Bigscreen Beyond – Small VR Headset
Bigscreen VR is the most disappointing VR app I&#x27;ve ever used. Please stop wasting time making hardware and make your app better.<p>I see the potential and I experience the need regularly: I want to watch movies with friends remotely in a cool VR environment that feels like we&#x27;re watching together in a theater.<p>In practice my options are to:<p>- pay to watch &quot;a vast movie selection&quot; of 140 films, the majority of which are anime[1]<p>- run the buggy (and so aptly named) Bigscreen Beta PC client[2] which will probably crash during weird unlikely edge cases like your screensaver turning on and critically depends on your internet upload speed for a good movie watching experience for everyone. Get ready for frequent &quot;wait is it showing a black screen for you guys?&quot; troubleshooting. It only runs on beefy PCs right now but don&#x27;t worry: a macOS version is being worked on circa 2019[3].<p>- send the video file to everyone and get them to download it to a folder of their headset (which involves running Android File Transfer; nontechnical friends will struggle) then start a shared room. Arguably the least painful option with the best overall quality.<p>When it works though it&#x27;s <i>so good</i>. Watching a film in Bigscreen feels like watching a film in an actual theater. Their drawing and popcorn throwing features are hilarious and fun. Their spacial audio is a blast. Their selection of virtual theaters is plentiful.<p>Here&#x27;s the experience I want to watch a film with friends in Bigscreen:<p>- log into my Netflix&#x2F;Hulu&#x2F;Disney+ account through Bigscreen<p>- create a new room<p>- pick a movie<p>- share an invite code<p>I understand for that to work Bigscreen would need to make complicated partnerships happen, so in the meanwhile I&#x27;d like to be able to:<p>- drag and drop a video file into bigscreen.com&#x2F;newroom<p>- see an invite code I can join from my headset and share with other people<p>Please someone create this experience. You can use WebXR[4] to do the whole thing with the web stack you already know and you could probably just download a ready-made 3D model of a movie theater[5].<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bigscreenvr.com&#x2F;movies&#x2F;catalog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bigscreenvr.com&#x2F;movies&#x2F;catalog</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;457550&#x2F;Bigscreen_Beta&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;457550&#x2F;Bigscreen_Beta&#x2F;</a><p>3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;OculusQuest&#x2F;comments&#x2F;c7kx2n&#x2F;bigscreen_vr_and_macos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;OculusQuest&#x2F;comments&#x2F;c7kx2n&#x2F;bigscre...</a><p>4. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;immersiveweb.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;immersiveweb.dev&#x2F;</a><p>5. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.turbosquid.com&#x2F;Search&#x2F;3D-Models&#x2F;free&#x2F;theater" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.turbosquid.com&#x2F;Search&#x2F;3D-Models&#x2F;free&#x2F;theater</a>