What's the Deal With Seinfeld's Virtual Reality Tour?

We've heard a lot about modern takes on Seinfeld in recent years, mostly in the form of parody Twitter accounts. Now one diehard fan of the legendary comedy series is bringing Seinfeld fandom to the that final digital frontier: virtual reality.

The Jerry's Place Oculus Rift mod, created by the programmer and all around tech enthusiast Greg Miller, lovingly recreates Jerry Seinfeld's New York apartment. It's pretty cool, and already available to download for Linux, Mac, and PC.

Miller wrote on the game's website that it took him about a month to build it from the ground up using Unity, a game engine that's popular among amateur and indie developers because it's freely available. Without the support or participation of the Seinfeld team, he relied on screen-caps of the original TV show to get a proper sense of the apartment's layout.

"I tried to be faithful to the shows original props and it's era, but some things were near impossible to Google," Miller wrote on his website. "I did a lot of research and tried to find images of the original products used in the show, and modeled around those dimensions, rather than relying solely on blurry screenshots."

"I found lots of good footage of the bathroom in the episode 'The Barber,' during the part that Newman enters Jerry's bathroom to find a hair sample," he added. "I feel like the main room and the bathroom are very well created, however I could only find one screen shot of Jerry's bedroom, at the end of 'The Chicken Roaster.' I used a blurry screen grab to texture the painting above his bed, and was able to recreate the bed, sheets and nightstands accurately."

Obviously the Seinfeld apartment was a set, so Miller ran into certain challenges when trying to recreate it as a "real" space.

"Unfortunately, due to the dimensions of the apartment it seems like it would be impossible to actually fit the bedroom the way the show depicts it," he wrote. "It came out cramped, but I'm happy with it."

This is just a piece of fan art, albeit a particularly impressive one. So you won't see Kramer bursting into the room, or anything like that. Considering that Seinfeld isn't even available to stream on Netflix yet, it's pretty unlikely that Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld are going to pull a South Park and turn their work into some transmedia interactive experience. But for a hint of color, Miller peppered Jerry's Place with references to the original show, challenging "players" to find them all.

You can download Jerry's Place here.