Presence VR

PRESENCE PARK · SAUSALITO, CALIFORNIA

Portal to Presence

Where Rendering Reality is designed and built, and where people from every discipline come together to inquire into the nature of reality.

The finished ballroom during a gathering: rows of guests face a speaker before the window wall.
Sausalito, California

A dedicated space for exploration

Rendering Reality turns your own room into a laboratory for perception. Presence Park is where the work behind it happens.

Questions this old have always needed a place where people can explore together and express diverse ideas and viewpoints. This building was designed around one purpose, the ongoing study of truth and the many methods humans use to reveal hidden dimensions of reality itself.

What happens here

At the studio wall, a hand adds a sticky note to a hand-drawn storyboard for a VR scene.A collaborator points to an immersive scene on a laptop screen at the Presence Park worktable.

Research and development

Every chapter of Rendering Reality is conceived, designed, and prototyped here, by a team spanning immersive art, AI, medicine, and contemplative practice.

A group seated in a circle on floor chairs and cushions in a sunlit room at Presence Park, overlooking San Francisco Bay.

Gatherings

Presence Salons: intimate, cross-disciplinary conversations, by invitation. Scientists, artists, clinicians, and contemplatives, comparing notes on the nature of the perceiver and the world they perceive.

Reality Rendered

From concept, to construction, to completion. Here's how Presence Park took shape.

  1. A rendering of the house above two octagonal garden pavilions, lit at dusk.

    CONCEPT

    A vision of how the space might feel, long before anyone knew how to build it.

  2. Two of the team at a worktable on the new deck, with timber framing behind them and Angel Island across the bay.

    CONSTRUCTION

    Month by month, plans became walls, light, and room to gather.

  3. People seated on chairs and cushions around a speaker in a sunlit room, with San Francisco Bay visible through tall windows.

    COMPLETION

    Rendered into form

Carved walnut and resin sliding doors, drawn closer, framing the ballroom and the bay beyond.

THE DOORS OPEN

Enter a world of possibility and freedom. Let the journey begin!

The inquiry continues, wherever you are.

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