The River Braids

Stand in golden tussock as a braided river threads across the valley floor beneath snow-capped peaks.

A relaxing mountain experience in New Zealand, filmed from a still, meditative vantage point, running 2 min in immersive VR180.

New Zealand is home to Aoraki / Mount Cook and Southern Alps. Every experience here is filmed on location in resolutions up to 16K.

Watch natively on Apple Vision Pro, or in the browser on Meta Quest, Pico, and Samsung Galaxy XR.

What to expect

The camera stays in one place for the full 2 min, so nothing pans or lurches and you set the pace by turning your head. If fast motion in a headset does not agree with you, this is one of the gentler ways in.

It is filmed in stereoscopic VR180, which means depth is real: near things sit close, far things stay far, and the mountain reads at proper scale instead of flattening onto a screen. Look up, look to the edges of the frame, and take your time. There is nothing to steer and nothing to learn.

We tag this one relaxing, and it sits in New Zealand alongside the rest of what we have filmed there. Create an account to watch this one in full.