Lie back and run it
It stays fully offline, is HDR-aware, and responds gently to a built-in drone or to whatever music you are playing.
Download Coming soon
ADdes is in early alpha, and there is no public release yet. When there is something to download, this is where it will be.
Less than you might think
A Windows PC
Draws on a DirectX 12 graphics card. Developed and measured on one PC so far: AMD and Intel graphics cards have not been tested yet.
A screen you like
Full screen, windowed, a TV, or several screens at once. For HDR, turn on Use HDR in Windows display settings and ADdes detects it.
A headset, if you want one
Optional. A Quest through Link (a cable or Air Link) puts the dream all the way around you. See VR.
Double-click, or from a terminal
Double-click ADDES.exe. Or give it a word:
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
ADDES.exe | Full screen. |
ADDES.exe --windowed | In a window. |
ADDES.exe --mute | No drone. |
ADDES.exe --feel "Mycelium" | Start in one feel. |
ADDES.exe --vr | VR, through a Quest on Link. Or press V at any time. |
The first time you run it, a small card names the keys that matter (Esc for the menu, N, Space, F11, and how to leave). It shows once, and any key or click sends it away.
As your Windows screensaver
ADdes.scr is ADdes as a screensaver: a copy of ADDES.exe kept beside it, with the two DXC DLLs. Right-click it and choose Install to make it your screensaver, then set the wait time in Windows’ Screen Saver Settings.
- It covers every monitor, silently, with no overlay.
- Any key, click or mouse move ends it at once, and it never changes your settings.
- Settings… in that dialog opens ADdes at its menu.
Everything is under your hand
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| Esc / Tab | menu (feels, look, motion, sound, display, quality) |
| F11 / F | fullscreen |
| Space | pause time (the dream holds still and keeps sharpening) |
| N | drift to the next dream |
| L | more like this (linger, and breed future dreams from it) |
| C | Claude’s dream: a sheep Claude made to show what being Claude is like |
| S | speed: ½× → 1× → 1½× → 2× → 3× |
| , / . | slower / faster |
| 1 … 0 | just this feel: Electric Sheep ’99, Deep Trance, Mycelium, Aurora, Bioluminescent Sea, Ember Temple, Silk Threads, Starlight Orbits, Kaleidoscope, Cathedral of Light |
| Shift + 1 … 0 | add or remove a feel from your mix |
| R | Random: every feel on (press again for just the one on screen) |
| V | VR: start / leave (Quest via Link) |
| O | VR: turn the dream to face where you’re looking |
| G | VR: coalesce: gather the dream in front of you / let it surround you |
| J | a voyage now: shapes that open up ahead and fly past you |
| K | a neon hallway now: morphing frames you pass through, tendrils breathing on their edges |
| W | a wormhole now: the dream on screen, painted inside a tube that flows gently toward you |
| H | hide / show the dream’s name |
| M | mute the drone |
| + / - | drone volume |
| [ / ] | exposure |
Several screens: in the menu, Display then Full screen on chooses this screen, a chosen screen, or all screens (one dream across them). The choice appears once Windows reports more than one screen.
Small things worth a line
Fast start
With Microsoft’s DXC shader compiler (dxcompiler.dll and dxil.dll) next to the program, ADdes shows its first frame in about 2 s. Without them it falls back to the older compiler and takes about 14 s.
Your settings
Your settings and custom feels are saved to %LOCALAPPDATA%\ADDES\settings.json. Each session writes a log to %LOCALAPPDATA%\ADDES\addes.log.
A mix of feels
In the menu, tick the feels that fit your mood (or press R for all of them). Each new dream is born in one of the ticked feels, chosen at random, and brings that feel’s look and motion with it. The look glides in at the pace of the dissolve, never in a snap.