The Halloween Chronicles: An Interactive VR and AI Experience for Meta Quest

Veil of the Haunted Realm, by exar

First comes Pumpkin Smash, a witch’s hat worn,
Magic ignites, and powers are reborn.
Swing with glee, the jack-o’-lantern’s fall,
A simple start to grip the haunted call.

Next, Hacking the Chest demands your skill,
Left hand’s device, a ciphered lock to kill.
Scytale, transposition, null ciphers unwind,
An avatar guides the secrets you’ll find.

The Candle waits to spark the next surprise,
With item in hand, watch darkness paralyze.
Light it true, unveil the spectral tale,
But deeper mysteries still prevail.

Is there a mallet for that pumpkin punch?
Seek the ghostly tool for spirit’s crunch.
Navigate realms in HDR’s deep embrace,
With XR hands that mimic your own grace.

Teleport, grab, and listen to the clock,
Silent ticks echo beneath the shock.
Secrets lie hidden in diaries’ keep,
A haunted journey yet to leap.

Though still in birth, this eerie domain,
Your love will summon its full refrain.
Free the first tasks, but avatars stay hid—
Invite the future, let your voice be bid.

Will you venture into the haunted fold,
And bring the full tale from shadows untold?

Description:

Experience Halloween in an immersive VR experience, in an eerie cemetery scenery, with environment aware AI-Assisted avatars, having conversations in real-time and helping you in solving 3 extraordinary challenges!
(Speech-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS) are supported).

The "Pumpkin Smash" is the first and an easy task to get you familiar with the gameplay, in which a witch hat must be worn to unlock magical powers!

The "Hacking of the Chest" is the next real challenge, as it requires to use the gear on your left hand to hack the chest, unlocking it to find it some goodies! The AI avatar anchored on the gear, helps decrypting a randomly generated password using 3 ciphers, scytale, transposition and null cipher. A specific item is a must to complete the subsequent challenge.

The "Candle" challenge, requires to use the item picked up earlier and light the candle to reveal a surprise!

But... the real surprise has not yet been said!
Is there a pumpkin punch smash*? There is one if you can find the mallet!

There are plenty of features included, an audiovisual HDR enriched scenery getting you to a Halloween mood, with navigation instructions, settings panel for snap turning/continuous movement, captions and audio adjustments, animated XR hands that sense the degree of your finger touch/press, teleporting to specific spots, with interactive grabbable objects which can be snapped on your hand and waist body slots,  a secret diary, hacking gear, pumpkin smash and many more.

Have you seen the clock, go near it and be quite, you may listen it ticking...

Note that the game is still in development. If you like it, I will surely consider releasing its full content.

Challenge 1 and Bonus* scenes are free to experience but no AI avatars interactions. These will be included in future app release depending on your requests.

IMPORTANT:

• It is essential to have sufficient room space and "Stationary boundary" is a must. Please take this into consideration before submitting any comments/suggestions.
• The conversational AI responses are based on a specific knowledge base, situated outside EU and are handled by the AI/ML service provider, therefore they are dynamically produced and not controlled by the application' s program code. 
• Also, it has been observed that sometimes and for the first run, it is required to exit the game and re-enter.

Age Rating: Content is generally suitable for ages 13 and up. Disclaimer notice must be accepted in-game.

Dedicated to my 2 sons, aged 17 and 15, the younger one loves Halloween.

Built with Unity, employing XR Interaction Toolkit, AI Navmesh and other SDKs and programming techniques and tested on Meta Quest 3/3S.

Developer's website: https://petroslouca.wordpress.com
App webpage: Virtual Reality Application "The Halloween Chronicles: An Interactive VR and AI Experience" for Meta Quest

© 2025 Petros Louca - exar

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