Inspiration
Hoame began with a simple belief: access to a meaningful moment of calm should fit into everyday life. With Meta VR Glasses, we see an opportunity to bring that vision closer than ever.
Imagine finishing a demanding meeting, settling into an airplane seat, or taking a few minutes for yourself at home. You put on your glasses, select a short session with your hands, and a Hoame instructor appears in your space. You settle back, rest your hands and follow their guidance.
That is the next evolution of Hoame.
What it does
Our proposed update brings instructor-led meditation into the user’s surroundings through a seated, hands-first mixed reality experience.
Users will select a session, position their instructor comfortably and control playback through simple hand interactions. Once the session begins, the interface will recede, letting them rest their hands and focus.
At home, Hoame could create a familiar place for a daily reset. In compact seated settings, it could offer a brief grounding practice without large gestures or physical movement. Short sessions will serve recognizable moments: preparing for the day, taking a break between commitments and winding down.
How we built it
Our foundation is the existing Hoame app, launched on Meta Quest in January 2022, alongside our established wellness content library and experience delivering immersive meditation to consumers.
For this next phase, we are building on that foundation with a dedicated mixed reality mode and a complete hands-first journey. Our development priorities are clear onboarding, comfortable instructor placement, intuitive session controls and dependable pause and resume.
Challenges we ran into
The central design challenge for this evolution is making every interaction effortless enough for someone who is already feeling overwhelmed.
We need to balance convincing instructor presence with awareness of the user’s surroundings, accommodate different spaces and keep controls accessible without interrupting the session. We are designing around minimal menus, small gestures and the ability to rest naturally once guidance begins.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Since January 2022, Hoame has generated more than 300,000 Quest installs and strong revenue, demonstrating consumer adoption and an established business.
We have also participated in Meta’s Mixed Reality program, Meta Avatars Bounty program and Horizon Worlds creator programs. We were also a flagship activation at the Meta Canada Summit. These experiences reflect our continued commitment to Meta’s ecosystem and our ambition to help shape its next chapter.
What we learned
Our experience delivering Hoame informs a core design principle: accessing a moment of calm should feel simple.
For this evolution, we are applying that principle to short sessions, natural interaction and instructor presence. We want users to have a clear reason to return and an easy path from putting on their glasses to beginning their practice. Meditation practice is habitual, and with this lighter form factor, we see strong promise for retention and usage metrics.
What's next for Hoame Meditation
Our next milestone is a focused, polished hands-first mixed reality experience for Meta VR Glasses. Support would help us accelerate that evolution while demonstrating a compelling everyday purpose for the platform.
We also see an opportunity to explore Llama-powered personalization, helping users find the right Hoame session for their available time, preferences and self-reported state. Our initial focus would pair personalized session discovery with our established instructor-led library, with a longer-term ambition to introduce carefully bounded, AI-generated guidance. This would make Hoame more responsive to each moment while preserving the human presence at the heart of the experience.
Our ambition is to make Hoame the wellness experience people instinctively turn to when they need a moment for themselves. Wherever they are, we want that moment to feel like coming Hoame.
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