Bigscreen Beyond – Small VR Headset
Bigscreen VR is the most disappointing VR app I'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're watching together in a theater.<p>In practice my options are to:<p>- pay to watch "a vast movie selection" 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 "wait is it showing a black screen for you guys?" troubleshooting. It only runs on beefy PCs right now but don'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'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's the experience I want to watch a film with friends in Bigscreen:<p>- log into my Netflix/Hulu/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'd like to be able to:<p>- drag and drop a video file into bigscreen.com/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://www.bigscreenvr.com/movies/catalog" rel="nofollow">https://www.bigscreenvr.com/movies/catalog</a><p>2. <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/457550/Bigscreen_Beta/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/app/457550/Bigscreen_Beta/</a><p>3. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/c7kx2n/bigscreen_vr_and_macos/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/c7kx2n/bigscre...</a><p>4. <a href="https://immersiveweb.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://immersiveweb.dev/</a><p>5. <a href="https://www.turbosquid.com/Search/3D-Models/free/theater" rel="nofollow">https://www.turbosquid.com/Search/3D-Models/free/theater</a>