New for Meta Quest 2, 3 and 3S

Origami Garden

Fold real paper, one step at a time.

A paper twin of your sheet lies on your real table and folds each step first, over and over, with the lines and arrows of a printed diagram drawn right onto it. You fold along with your own sheet, at your own pace, your hands free for the paper.

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  • Mixed reality
  • 25 traditional models
  • Hands or controllers
  • Quest 2 · 3 · 3S
The paper garden on a dark tray: rows of folded models in sky-blue paper, each standing behind a tent card with its name, minutes and steps, from the dog face and the cup in front to the crane, the lily and the frog at the back. The same garden in the Seigaiha print, white waves on indigo. The same garden in sage-green paper.

Pick your paper, and the whole garden takes its look:

A teacher that folds first

The diagram comes off the page

Paper diagrams ask you to read a dashed line here, an arrow there, and to guess what happens between two drawings. Origami Garden folds every step for you in 3D, right beside your own sheet, so you see how the paper moves and not just where it ends up.

It folds first, again and again

The twin of your sheet shows the step, holds the result long enough to copy, and starts over. When your paper looks the same, you go on.

Real diagram marks, in 3D

A dashed line for a valley fold, dash-dot for a mountain fold, an arrow along the corner's path and a ring where it lands. The flap about to move glows.

Moves your hands can copy

Origami Garden's own folding engine works out every step layer by layer. Flaps tuck into real pockets, reverse folds open along the spine and turn through, and boxes rise from the flat, the way paper moves in your hands.

Your hands stay on the paper

Tap the Next tile on the tray: the real table is the button. You can also rest the back of a hand on it, or look at it for a moment. Controllers work too, from across the table.

A twin of your paper

Pick the paper you are holding, from nine colours and five Japanese prints, and the twin and the whole garden take on its look.

A garden that grows

Every model stands in a little paper garden on your table, with a tent card that says how long it takes. A red seal marks each one you have folded.

Straight from the app

From square to fortune teller

All nine steps of the fortune teller, recorded in the app and played at about twice the speed. In the headset, each step repeats until you touch Next.

  • 9 steps
  • 3 minutes
  • a 15 cm square
  • white side up

How it works

Pick, lay out, fold, done

Everything happens on the tray in front of you. Each step waits for you, and you can go back or watch it again whenever you like.

  1. A close look across the garden in sage-green paper: the cup and the tulip behind their tent cards, which say 2 min and 5 steps, and 1 min and 4 steps.

    Pick a model

    Hold a finger on a model in the garden until the corner of its card folds up. It flies to your place and unfolds into the sheet you start from.

  2. The step card reads: Lay a 15 cm square of paper on the outline, white side up. Below it lies the twin's white square, in front of it the outline where your own sheet goes, and beside it a column of tiny models, one for each step.

    Lay out your sheet

    The card says what you need, such as a 15 cm square, white side up. The outline on the tray shows where it goes, and a column of tiny models beside it shows every step to come.

  3. Step 2 of 9 of the fortune teller, Fold all four corners in to the centre: a dashed line runs across one corner, the corner glows, and a white arrow curves from it to a ring at the centre.

    Watch, then fold

    The twin folds the step beyond your sheet, again and again. The card says it in a few words, with a tip where people often go wrong, and how long is left.

  4. The card says Well done! in handwriting: Your fortune teller is ready. Below it the finished sky-blue fortune teller stands on the tray, with paper confetti around it.

    Well done!

    Paper confetti, a soft chime, and your finished model shows itself off. Back in the garden, its card gets a red seal.

“Touch Next when you are ready to begin.”

The step card, before the first fold. It never hurries you.

The garden

25 models, from easy to hard

Traditional models from the dog face in six folds to the frog in thirty-five, each folded out step by step, with words of our own. The tent cards tell you how long each one takes.

The traditional crane in the Seigaiha print, white waves on indigo, its wings spread wide and its neck and tail raised.
Crane10 min · 22 stepsHard
A lily folded from pink paper, standing on its long narrow throat with four petals curled outward.
Lily18 min · 32 stepsHard
A square masu box in the Kikko print, saffron hexagons on deep indigo, its four walls standing.
Masu Box5 min · 10 stepsMedium
A square basket of kraft paper with a tall handle arching over its open top.
Basket7 min · 22 stepsMedium
The kabuto, a samurai helmet with two horns, folded from sky-blue paper.
Samurai Helmet3 min · 8 stepsMedium
A sky-blue fortune teller standing with its four beaks open.
Fortune Teller3 min · 9 stepsMedium
A small sturdy box folded from an index card in the Shippo print, white inside, its wide cuffs of green and gold circles holding the corners.
Basic Box3 min · 9 stepsEasy
A pink paper heart with its points rounded off.
Heart2 min · 5 stepsEasy

