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.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.In practice my options are to:- pay to watch "a vast movie selection" of 140 films, the majority of which are anime[1]- 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].- 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.When it works though it's so good. 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.Here's the experience I want to watch a film with friends in Bigscreen:- log into my Netflix/Hulu/Disney+ account through Bigscreen- create a new room- pick a movie- share an invite codeI understand for that to work Bigscreen would need to make complicated partnerships happen, so in the meanwhile I'd like to be able to:- drag and drop a video file into bigscreen.com/newroom- see an invite code I can join from my headset and share with other peoplePlease 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].1. https://www.bigscreenvr.com/movies/catalog2. https://store.steampowered.com/app/457550/Bigscreen_Beta/3. https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/c7kx2n/bigscre...4. https://immersiveweb.dev/5. https://www.turbosquid.com/Search/3D-Models/free/theater