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Very cool!

I've wanted to build something similar to this for music. Some virtual environment where you can organize your albums on shelves and play them on a turntable.

You could even extend this so you have to walk to a store to buy new albums etc.

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I can't remember the name, unfortunately, but a year ago, I saw a oculus quest VR environment which re-created a standard 90s era bedroom. The user could then add a text file containing a bunch of YouTube URLs and all the associated YouTube videos got represented as physical VHS tapes that you had to put into the actual VCR in order to play them on the TV in the room.

Most probably EmuVR.

You also get to play NES and some other systems on a variety of old virtual TVs. :)

Sansar had that years ago. They re-created Aech's basement from Ready Player One, with walls of tapes in various formats.[1] This could be explored in VR. It was good for a few minutes of amusement, but not useful. They didn't have the rights to let you play much of the collection.

There's a business in Second Life which has virtual video stores, where all the videos are in boxes on shelves. You can walk around, look at the titles, rent them, and play them on your virtual TV. Have friends over to your virtual house and you all see the same thing. They have some rights deal which lets them do this for a few hundred videos. The selection is comparable to what Redbox stocked. This was big during COVID lockdown; not so much now.

[1] https://atlas.sansar.com/experiences/sansar-studios/ready-pl...

This is a version of a book you can see in WebXR and there are examples on his YouTube of flipping through pages to read [1]

Also an interesting new template project in ThreeJS/React R3F [2]

[1] https://zachernuk.neocities.org/autobook/

[2] https://x.com/wawasensei/status/1817118226545053706

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