EcoReality

A Forest’s Silent Cry
When Nature Speaks, We Listen
A Journey Through a Dying Forest

Inspiration

EcoReality was inspired by the urgent need to make climate change and deforestation felt, not just understood. The experience places users inside an immersive 3D world where a butterfly guides a young girl and the viewer through a once-thriving forest now threatened by human actions. By combining storytelling with interactive visuals built EcoReality transforms environmental education into an emotional journey. The goal is simple: help people see the impact, feel the loss, and be motivated to take meaningful action.

What it does

EcoReality is an immersive 3D storytelling experience that brings users face-to-face with the impact of deforestation.A butterfly guides a young girl—and the viewer—through a once-thriving forest now threatened by human activity. Using Unity, Blender models, Mixamo animations, and Meta’s Immersive Web SDK (IWSDK), the experience blends environmental education with emotional narrative to drive awareness and action.

How we built it

Environment & Assets: Forest scenes, trees, and creatures modeled in Blender Character animations created with Mixamo and refined with Unity’s keyframe animation system Unity Scene: Built as a WebGL experience Includes lighting, ambience, environmental effects, and butterfly-led camera path Immersive Web SDK Integration Unity WebGL build hosted on a server and rendered as an interactive experience inside IWSDK

Challenges we ran into

Optimizing Unity WebGL build size for smooth loading inside IWSDK Ensuring lighting, fog, and particle effects render consistently across browsers Managing cross-origin hosting and secure loading of the Unity scene

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Seamlessly blending storytelling + WebXR + immersive 3D graphics Creating an emotion-driven environmental narrative that children and adults enjoy Building an experience that’s deployable, scalable, and browser-accessible—no app required

What we learned

How to host and embed Unity WebGL scenes inside IWSDK’s immersive canvas Best practices for 3D optimisation (textures, meshes, LOD, lightmaps) How immersive tech can strengthen climate education through emotional connection

What's next for EcoReality

Adding branching storylines where the girl makes choices that change the forest’s future Expanding with gamified missions: plant trees, rescue animals, clean the forest