Might be too much for the meta quest
Spoilers The Roddenberry Archive brings every iteration of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise bridge to life
Yes, but it will need to be tethered to a high end PC. We are showing a demo of it at RenderCon 2026 next month.
Updated chapel.They must do the bowling alley first!
New series exploring the Roddenberry archive dropped its first two episodes on YouTube today.
Nice to see we're getting a companion piece to Larry Nemecek's The Trek Files. There's a lot of good stuff in the Archive, so it's about time more folks get to experience it.
Now, if only they could make the archive easily accessible to researchers, that would be the dream of several of us on TBBS...
I could never get any of the full 3D walkthroughs to work. There's the QuickTime VR/Google Street View-like things where I was able to jump from spot to spot, standing in place and rotate around (I think - it's been a while since I visited the site) but I kept hearing about these fully-immersive-every-room-and-hallway interactive walkthrough's and I've never seen any of them. 
I could never get any of the full 3D walkthroughs to work. There's the QuickTime VR/Google Street View-like things where I was able to jump from spot to spot, standing in place and rotate around (I think - it's been a while since I visited the site) but I kept hearing about these fully-immersive-every-room-and-hallway interactive walkthrough's and I've never seen any of them.
You need Oculus or something for that, right? I’ve only accessed it on a phone, and never seen anything like that.
I could never get any of the full 3D walkthroughs to work. There's the QuickTime VR/Google Street View-like things where I was able to jump from spot to spot, standing in place and rotate around (I think - it's been a while since I visited the site) but I kept hearing about these fully-immersive-every-room-and-hallway interactive walkthrough's and I've never seen any of them.
I’m able to get on my PC and explore the various bridges without the VR gear.
And actual research, as opposed to the garbage some people generate after getting such access.
It can be pretty janky to use. It works by remote control, the "game" is running on their servers, and they're projecting the video back to you over the internet like it's a thousand-mile-long monitor cable. Depending on your OS, browser, or internet speed, not to mention their server load or other web traffic, there are a lot of ways for it to not work perfectly, or at all.I could never get any of the full 3D walkthroughs to work. There's the QuickTime VR/Google Street View-like things where I was able to jump from spot to spot, standing in place and rotate around (I think - it's been a while since I visited the site) but I kept hearing about these fully-immersive-every-room-and-hallway interactive walkthrough's and I've never seen any of them.
I could never get any of the full 3D walkthroughs to work. There's the QuickTime VR/Google Street View-like things where I was able to jump from spot to spot, standing in place and rotate around (I think - it's been a while since I visited the site) but I kept hearing about these fully-immersive-every-room-and-hallway interactive walkthrough's and I've never seen any of them.
It doesn't work on phones, you need a decent laptop or PC. Mine from 2020 does it fine, it loads up same as the phone version but a button appears saying "Explore in 3D" or something like that. Takes a minute or three to load and you're wandering around the sets in first-person.
Here's someone wandering around the Voyager bridge:
Wow... I guess I need to up my GPU game. Ugh... Oh well, I guess it can wait. Thanks all for the responses.
I got the 3D walkthrough to work like a couple of years ago, and then never again. And this is across at least three different computers (some personal, one very powerful work computer made for 3D modeling) and several different browsers. 
It's not the GPU, but I'm at a loss as to what the problem could be. I also brought up this issue a long time ago in this thread, with no real solution then either.
It's not the GPU, but I'm at a loss as to what the problem could be. I also brought up this issue a long time ago in this thread, with no real solution then either.
It might be a pure bandwidth problem then. @David cgc mentioned that it looks like they're doing a server-side "push" of the animation to client browsers. Reminds me of the old HTML 2/3 days of the 90's, before animated GIF's became commonly used and servers were doing animated image pushes, frame-by-frame. This was particularly frustrating since dial-up was the norm back then.
If this in fact the case, anyone with a high-latency connection with high ping rates and lots of hops will instantly see lag. A shame if true - it's a major reason why people may want to peruse the archives. It's going to keep a lot of folks away from visiting what is otherwise an amazing-looking site.
If this in fact the case, anyone with a high-latency connection with high ping rates and lots of hops will instantly see lag. A shame if true - it's a major reason why people may want to peruse the archives. It's going to keep a lot of folks away from visiting what is otherwise an amazing-looking site.
