Halcyon Video – a 3D video store for your media server

(github.com)

72 points | by Gander5739 5 days ago ago

18 comments

  • dylan604 a day ago ago

    Navigation was difficult as the screen eats the cursor which resulted in blind clicks, and the arrow keys did not move around as expected. Smashing esc/enter blindly eventually led me to checking out. The animation rendered the case going into the bag but then rendered the object on the outside of the back as if it was stuck with velcro instead of sitting inside.

  • myshapeprotocol a day ago ago

    A 3D video store architecture is a fascinating approach to spatial media management. Great to see more 3D-first tooling popping up.

    • _def a day ago ago

      I agree, but I wonder if it's inherently missing being a shared space. Even if these were commercial places, other people interacted with them in different ways, which shaped it to some degree

    • jauntywundrkind a day ago ago

      And just so much love and care crammed in.

      > Four decades of fit-out — board signage and VHS in 1990, the fascia-band era in 1993, arched plaques in 2000, wire-black DVD shelving in 2010.

      > VHS or DVD — the whole store re-cased, on correctly-proportioned rental shells.

      And day/night, etc. Lots of great features too.

      > Remote Play streams the live store to any browser, with its own TURN relay for off-LAN viewers.

      I love the README design. Shows the breadth, encourages demo use. Does it…? is a great user-centric section, where it can give some emphatic yes yes yes'es! Touching project, a very fine homage to the past.

  • a_c a day ago ago

    I have a similar project, with goodreaads records https://github.com/kmcheung12/goodshelf

  • thepryz a day ago ago

    Would love to see this applied to VR so that users consuming content in a Meta Quest, Vision Pro, etc. can navigate the video store to browse, and then once they find what they want to watch, walking out the door takes them into a virtual theatre or living rom environment.

  • trezm a day ago ago

    I can smell the screenshots -- that's how accurate the portrayal is. Well done.

  • andai a day ago ago

    Method of Loci! Finally, I can remember where everything is...

  • schlauerfox a day ago ago

    You need to hire someone to just record judgy videos of each of the famous titles, to get the full effect. Make it look like a 16bit era videocoded like nighttrap or myst.

    • k12sosse a day ago ago

      just generate the opinionated teen locally on your GPU using LTX or something similar

  • transtiana a day ago ago

    I've tried creating something similar since 2013. Never could get it right. My idea was closer to that of a Japanese Adult Video Store.

  • dddw a day ago ago

    Haha this is hilarious

  • iamcoder18 a day ago ago

    This is so well thought out.

  • xgulfie a day ago ago

    Hell yes. I had this idea kicking around in my head a year or so ago but it was too daunting to implement.

  • ralusek a day ago ago

    Mental, that

  • puppycodes a day ago ago

    lol this is a really good idea.

  • LIzzyytujghf 20 hours ago ago

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  • schlauerfox a day ago ago

    New word of the day: Skeuomorphism

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph