Staff at the Seattle Children’s hospital have created the Cat Immersion Project — an audiovisual installation that brought thousands of virtual cats to a teenage cancer patient’s room.

16-year-old cancer patient Maga Barzallo Sockemtickem had spent seven months in the hospital in 2011 and had to return for more treatment in July this year. Because of her compromised immune system, she had to be isolated and was unable to see her beloved cat Merry.