The Virtual Dementia Experience (VDE) was designed in 2011 for Altzheimer's Australia as both an installation experience and a computer experience using the kinect to drive the player's motion, it was later rereleased in VR. The project was used by Altzheimer's Australia to educate carers for people with dementia and to teach empathy for the way those with Altzheimers view the world in a way that was never before possible.

The Virtual Dementia Experience was very successful, with multiple adaptations (an installation, VR port and browser port) and featured in a number of news presses and on TV when it was released.

I contributed to several world-based effects used to mimic the confusion that a person with Altzheimer would experience such as moving walls and floors and holes in the floor. I was also one of the two programmers responsible for the browser port (known as ADVDE).

The browser port was made using the Universe Engine and was completely rewritten from the ground up. The Universe Engine was an in-house browser game engine made by Opaque which I considerably contributed to and ran using the Starlight renderer that I made.

Some screenshots for the browser version of the game are shown in the gallery below, they are very similar to the original UE4 version's screenshots.