🏆 Winner: Venice Immersive Achievement Award (81st Venice International Film Festival)
Explore ADHD Like Never Before
Narrated by Academy Award®-winner Tilda Swinton, IMPULSE: PLAYING WITH REALITY is a ground-breaking 40-minute mixed reality (MR) experience that transforms your surroundings. Witness the chaos, creativity, and intensity of ADHD.
ADHD is widely misunderstood. Many go undiagnosed, facing serious risks—including a suicide rate five times higher for adults with ADHD. Greater awareness can be life-changing.
Step Into Four Unique Stories
🎮 Immersive MR Features
Created by Anagram, co-produced by Floréal & France Télévisions, and supported by Meta VR for Good, IMPULSE continues the acclaimed PLAYING WITH REALITY collection, following GOLIATH (2021), a Venice-winning, Emmy-nominated VR experience about psychosis.
🗞 Press Reviews
"These stories are undeniably exceptional." UploadVR
"A truly innovative use of Mixed Reality." The Hollywood Reporter
Now available in Mandarin and Spanish.
👁 Step inside the ADHD mind—play IMPULSE today
Mixed reality | |
comfort | ⦾ Comfortable |
age rating | 13+ Teen |
website | impulse-xr.io |
developer | Anagram |
publisher | Anagram, Floréal, France Télévisions |
connection | Internet not required |
app version | 1.0.6 |
languages | English ∙ Chinese ∙ Spanish |
Deep, meaningful, engaging, interesting, and incredibly creative. There are so many nice elements crammed into this well told story it makes other experiences feel lazy and short of ideas. In particular I really liked the mixed reality stuff. The fake shadows were a stroke of genius. I didn't love the visual design of the main narrative animations, but this is a top arts purchase for your quest.
Impulse is more than just a game — it’s a vital, emotionally intelligent mixed reality experience that dares to tackle the complexities of mental health and neurodivergence. By placing the player inside the mind of someone living with ADHD, Impulse creates a powerful, immersive space where distractions, emotions, and coping mechanisms are not only visualised but deeply felt.
As someone with ADHD I'm glad this experience is being represented and hope there's opportunities to showcase the sheer diversity of what ADHD can be.
This experience is a meaningful step toward destigmatising mental health struggles, and it's fantastic to see it's ability to not only win accolades on the creative industries but see it brought into health and wellbeing contests as an educational tool.
Ace work, Anagram and everyone involved!
I loved Goliath, and absolutely loved this - Anagram keep pushing out the best interactive documentaries that feel both grand and personal. Impulse is a joy.
Didn't realize this would be a full mixed reality experience... so well done!! Another wow experience for me and I'm 6 months into using my quest 3. I do wish there was an option for HD as the animated portion of the film feels low rez. Loved the feel of this film though and that I was part of the experience. One of the best mr experiences I've had. Keep them coming.... please!! 🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️✌️
As someone who has dealt with ADHD their whole life, this is far and away the best depiction of the challenges of living with ADHD that I have seen in any medium. I haven't had such a visceral, emotional reaction to something in years. To the creators of this - thank you.
Unless you are really interested in what goes on in the mind of a person/s with ADHD this interactive thingy is incredibly dull. When it starts it lulls you into thinking you actually might be playing a game, there are some game like mechanics. But you suddenly realise the games are unwinnable and that's where all interactivity stops, that's about 10% in, the rest is just different people with ADHD explaining what goes on in their heads. Thats it, that's all you get, a 20 min "this is what ADHD is like" preachy mixed reality mess. This app tries terribly to make a point but it's seriously lacking any emotional punch. So all in all if you don't like expensive propaganda then stay away from this. You can learn a whole lot more about ADHD by grabbing a free pamphlet at you doctors ( free ) or simply searching on the net ( also free ).