Lightfield VR — VR Playhouse
Lightfield VR — VR Playhouse
A lightfield VR recreation of the first moon landing, shot on the Lytro Immerge at VR Playhouse — a full lunar surface built on a soundstage.
Why it matters: a lightfield captures real depth, so a viewer can lean and look around the scene with true parallax — the moon has dimension, not a painted backdrop.
What it took
The Lytro Immerge records the scene through a dense array of lenses — not one image, but a whole volume of light.
Play it back in a headset and the viewer moves through it with real parallax, the way you would on a set.
The lunar surface was built for real — sculpted foam terrain, a lander, and dressed regolith, all on a blacked-out stage.
A practical set gives the lightfield something true to capture.
"A volume of light, not a flat image —"
The stage was captured with photogrammetry and lidar — a dense point cloud of the real set used to extend and finish the world.
Houdini rebuilt from the scan; Nuke pulled it all together.
