Paste an HLS (.m3u8) or direct video URL (MP4, WebM, MOV). The source needs to allow CORS — most video CDNs do (Cloudflare Stream, Mux, Vimeo direct, AWS with CORS headers).
Try a live 360° sample
Tip: drag a local .mp4 / .webm file anywhere on the
canvas to add it and place it at the drop point in one motion.
Sandbox preview: nothing you paste or drop is saved or shared.
Everything stays in this browser tab. Real production pipelines run through
surfaceforge.ship_to_venue() or Surface Studio (in development).
Surface Forge is the open-source library behind Lit Fuse Studios. It's a bridge for storytellers with real content and a real venue — documentary makers, civic orgs, classroom teachers, museum producers, planetarium educators — who want to ship their work to an immersive room without learning five vendor pipelines.
Maintained by Lit Fuse Studios · developed in partnership with Civic Designers · github.com/litfuse-studios/surface-forge (repo pending public release)
A small playable preview of Surface Forge — the toolkit we use to put community voices into immersive spaces. Real voices from the Table of Free Voices (36 speakers, free to use). Pick a room. Place a voice. Listen.
Start in a room close to yours
Headphones make it sound the way it should. Touch friendly.
Here’s what Surface Forge would package up for the room you’ve picked — the kind of files a venue actually needs:
This is a preview — the real package is generated by the open-source toolkit. See how it works →
Surface Forge is the toolkit we use to put community voices into the spaces where they should be heard — a dome, a wall, a community center, a museum room. This preview lets you feel how it works in your browser.
Made by Lit Fuse Studios in partnership with Civic Designers. The toolkit itself (Surface Forge) is open and free to use.