HARU

A cross-platform mixed reality and mobile pet game that creates a personal “excuse” for users to return to mixed reality every day.

Bini Park

XR Product Designer / Prototyper
Bini Park is a New York–based XR designer, creative technologist, and game developer passionate about transforming everyday moments into emotionally resonant mixed reality experiences. Currently pursuing a BFA in Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design (Class of 2025), Bini co-founded PLAI, an indie XR game studio focused on reimagining music education and memory through interactive spatial play.

Her recent projects include Haru, a mobile-to-VR memory pet game exploring emotional connection through picture-sharing and embodied interaction, and Piano Café, a chord-based cooking game that turns a real piano into a magical kitchen. Bini’s work has been showcased at HarvardXR and AWE 2025, highlighting their commitment to blending narrative, play, and immersive technology.
Thesis Faculty
Colleen MacklinBrad MacDonald

Introduce a Mixed Reality Pet That Lives in Your World!!

Check out my Medium post to learn more!

Have you ever taken off a VR headset and felt like the magic just… vanished? Like you were part of something beautiful for a moment, and then suddenly it was gone, leaving behind a weird emptiness?

Full Walkthrough Trailer

He came from a simple question: what if mixed reality wasn’t just a one-time spectacle, but something woven into our daily habits?

I wanted to give people a reason to come back to their headsets, not because they had to, but because something real was waiting for them. Something emotional, something consistent. Something that didn’t disappear the moment the headset came off.

That “something” became Haru.

Haru is a tiny alien creature crash-lands on Earth.

In the chaos of impact, he loses all of his memories and ask for our help to find his memory ball back though our mobile phone alert!!

You get soft message from Haru: “I can’t sleep… I remember something cozy

You look around and take a picture of Haru’s request and scan it through the app, and it detects a memory ball fragment hidden in the image.

Later that day, you slip on your headset and meet Haru.

You give him the memory you found, and just like that, he begins to remember. A “memory object” appears, a glowing little item based on your photo. 

you’re not just helping Haru recover what he lost. You’re helping him build a home. One that’s shaped by your own memories, your own story.