Father and son go viral with DIY immersive Minecraft pod | Lifestyle [Video]

After opening an air hockey table for the family to play with, Kevin and Gibson Honeycutt soon found the real toy was the package.

With six pieces of cardboard, the inventive father-and-son duo from Colorado Springs built a hexagonal structure big enough to fit a person inside. From there, they decided to take it further, crafting a DIY planetarium using a fan to inflate a screen ceiling.

“We had the whole living room destroyed,” joked Kevin, father to 9-year-old Gibson. “We were projecting on there, and thinking how that looked like the dome in Las Vegas. And so while I’m doing that, and I’m thinking of donating this to my son’s school so they can use it in the classroom, Gibson goes in there and hooks up his Switch.”

Plugging in his Nintendo Switch gaming system to project on the screen, Gibson began to play one of his favorite games, …