Hey everyone!
We are SO EXCITED to launch a new Bigscreen update today, with a brand new free feature: videoplayer.
The new Bigscreen videoplayer lets you watch your own video files, in any of our virtual environments (movie theaters, campfires, space station, etc.), and watch videos together with friends!
Social: Watch videos together with friends
If your friends also have the same video file, Bigscreen will automatically sync the video so you can watch the video together! Bigscreen doesn't stream/share the video file, so your friends will need the files on their own device.
Cross-Platform: works on all supported headsets
The videoplayer works across all supported headsets: Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, HTC Vive, Valve Index, all SteamVR headsets, and all Windows Mixed Reality headsets!
Watch 3D videos in VR: many file types supported
The videoplayer supports 2D & 3D movies (Side-by-side 3D or Over-under 3D), and it supports most of the common filetypes.
Multi-tasking: use your Windows PC, multiple monitors, alongside the videoplayer
Bigscreen already lets you use your Windows PC in VR. It also supports multiple monitors. The videoplayer can be used alongside your Windows PC desktop screens, allowing multi-tasking capabilities. Note: multi-tasking currently works best on PC VR, as Quest/Go mobile headsets are more limited today.
This videoplayer doesn't yet support any 180/360 content, and we don't support DLNA/Plex yet, but we're considering those features.
Give Us Feedback
After trying out our videoplayer, we would appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to fill out this short survey. Let us know what you think of the videoplayer! If you have any feature requests or bugs, please let me know here or in our Discord.
What's Next
- Bigscreen Friends system
- New environments
- Redesigned new avatar system
- Built-in YouTube and TV channels into rooms
- More movie studio partnerships to host 3D movie screenings
New Movies Added to Our Catalog
- Mission: Impossible - Fallout
- Catch Me If You Can
- I Am A Hero
- Sword of the Stranger
- The Boy and the Beast
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- Minority Report is now available in the UK