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Rekall VHS Store

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Theme: Architecture, Big Things

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17 May, 2022 @ 11:40am

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Step back in a time capsule of the 80s & 90s by visiting the Rekall VHS store!

This custom environment is a throwback to the old fashioned mom-and-pop video rental store.
This map aims to bring back the magical feeling these places used to hold. :D
The store layout is a recreation (from memory) of existing places that were around at the time. I've custom modeled and set dressed it with hundreds of different VHS cases!
Panels for Games, Friends and Rooms are included.
In addition, a few surprises are scattered to uncover.

It contains a few assets which were purchased or are shared under the CC licence:

-Cardboard Box Set- Low Poly by Pixel Monster on Sketchfab
-StormTrooper (Rigged) by Grand Dog Studio on Sketchfab with animations from Mixamo
-Simple-tv by Neverfollow81 on Sketchfab

-Vintage CRT TV 29 inch - Black by nollieinward on CGTrader
-Telephone 01 by madassets on CGTrader
-Cash Register by nicolas-habonneau on CGTrader

Special thank you to Rectus for providing the code and tips to getting the moviefiles and youtube player to work!
Special special thanks to Gatemoon/Rickard who's patience was tested extensively in trying to testdrive this map!

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VRGuy0ne [author] 4 May @ 9:44am

@ kirokatashi

Thanks!
Yes, I spotted one of the videos is currently blocked (the Predator 2 vhs opening)
Also one of the songs is blocked.
Including the actual videos in the upload so they would't be on youtube, didn't work hence why I went with the youtube route.
I'll keep it in mind if I make modifications to get them working again.

kirokatashi 25 Apr @ 2:42am

It's very cool, but one of the tv's video got removed from youtube.

VRGuy0ne [author] 23 Mar @ 12:57pm

@ Lord Xantix
Thank you so much for sharing your experience :) It truely makes me happy this place has found an audience.

This environment was indeed modeled after a real place local to my area, in fact the streets you see outside is indeed where the store was located. (I took those pictures to recreate the outside setting as accurately as I could) .
The layout on the inside is different, I couldn't remember exactly how it looked but it sorta resembled it. (The theatre obviously wasn't there ;)
Thanks for the comment! :)

Lord Xantix 1 Mar @ 7:06am

This environment is my default home in VR. For me, it represents a simpler time and lots of memories. Growing up, I rented VHS from a store looking almost like this one.
Thank you for this amazing piece of work!

VRGuy0ne [author] 31 Jan @ 5:23am

@ IvoryDeer

It's a joy to read your comment, thanks for taking the time to give the feedback!
It was indeed made with the sole purpose of taking you back in time to relive the VHS experience.
Those of us old enough knew what it was like, it's a bit of magic that's been lost in the last few decades. I miss it so much so wanted to recreate that feeling :)
I'm glad it moved you, thanks for sharing that :)

(Apologies for the late reply, I haven't checked here in a long while ^^;)

IvoryDeer 26 Dec, 2024 @ 4:44pm

This is clearly a labor of love! All those videoboxes you can grab and look at, even with the backsides readable!

The music, the place, the posters, the screens playing clips - all of that is so neatly made and really like it was "back then".

I nearly had tears in my eyes when I was there in VR.

Thank you so much for doing this with all the details and so much passion - I absolutely love it and it really brought me back!

Cromulent 14 Dec, 2023 @ 7:57pm

Thanks for the reply - there is somewhat of a workaround via the new Steam Link quest app (or Virtual Desktop I suppose) and loading into the SteamVR background while streaming Steam from a PC.

Not the native Quest background, but at least a way to visit the Rekall store via Quest.

VRGuy0ne [author] 12 Dec, 2023 @ 12:45am

@ Kawsuvdeth

This environment was build and is running in SteamVr (the source 2 game engine). I'm unsure if it's easy portable to quest.
I do have the meshes but I'm assuming it'll have to be remade in Unity or Unreal to get it properly ported over to Meta.
It's not something I'm currently pursuing in doing ^^;

@ Wagamama

Thank you, very happy reading that!
I indeed tried to make it like how it was (or how remember it), it's not meant to be a 'inspired by' or 'reimagening' ;)
All the posters and sleeves are the real deal, to not break the illussion.

There is a way to play a movie in the theatre, you need to set up a movie panel:
I've detailed the process in this twitter post:
https://twitter.com/VRGuy0ne/status/1558809349786566662

I couldn't save it the environment itself so you have to manually import it.

Thank you greatly for your feedback :)

wagamama 5 Dec, 2023 @ 10:13am

Unexpectedly, this room brought tears to my eyes. While never been to a video store in Europe, but seeing the era apapropriate posters, worn cardboard covers, seeing the shelf catagories, the non-studio affiliated chunking of titles.. just glorious. I worked in a mom and pop video store in my youth, and had no idea how much memory i had linked to those vhs sleeves, or just the juxtaposition of titles, or posters or standees that belong in a video store. Clearly you lived this, and this isn't an 80's mashup of what gen z thinks the 80's/90's were. I love what you did. how to i play a movie in the theater?

Cromulent 4 Nov, 2023 @ 5:34pm

Any plans on porting this to Quest (Sidequest)? I absolutely love this environment, but have been using my Quest more lately and would love to set it as a home environment there.

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