Meta Connect2025
Meta Quest Home
Home is the first thing you see when you put on a Quest headset, and the place you come back to between everything else.
Until 2025 it was a set of static environments you moved through by teleporting between fixed points. A new owner's first impression of VR was a room that undersold what the headset could actually do. We launched a new Immersive Home: a single space you move through freely, with four environments that relight the room around you, rebuilt on Meta's new Horizon Engine.
The objective
No seams.
Not in the world, not in the team that built it.
An immersive environment doesn't ship in layers. Light, geometry, materials, motion, and sound all arrive at once, and people feel the disagreement between them before they can name it. That made collaboration a product requirement, not a process preference. I worked across team and org lines so environment art, audio, motion, and interaction design were solving the same problem at the same time instead of handing off to each other.
Partners: Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, UX Research, Data Engineering, Policy & Legal
Direct Team: Product & Content Designers
Our motto
A seam between disciplines becomes a seam the user can feel immediately.
Shipped on time, featured in the Connect 2025 keynote as a flagship launch.
Unified locomotion, physics, and look and feel across Meta's core experiences.
Travel from Home into other destinations exceeded target, and time in the environment rose after launch.
Passed executive greenlight review on visual quality.
Launch a new Home environment for Quest, in time for Connect 2025.
Make moving between worlds feel continuous, not like loading a level.
Make new places and new people easy to find.
Raise visual immersion without cost to load time or render quality.
The outcomes
Ani closes critical gaps, aligns teams through creative operational excellence, and leads with the kind of clarity and resilience that elevates everyone around her.
— Jason Rubin, VP of Design • Meta