Whirligig VR Media Player Reviews

I overlooked this application a while ago, at the time it didn't work for my needs and refunded it. That said as I was using DEO VIdeo CPU Gobbler taking 50% sometimes even 100 percent of my CPU, it had to go. Tried Whirligig and it was way more usable, lightweight and the biggest selling point is it doesn't grind my computer to a halt. Respect to the developer for taking constructive feedback and making an insane application, has a lot of features other media players don't, I haven't run across any that autoplay the next file. That said its not really plug in play, you kind of have to mess around with it to get what you want and luckily thats where the save/load presets come in handy. Things I like Autoplay Cosmetic Controllers Customization of backgrounds Lightweight Random file feature, however i wish you could go back instead of that being random but maybe thats just me. like if you pressed Left on the left control stick. Slideshow However I do have some requests, Pausing once a menu has opened is really quite annoying, [strike] like if you skip ahead in the progress bar it pauses it [/strike] there's ways to prevent this from happening like binding Up on the left controller to pause play and that's really the biggest complaint or lack of feature from me. png webp gif and ( i cant remember if jpeg was one of them) files don't seem to open hopefully that's fixed in the future. and lastly clicking on shortcuts in the explorer menu specifically the premade ones for clicking on Videos, Downloads or Images can and will break you from interacting with other media, if you try and go to one of your Shortcut 1-10 the files show up for a split second and disappear. which can be annoying cause you can fix the problem not knowing what you did or it doesn't fix at all. Also I don't know how to reprogram any of the Shortcuts 1 through 10

Despite what some people here are saying, I have no problems with this player whatsoever. No motion sickness, no problems playing MKVs (I've only tried two different ones though, both about 14 GBs in size). Controls work well when using an XBOX controller. But for the price I feel like I recieved an excellent product.

I think it used to work in the past but now it doesn't play anything. So far, DeoVR is what works for me. ok, tried doing the reset, still does not play most of the videos. I only get the error message that whirligig cannot open the file.

This developer has hit it out of the park with this one IMO. More versatility, options, and control over everything from the environment to the picture itself. Control feels so tune-able that you can compensate for vision issues almost. VLC support for remote file access, add on the ability to utilize this with virtually any VR platform even Mobile and Phone*( not native just hella easier with this and something like iVRy) and just a ton more to play with and is still basically in beta at this stage. Leaps better than any of the other dozens of VR theater or media player apps I have tried over the last few years!

Good VR video player. Seems to play all the formats that I've thrown at it, and has may options for getting the VR 3D view looking correct. My go-to VR movie player for many years now.

unreliable, has a mind of its own. drops settings, resets itself. No way to change back rather then reinstalling a beta. All betas show the same behavior, just brakes after a short while. frustrating. not recommended

Good for "Researching" various videos from the internet. I needed to install a codec pack before all videos worked. I wish it remembered the last settings I last used to play a video. For the most part you will only need to change two settings: Format of Barrel Stereo OU (Over Under) or Barrel Stereo SBS (Side By Side) and then FOV to either 180 or 360

I like prawns. I use this player to watch prawn videos. Every update makes things run worse. The last one made it where I could not adjust tilt or any sliders without the selector being "stuck." It is basically unusable and not worth $5 or whatever it costs now. Listen, you paid a ton of money to watch prawn videos on VR, spring for a decent player. I bought HereSphere and it is leaps and bounds better. Yes, it's more costly, but your prawn will thank you.

I cant believe it, its so good on an Valve Index to watch movies and this because only it got the function "Background Glow" (Ambilight) which kills 99% of every god rays. Every cent worth

Was abit sceptical with the bad reviews but, it works just the way i wanted it to. Had to download the LAV Codecs which the dev has got pinmed in the discussion page. Its works great, and yes it works great for 3D videos that we all want it for in the first place, if we're on the same wave lenght lol ;)