Five themed rooms. Voice chat. Quest 3 + desktop. Walk in with a friend and the avatars move, the doors swing, the targets slide on rails. Open standards from top to bottom — anyone with a browser is already in.
The frame
A central lounge with a door on each wall. Walk through any door and the world keeps going — a shooting range, an F1 garage, an escape foyer, a build zone. No loading screens, no app store.
Top-down. Doors are physical — swing them open, walk through, the next room is already loaded.
Curved sectional, glowing rug, four arched doorways. Where you spawn, where everyone meets up.
Bullseye + silhouette on ceiling rails, sandbag cover, weapon wall. Live scoreboard.
Glowing F1 car in the bay. Tap to portal into /racing.html — a separate track scene.
A small antechamber. The door is a portal — click it and you load into /escape.html.
Open the palette, click a block, it spawns in front of you. Grab and place. Local only — Phase 1.
Rings of a gas giant, a drifting blue moon, hemisphere light bouncing warm off the floor. Calm.
How it works
Five stages, in order. Each one is a piece you could swap, fork, or rebuild — the whole thing is just web standards stacked carefully.
No download, no app store, no login. The join overlay asks two things — your name and whether the mic should be on — then drops you straight into the lounge.
On Quest 3, the same URL pops a button in the bottom corner: Enter VR.
The scene is HTML. Literally — <a-box>, <a-cylinder>, <a-plane> nested into rooms. A-Frame turns it into a real 3D world with shadows, fog, HDR lighting, and physics.
Open view-source and you can read the whole house. That's the point.
Behind the scene, NAF 0.14.3 talks to a tiny relay server. When a new tab connects, both browsers learn about each other and the avatars start syncing — head, hands, position, all 60 times a second.
It's WebRTC for voice, WebSockets for state, no proprietary anything.
Each door is a real swinging entity. Click or grab — it rotates 100°, you walk through, and you're in target range, garage, escape foyer, or build zone.
One door is a portal instead — the F1 garage car and the escape foyer door both load a separate scene at /racing.html or /escape.html. Different physics, different camera, same browser tab.
No SDK. No closed runtime. A-Frame is MIT, Networked-A-Frame is MIT, every model is open-format glTF. The room you're standing in is a .html file you can read, copy, and run.
Keaton's the first author. The next one could be a friend, a classmate, you.
Surfaces
The chat panel and the build palette — both are HTML overlays sitting on top of the 3D scene. Keyboard and pointer for desktop; controller and hand-tracking for Quest.
Press T or tap the 💬 button. Type with everyone's voice still live in the background.
Tap 🔨 BUILD. Pick a primitive. It spawns one meter in front of you. X to delete, drag to place.
What surrounds it
Six layers, all open. Each one is a thing you could replace without burning down the others.
HTML-style entity component system on top of three.js. Declarative tags, real WebGL output, MIT licensed.
Syncs avatars, hand poses, and grabbed objects across browsers. Uses the wseasyrtc adapter for the relay handshake.
Peer-to-peer audio, mediated by the relay only for signaling. No telemetry, no third-party voice SDK.
Rec Room / Bonelab–style grabby physics. Gravity, static bodies, ragdoll-able primitives.
Native Quest 3 support. Snap-turn and comfort vignette via aframe-locomotion for kids who motion-sick easy.
The rooms are static files. The relay (Node + Socket.io) runs on a Tailscale machine. No platform lock-in.
Chapter two · summer 2026
The multiplayer VR house still runs — you can walk into it at /archive-vr. But the homepage of keatons.design became something new: RoomFox, a phone-first bedroom designer that anyone can open in 30 seconds. Same web-standards spirit. Different problem.
The VR house was beautiful but empty most days. You needed a Quest, a friend, and a reason to show up. Keaton wanted something a classmate could open on a phone at lunch and actually use.
Set your room in feet, drop in a bed, desk, dresser, rug — every piece has real-world dimensions. Drag on a top-down canvas. Upload a photo of your actual floor and it becomes the background.
Phone camera + TensorFlow.js COCO-SSD runs locally. Point at your bed, couch, desk — it detects them, taps to add. No upload, no server. Real-time bounding boxes over live video.
Tap a piece, snap a photo of the real thing, Meshy AI builds a glTF model in 1–3 minutes. Then hit Walk in VR and your bedroom, with your actual furniture, renders in A-Frame. Quest 3 or desktop.
Analyzes room fill %, bed-to-wall placement, TV-to-couch distance. "That's tight, you'll bump into stuff." "Push the headboard against the longest wall." Interior design as a tap.
The whole room encodes into a base64 URL. Text it to a friend, they open your exact layout on their phone. No account, no backend, no login.
Separate app, same site. Record a sequence of taps and waits on a canvas, replay them with a floating finger cursor. A programmable autoclicker for touchscreen games — built the same weekend.
Five commits, one pivot. Each move shipped as its own atomic version — the multiplayer house is preserved untouched at /archive-vr.
What stayed the same: Static HTML. Open web standards. View-source the whole thing. A-Frame still runs the VR walkthrough. glTF still moves the 3D. The site is still a single tab — no app store, no login, no SDK. Keaton is still the first author. The pivot changed the surface, not the philosophy.
Glossary
The five terms a parent, teacher, or scout might want a one-line answer for.
Open the door
The room is live right now. Bring a friend, bring a Quest, bring nothing but a laptop. Knock around for a few minutes.