Hand the visualsto the crowd
VJAM is a browser-based VJ suite built at Realitycraft so any guest can step up, take the room, and shape the story playing on every screen in real time.
Add your own images or short videos to make VJAM your own visual jam, for any projector, screen, or display at your event, venue, or installation.
Walkthrough
VJAM Demo Video
What is VJAM?
Interactive VJ Suite
VJAM is a browser based visual performance system that turns anyone into a VJ. Built for live events, parties, and public art installations, it pairs real time generative visuals with audience driven content. No special hardware, no downloads, no learning curve.
Narrative Control
Guests don't just watch. They remix. At the Reality Games premiere, partygoers layered their own messages over movie memes and shaped the visual story of the night in real time. Every event becomes a one of a kind, co-created media artifact.
◇ 01, Controls
The Control Surface
Every knob, fader, and button in VJAM and what it does, organized into five zones plus transport.
◇ ZONE 01
Deck A / B + Crossfader
Two independent media decks with dropdowns for stills, video loops, or animated vjam-pack scenes. Crossfader blends between them. Nudge mid-set with ← / →.
◇ ZONE 02
Color Lab
Output color correction applied after crossfading. Hue rotates 0–360°. Saturation defaults to 140%, contrast to 110% for punchy live output.
◇ ZONE 03
Overlay Knobs
Independent hue/sat/opacity on the active procedural overlay or vjam-pack scene layer, separate from the Color Lab so you can color-contrast against the deck below.
◇ ZONE 04
Tempo & Timing
BPM sets session tempo. Interval = beats per phrase (Autopilot clock). Transition speed defaults to 800ms smooth. Tap Space for a manual beat.
◇ ZONE 05
FX & Overlays
7 glitch shaders (glitch, invert, psychedelic, scanlines, chroma, rgb-split) and 14 procedural overlays (grid, dots, rays, noise, waves, moire, spiral, halftone, kaleido, bubbles, EQ, more). Toggle with F.
◇ TRANSPORT
Autopilot · Takeover · Fullscreen
Autopilot advances on each phrase (sequential or random). Takeover hides UI and fills the window (T to toggle, Esc to exit). Text Drop layers animated text with 10 presets.
◇ 02, Shortcuts
Keyboard Control
All shortcuts work in normal and Takeover mode, keep your hands off the mouse during a live set.
◇ 03, vjam-pack
24 Visionary Scenes
Animated procedural canvas scenes that run entirely in the browser, no video files. Use as deck sources or overlay layers.
◇ 04, Deployments
Where VJAM Lives
VJAM is designed to be deployed, forked, and branded. The engine stays the same, media library and skin change.
Ghost of Link Wray × Evo.ist, the canonical feature-complete deployment. Full vjam-pack, GoLW media library, audio playlist, text presets, and all current controls. Reference for new features.
Realitycraft base deployment. Upstream source and recommended starting point for remixing. Controls standardized to match GoLW. Realitycraft branded media library.
Reality Games variant, earliest public deployment. Retained as a reference for development history. Subset of current controls. Not updated with new features.
◇ 05, Open Source
Built to Be Remixed
VJAM is open source. Fork it. Brand it. Swap the media library for your own artwork and videos. Keep the engine. The Ghost of Link Wray deployment is the example of a full branded remix.
Built to Play
Customize VJAM for Any Use
Every VJAM build is shaped to the room, the IP, and the audience. Drop in your assets, your memes, your characters, your storyworld. Then let the crowd extend it live. The platform is designed to keep things playful and stretch every IP into the moment.
Spill the storyworld into the room
Stretch a feature, series, or shorts release into the afterparty. Guests remix stills, clips, and memes from the film while the cast mingles. The visuals become a live trailer the room is making together.
Asset Pack
Stills, key art, clip loops, character memes, title cards
Live Flow
Pre-show idle reel · post-screening crowd takeover · cast intro flash
Reality Games Premiere Afterparty
VJAM debuted on May 16, 2026 at Gray Area in San Francisco for the premiere of Reality Games, a new film by director Michael Morgenstern. More than 300 guests packed the room. Dozens grabbed the controls and played VJ live, remixing memes from the film and dropping their own "narrative control" messages into the visual stream all night.
Date
May 16, 2026
Venue
Gray Area, San Francisco
Attendance
300+ guests
Made possible by a grant from the Reality Games film team, supporting interactive art at the intersection of cinema and live participation.
Case Study: Building VJAM
May 2026 at Realitycraft
VJAM was built in May 2026 at Realitycraft as an experiment in participatory media. The goal was simple. Make a lightweight, browser based VJ rig that drops into any venue and lets guests run the visuals from the phone in their pocket. No downloads. No training. Just walk up and play.
The Film Partnership
When director Michael Morgenstern and the Reality Games film team opened the door to art installations, Evo spotted an opening. The film is about media manipulation and narrative control, and VJAM let those ideas spill off the screen and into the room. A grant from the film team funded the premiere installation and turned the afterparty into a living extension of the movie's storyworld.
The Premiere Experience
Gray Area is a 300 capacity venue in San Francisco's Mission District. VJAM was projected on a wall visible on the dance floor and throughout the space. After the screening, guests flowed into the afterparty and dozens took turns at the VJ station, remixing clips from Reality Games and broadcasting their own "narrative control" messages across every wall while earning takeover points for their team. The result was a living, crowd sourced visual score for the night, remixing the memes from the movie in playful narrative takedowns.
Experience VJAM
Try the newest VJAM build with procedural art, run the Reality Games premiere suite, or license VJAM for your own event.
Bringing VJAM to a festival, premiere, tour, or public space? Reach Evo at evo@playable.agency