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Halcyon Video – a 3D video store for your media server
Your Jellyfin library, rebuilt as a walkable 1990s video rental store. Every
movie you own is a case on a shelf. Browse the aisles under warm fluorescents,
pull Back to the Future off the wall, flip it over and read the back of the
box, carry it to the counter, and watch the clerk drop it in a bag that
crinkles around it. Then take it home to the living room and put it in the VCR.
Walk in from the parking lot — brick facade, glazed-tile stripe, the blue
board on the gable, your movie posters in the windows.
Try it right now, no server, no signup: https://halcyon-video.github.io/halcyon-video/ — the full store running
on a synthetic demo library. Or take the
45-second tour ▶ first.
Heads-up: the demo boots the entire ~2,000-title store into your browser —
expect a few GB of memory and real GPU use, and prefer a plugged-in machine
over a laptop on battery. (It's built to live on a dedicated HTPC, where it
idles near zero; a leaner demo is on the list.)
None of this is a preset you pick once. Era, lighting, floor plan and media
format are independent settings, and every combination is a store you can walk
around in. More ↓
The short answers, so you don't have to go looking for them.
A Vite + TypeScript + three.js app (optionally Tauri-wrapped) that connects
to Jellyfin and procedurally builds a period video
store from whatever you have: every library becomes an aisle, genres become
signposted sections, duplicate quality versions stack behind the face copy, the
worst-rated titles literally end up in the Bargain Bin. It runs 24/7 on an
HTPC as our family's way to pick a movie — and when nobody's touching it, it
renders nothing at all and idles at near-zero CPU/GPU for days.
The screenshots in this README show the store running its built-in demo
catalog — public-domain classics on every shelf, no media server attached
(the same thing the live demo link runs). Point it at your Jellyfin and every
case becomes something you own. This isn't a tech demo that gets old in five
minutes; it's how our family has picked a movie every night for months.
Your most recent arrivals, faced out floor-to-high with the multi-copy depth of
a real street date, under the "2-EVENING NEW RELEASE RENTAL $3" sign.
Enter lifts the case into your hands — retail art in front, the store's rental
copy behind it. Flip it: