A gift for someone you love

Go to space. Bring someone a memory.

Explore Earth from orbit, step outside on a spacewalk, and create a personalized 3D postcard for someone you love.

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An astronaut reaches out through a wooden frame above Earth, with a satellite and the space station in the distance.
YOUR JOURNEY. THEIR KEEPSAKE.ORBITAL MEMORIES · KEY ART

Very few people will ever see Earth from orbit. Here, the journey is yours to take.

Headset & browser guide

The journey

A world to explore.
A moment to bring home.

Look around, take the controls, and find your own view of the planet. Then turn that moment into a gift.

The spacecraft cabin, with Earth and orbital objects visible through its windows.

Take your seat.

Look around the cockpit and steer the spacecraft as Earth drifts past the windows. Find the station, satellite, or Moon.

Enter the cockpit
An astronaut outside the spacecraft above the blue curve of Earth.

Step outside.

Float beside the spacecraft, explore the view above Earth, and listen to radio calls from mission control.

Take a spacewalk
The reaching astronaut used in the personalized postcard, with a satellite beside the suit.

Make it personal.

Put your face inside the visor, choose a frame, and create a keepsake to download or share with someone you love.

Open the postcard studio
An example postcard from the studio, with a face inside an astronaut helmet and a message beneath the orbital view.
AN EXAMPLE FROM THE POSTCARD STUDIO

Your keepsake

For the person
you wish was here.

A familiar face inside the helmet. Earth in the background. A little piece of your journey to keep, send, or explore in 3D.

  • Your own photo, framed inside the visor
  • Frame styles and a pop-out 3D view
  • An image to share, or a 3D model to keep
Create your postcard

Photo editing happens in your browser. Use an upload or webcam on a laptop or desktop.

Choose your window into space

Headset or desktop.
Just open your browser.

Explore the orbital world in WebXR, or preview the journey on a screen. No app download is needed.

Inside the world

Use a WebXR-capable headset browser. The experience includes controller support for steering and spacewalking.

  1. Open giftfrom.space in the headset browser.
  2. Start the journey, then select Enter VR.
  3. Use the sticks to move; trigger or A/X switches between cockpit and EVA.

Best enjoyed seated. The VR button appears when immersive VR is supported.

Open the experience

A window from home

Use a laptop or desktop for keyboard flight controls, photo editing, and postcard downloads.

  1. Start the journey and drag to look around.
  2. Use W/A/S/D to steer, then select Spacewalk.
  3. Open Space Postcard to personalize your keepsake.

Visiting on a phone? Watch the film or open the postcard studio and upload a photo.

Go straight to the studio
Flight controls & headset buttons
Cockpit · keyboard
DragLook around
W / SPitch up / down
A / DTurn left / right
Q / ERoll
R / FRaise / lower orbit
POpen / close studio
Spacewalk · keyboard
Drag / wheelLook around / zoom
W / SForward / back
A / DLeft / right
E / QUp / down
Spacewalk buttonReturn to cockpit
WebXR · controllers
Left stickSteer / move
Right stickUp / down in EVA
Trigger or A/XCockpit / EVA
B / YChange orbit speed
Postcard studioUse outside immersive VR

The film

A glimpse of
your time above Earth.

See the cockpit, spacewalk, and postcard studio in the project film. Then take the controls yourself.

Start your own journey

Music: “Titan” by Scott Buckley · CC BY 4.0

Behind the world

Imagined with AI.
Made to be explored.

Generated assets become a real-time orbital scene, an immersive browser experience, and a personal keepsake.

Tripo · 3D assets

The people & objects

The astronauts, seated pilots, spacecraft, satellite, and wooden frame were made with Tripo and prepared for the web.

World Labs Marble · panorama

A place to begin

The generated cockpit panorama surrounds the viewer, with a real-time Earth and orbital objects outside its windows.

Three.js · WebXR

A world that responds

Browser-based flight and EVA controls, headset viewing, and a personalized postcard studio connect the experience.

Who would you bring a memory back for?

Your journey begins in the cockpit.

Start your journey

How it was made

Orbital Memories, by Dedy Effendi Lingga. Built for Tripothon S1 with generative tools and the open web.

Tripo
The spacewalker, reaching astronaut, two seated pilots, spacecraft, satellite, and wooden frame models.
World Labs Marble
The cockpit panorama.
PixVerse
The cabin-to-spacewalk transition, generated from frames of the app.
Earth imagery
NASA Blue Marble.
Three.js
The real-time 3D engine, including the WebXR VR mode.
MediaPipe
Photo background removal and face detection in the postcard studio.
glTF Transform
Preparing and optimizing 3D models for the web.
Cloudflare
Hosting.
Claude
AI coding and design assistance for the original experience.
Music
“Titan” by Scott Buckley (CC BY 4.0), in the project film.

Open the 3D asset showcase