GoKawiilHalcyon 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.
It is not a menu with a skin on it. It's a store.
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.)
The same library, four ways
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 ↓
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. Day, sunset, night — the light through the front glass, on eight measured-sun HDR skies. Three floor plans — herringbone, straight, or diagonal shelf runs, packed to fit the room. VHS or DVD — the whole store re-cased, on correctly-proportioned rental shells.
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