DarkTube
DarkTube is live and in production. This is its lab: the place where new ideas around it get tried before they graduate.
Clip Drop Experiment
Send a Quest clip (or any video) straight to DarkTube's VR room. Compress it first, if you can: the room is built for small clips and they expire after 7 days. Needs the VR room key.
What is the room key, and where do I get one?
The key is a private password that lets someone send clips to the VR room. It is not an account and there is nothing to sign up for. It is shared by hand with the few people who send clips, so it cannot be looked up or reset here.
If you have a link ending in #k=…, open it and the key fills in for you. Otherwise paste the key in the box below.
If you don't have a key, you don't need one to share a video: use the normal DarkTube upload. Ask whoever runs this lab if you'd like VR room access.
The Cabinet Experimental
An extension of the Chungus Room where the odd ideas go: The Projector (WebGL lenses, audio-reactive glow) and Frame Séance (pick your thumbnail frame). Open the Cabinet →
What lives here
VR clip pipeline The Quest pipeline can send compressed clips to DarkTube (darktube_upload.py), expiring after a week.- Rooms Private spaces with their own rules. The first is a private room with no expiry date, built for a friend of the project.
- The corner portal A page corner that peels back, and a black hole that lands in HD Labs.
- The Dark Archive VR enabled An immersive WebXR viewing room for Meta Quest, on DarkTube.
Next in the lab
- Stronger compression presets and an in-browser squeezer.
- Longer-term storage for clips worth keeping.
- Artwork and short video interludes for rooms.
- Accounts, usernames and custom links.
Part of DarkLabs, by Dre.