave like space where they need to complete a different challenge to progress. Maybe a task they need to do, on completion of which they are brought back to the devotion island.
Perhaps instead the app starts on the cave challenge, and then goes to the island if they pass. If they fail on the island after that, they go all the way back to the cave scene. But all this depends on what the cave challenge can be, and if its relevant.
