An AI digital sprite in mixed reality
Your first AI spatial pet.
Your first AI spatial pet
Backed by Brown B-Lab startup accelerator funding.
Demo downloads within two weeks.
Showcased at four industry exhibitions.
Likes and saves across Instagram and RED.
Potential customer leads from exhibitions.
Stress and loneliness are everywhere, yet many young people still lack a form of companionship they can confide in continuously — without it feeling like a burden.
80% of young people have felt stress and loneliness at some point in their lives.
Many find it hard to truly open up to others… some even feel awkward or uncomfortable expressing their emotions.
Unhealthy ways of coping
People often lean on external stimulation to manage emotions — drinking, eating, partying.
But these bring only short-term relief, and can even make things worse.
Through ongoing interaction, the AI pet gradually learns the user’s emotions and habits, and adapts how it interacts to their needs — becoming a truly personal digital companion.
Unlike characters confined to a phone screen, a pet in MR lives in your real space — and interacts naturally through spatial position, gaze, motion and changes in the environment.
MR gives an AI pet a true sense of presence. No longer a character on a screen, it perceives the environment, understands you, and stays by your side as a digital companion.
Interaction, play and AI give people a more natural way to talk to and spend time with their virtual pet. It stops being a cold AI or a virtual character, and gradually becomes a close digital companion.
I owned the full experience from concept to launch — product concept, character design, core gameplay, 3D assets and MR UI/UX — and contributed to interaction prototyping and spatial-experience validation.
Through 10+ pitches and 30+ target-user tests, we kept validating the product direction, found experience issues, and iteratively refined the concept into a buildable MR product.
ProblemComplex tasks weakened MR immersion and made companionship feel unnatural.
ApproachShift to lighter games and spatial interaction, so companionship itself is the core experience.
ProblemEarly features were barely different from a phone app — no reason to use MR.
ApproachCut text and complex UI; emphasize interactions only spatial devices can offer.
ProblemSimply adding AI chat still felt like a 3D chatbot with no sense of life.
ApproachLet AI drive the pet’s behavior and reactions — a personal companion that keeps evolving.
Built around mental-wellness tasks in MR.
Focused on immersive interaction and play with a digital pet in MR.
An immersive emotional journal built on AI chat with a digital pet.
Play, chat and bond with an AI pet through mini-games.
AI conversation as the pet’s core experience.
AI drives the pet’s reactions, behavior and continuous adaptation.
“The pet appears right in my real space. Everything is smooth and there’s nothing extra to learn, so it really feels like it has moved into my everyday environment.”
“The game design means interaction isn’t just finishing tasks — there’s a sense of ongoing discovery and participation. It’s far more immersive than a typical functional app.”
“The controls are intuitive; you basically know what to do without thinking, and every action gets clear feedback. It’s relaxed and genuinely fun.”
Fully harness generative AI to create personalized, immersive content based on the user’s mood.
Expand interactions and gameplay to raise entertainment value and long-term engagement.
Explore more use cases and business directions to widen the product’s reach.
Keep testing with users to further validate real needs and expectations for an AI spatial pet.
