Experience – Growing Roots

Growing Roots

Digital nature should never be a replacement for real life nature,

but it could act as a complementary strategy for those who are not able to go outside themselves.

Experience the prototype now

Environment by human

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Experience it yourself by installing the desktop app

The digital experience that was made within the game engine Unity was exported as a desktop pc build (.exe). This application can be installed to a windows 10 desktopcomputer or laptop. To run this application there are some requirements for hardware that are needed to get the right experience.

Minimum system requirements

CPU: Intel Core i5 3470 @ 3.2GHz (4 CPUs) /
AMD X8 FX-8350 @ 4GHz (8 CPUs)
CPU SPEED: Info
RAM: 8 GB
OS: Windows 10 64 Bit, Windows 8.1 64 Bit, Windows 8 64 Bit
VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB / AMD HD 7870 2GB
PIXEL SHADER: 5.0
VERTEX SHADER: 5.0
SOUND CARD: 100% DirectX 10 compatible
FREE DISK SPACE: 750 MB
DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 2 GB

Download the application via the button below, after downloading the .rar file you can unpack the compressed rar file to your computer. After unpacking the files execute the app (Growing Roots (Default).exe) by doubble clicking. After a few moments (depends on the performance of the computer) a prompt panel will pop up. select the resolution that fits your screen and click oke. Now the application will be started, the image below shows the mainmenu after starting the application.

Last study

'Digital nature should never be a replacement for real life nature, but it could act as a complementary strategy for those who are not able to go outside themselves.'

Josca van Houwelingen-Snippe

PhD candidate