Pioneers of immersive sensory experience
Reality Center opened in Santa Monica at the beginning of 2022, in a brick building that once held the city's municipal offices. What happens inside it started a long way from here.
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Reality Center grew from two paths into the same mission: Tarun Raj's drive to make transformative wellness more accessible, and Jonathan Chia's lived experience as a veteran searching for a way to move beyond survival mode.
Tarun came to this from motion graphics and experiential design. Around 2012 he found himself running a 10,000 square foot arts and education space in South Central Los Angeles, and it was there he first sat in front of the technology: someone chanting into a microphone, the words turning into vibration you could see on a screen, hear through speakers, and — to his surprise — feel through the chair. He has described that moment as the point the work stopped being a curiosity. Technology could do more than entertain.
Jonathan came to it from fifteen months of combat in Iraq, and from what happened after. He served through Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, and lost friends — in theatre, and then at home. He has spent more than a decade since building alternative therapies for people carrying post-traumatic stress, and sits on the executive boards of three veteran-focused nonprofits.
The technology became a meaningful part of Jonathan's own change. Reality Center grew from a belief that more people should have access to that same possibility.
Pioneer in biofeedback, consciousness research and sensory technologies for more than 40 years.
Co-founder of Reality Center and Reality MGMT Technologies, helping pioneer technodelics: synchronized light, sound and vibration that open an altered state without drugs.
Software and hardware innovator developing ground-breaking multi-sensory technology and immersive experiences.
Director and producer whose film credits include My Inspired World and Fox and the Rabbit. He leads Reality Center’s films and media.
Design strategist, director and developer. Austin builds worlds with AI, 3D, VR and AR across fashion, architecture and technology, bridging the digital and the physical with interactive design and art.
Psychiatrist and neuroscientist. Former Director of the LA County Department of Mental Health, the largest public mental health system in the country, and before that chief of mental health for the Miami VA.
Co-founder and Principal Investigator at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, developing personalized neurotechnology and immersive tools that enhance mental states.
A transformative leader in mental health. Executive roles with SoCal Grantmakers and the LA County Department of Mental Health, with a passion for children’s well-being.
Global entrepreneur and executive who leads deep-tech and wellness innovation for startups and Fortune 100 companies worldwide.
UX and UI design expert and Principal Designer at Adobe, co-creating the future of digital imaging.
Former General Counsel at Neural Edge, Inc., with 20 years in corporate and intellectual property law, and experience in real estate and technology strategy.Reality Center exists to provide technology that facilitates positive change for humanity — and to put tools that improve mental, physical and spiritual wellness within reach of far more people than can currently get to them.
The work rests on a theory called Sensory Resonance, published in 1990 by co-founder Don Estes — a medical technologist, laboratory director and neuroscientist who spent decades developing frequency instruments before any of this had a storefront. The theory holds that for every outer sensory mechanism there is an inner one.
When all the senses are synchronised, the body reaches a state that is both relaxing and inspiring. Estes called that state Sensory Resonance. Today it is described as an immersive sensory experience: an altered state opened through the senses, with nothing taken. Everything here — the light, the score, the WaveTable — exists to make it easier to find.
Reality Center is the implementation, not the invention. The founding group is Tarun Raj, Benji Tucker, Don Estes and Jonathan Chia, and the technology reflects more than thirty years of development that predates all of it.
Observational outcomes from a study of Reality Center sessions. These describe what participants reported; individual experiences vary, and none of it is a medical claim.
Figures above are from the UCLA study of Reality Center sessions.
One takes the sessions to people who cannot get here. The other starts with your voice and needs no room at all.
Operation Reset costs the veteran nothing. We provide the room and the hours. Veteran Care Group finds the people and carries everything around it: benefits, counselling, housing, work. Jonathan Chia co-founded it, for the reasons written further up this page.
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Speak for a few seconds. intune reads the patterns in your voice and builds audio around the state you are after, whether that is calm, focus or sleep. Made in Santa Monica by the people who built the room. A wellness tool, not a medical device.
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A full 60-minute session and consultation on the WaveTable. $249
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