Easy11 models

  • Dog Face 1 min · 6 steps
  • Cup 2 min · 5 steps
  • Tulip 1 min · 4 steps
  • Classic Dart A4 or Letter
    2 min · 8 steps
  • Heart 2 min · 5 steps
  • Cat Face 1 min · 5 steps
  • Fox Face 1 min · 4 steps
  • Cicada 2 min · 6 steps
  • Newspaper Hat A4 or Letter
    2 min · 6 steps
  • Paper Banger A4 or Letter
    2 min · 6 steps
  • Basic Box an index card
    3 min · 9 steps

Medium10 models

  • Swan 3 min · 9 steps
  • Samurai Helmet 3 min · 8 steps
  • Masu Box 5 min · 10 steps
  • Masu Lid after the box, to fit over it
    5 min · 10 steps
  • Basket A4 or Letter, the strip becomes the handle
    7 min · 22 steps
  • Jumping Frog an index card
    3 min · 9 steps
  • Fortune Teller 3 min · 9 steps
  • Crow 2 min · 4 steps
  • Pigeon 3 min · 7 steps
  • Waterbomb Balloon 6 min · 11 steps

Hard4 models

  • Crane 10 min · 22 steps
  • Flapping Bird 9 min · 19 steps
  • Lily 18 min · 32 steps
  • Frog 22 min · 35 steps

All other models start from a 15 cm square. The Basket follows Robert Harbin's Teach Yourself Origami (1968).

Your paper

Fold along in the paper you have

Reach for the paper stack beside the garden and the sheets fan out. Touch the one in your hands, and every model takes on its colour or print.

  • Vermilion
  • Indigo
  • Saffron
  • Sage
  • Sakura
  • Sky
  • Plum
  • Kraft
  • White
  • Asanoha
  • Kikko
  • Sakura print
  • Seigaiha
  • Shippo

What you need

  • A 15 cm square of origami paper for most models.
  • An A4 or Letter sheet for the Classic Dart, the Newspaper Hat, the Paper Banger and the Basket.
  • An index card (3 × 5 in) for the Basic Box and the Jumping Frog.
  • A table to fold on, and your Meta Quest 2, 3 or 3S.
The paper stack fanned out over the garden in two arcs: plain squares in vermilion, indigo, saffron, sage, sakura pink, sky blue, plum, kraft and white, and five patterned prints.
The sheets fan out like a hand of cards.
Finds your tableThe tray settles on your real table, a forearm in from its edge.
Goes where you wantPinch a tab at a corner of the tray and carry it somewhere else.
Hands or controllersTap with a finger, or point a controller and pull the trigger.
Calm by designNo score, no ads, no account. Just the paper and the next fold.

Good to know

Questions?

Which headsets does it run on?

Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S. Origami Garden is mixed reality: you see your room, your table and your own paper through the headset, with the garden lying on the table. On Quest 2 the room appears in black and white, as its cameras show it.

I have never folded anything. Where do I start?

In the easy row. The tulip takes four folds and about a minute, the dog face six. Every step repeats until you are ready, and Back and Replay are always beside Next.

What paper do I need?

Most models start from a 15 cm square of origami paper. The Classic Dart, the Newspaper Hat, the Paper Banger and the Basket use an A4 or Letter sheet, and the Basic Box and the Jumping Frog an index card. Before each model, the card tells you which, and which side faces up.

Do I need a table?

A table works best. The app finds it in your headset's Space Setup and lays the tray on it. Without one, the tray floats where a table would be, and you can carry it anywhere by pinching a tab at its corner.

Hands or controllers?

Either. With your hands, tap the tiles on the tray, rest a hand on Next or look at it for a moment. With controllers, point and pull the trigger: A or X goes on, B or Y goes back, and a click of the thumbstick replays the step.

Does the app record me or my room?

No. Your hands and your room's layout are used on the headset only, and the app doesn't use the microphone. The privacy policy has the details.

Something isn't working. Who can help?

Ask in our Discord or write to support@wetzold.com. Please mention your headset model and the model you were folding.

Discord Meet other folders, show what you made and ask questions. Join us → Email support@wetzold.com, for anything that needs a personal answer. Write to us → Privacy Your hands, your room and what you fold stay on your headset. Read the policy → Snowball Party Our mixed reality snowball fight, for when the paper is put away. Also by us →

Your first fold is four steps away

The tulip takes four folds and about a minute. Grab a square of paper, put on your headset, and plant the first flower in your garden.

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