Bigscreen v99: Light Dimmer Update! Coming Soon: Video Player
Hi everyone!
It's time for another Bigscreen update, version 0.99!
[h2]New Feature[/h2]
We added a small feature here, a Light Dimmer, in our home and cinema environments. It allows you to adjust the room lighting to be as bright or dark as you want!
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[h2]Akira & Anime[/h2]
We've recently announced a couple major updates to Bigscreen and a new partnership with Sony Pictures' anime division, Funimation. Tonight, we're hosting the famous film, Akira, at 6PM PDT.
As you all know, movie licensing is incredibly complicated and expensive. Licensing internationally is even harder. I'm proud to say today, our anime films will also be available to people living in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
So tonight for the first time ever, anime fans across continents and time zones will be able to meet up in a "movie theater" to watch Akira together.
[h2]What's next? VIDEO PLAYER[/h2]
We've been developing our own video player over the past year. At launch, it will work offline and singleplayer, in your own rooms. It will allow you to pull up a local videofile stored on your Quest. It won't be social (no streaming), and it won't support 180/360VR videos. But we're working on a new service for later in 2020 that will enable people to browse files together. The focus for now is to have a really great local file videoplayer on Quest & PC VR headsets.
Alpha testing will begin next week Monday, May 18th, so sign up on our Discord for early access. Look for the #videoplayer-alpha-testing channel.
We're working super hard on many projects right now, including a friends system, more environments, better desktop screensharing features, more 3D movies, and larger room sizes. The rest of 2020 will be packed with tons of updates :)
Stay safe!
Bigscreen Team
It's time for another Bigscreen update, version 0.99!
[h2]New Feature[/h2]
We added a small feature here, a Light Dimmer, in our home and cinema environments. It allows you to adjust the room lighting to be as bright or dark as you want!
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
[h2]Akira & Anime[/h2]
We've recently announced a couple major updates to Bigscreen and a new partnership with Sony Pictures' anime division, Funimation. Tonight, we're hosting the famous film, Akira, at 6PM PDT.
As you all know, movie licensing is incredibly complicated and expensive. Licensing internationally is even harder. I'm proud to say today, our anime films will also be available to people living in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
So tonight for the first time ever, anime fans across continents and time zones will be able to meet up in a "movie theater" to watch Akira together.
[h2]What's next? VIDEO PLAYER[/h2]
We've been developing our own video player over the past year. At launch, it will work offline and singleplayer, in your own rooms. It will allow you to pull up a local videofile stored on your Quest. It won't be social (no streaming), and it won't support 180/360VR videos. But we're working on a new service for later in 2020 that will enable people to browse files together. The focus for now is to have a really great local file videoplayer on Quest & PC VR headsets.
Alpha testing will begin next week Monday, May 18th, so sign up on our Discord for early access. Look for the #videoplayer-alpha-testing channel.
We're working super hard on many projects right now, including a friends system, more environments, better desktop screensharing features, more 3D movies, and larger room sizes. The rest of 2020 will be packed with tons of updates :)
Stay safe!
Bigscreen Team