Bigscreen Beta Reviews

Now that you can stream audio this is just about the best place to share screens and be able to share content between friends that live distances away with VR. Very immersive and quite interesting for what it is. Just wish the Vive's glasses were higher resolution and all my friends had one! :-)

A great social experience for friends in VR, and even with strangers. You've heard all that before. I used it for escapism, and it worked wonders. Binging a show on Netflix, except instead of my measly dorm room, I'm now in an extravagant loft, laying on a couch. Instead of laying on a bed, head turned to the side, to watch off a monitor a few feet away, I was laying on my back, head nestled into my pillows, as I kicked back and had a massive screen right where I look. The devs are great and will help you with anything you may need, and lots of features and improvements are always in the works. For the low low price of free, why not give it a go?

This is one of the coolest experiences I have ever had in my life. The best wasy to describe it is that it is like having a LAN party with your friends, even though they are at their house. Downloaded this only to watch movies on my rift, but when I discovered the multiplayer rooms, my mind was blown. You literally are teleported to a room with other people and you can play games together, watch movies together, or just hang out. It is a free program, give it a shot!

You are looking for a good game where you can use your desktop in virtual reality ? Stop searching, Bigscreens will perfectly do the job. Here is a list of cool features in the game. [list] [*] 0 Bug, 0 Performances issues [*] Multiplayer mode [*] Awesome community [*] Frequent updates [*] UI well polished [*] Ux as well [*] You won't feel like you are running on Beta [/list] In Bigscreens, the most cool stuff to do is to play alone to watch movies or documentary on your own theater sized screen and actually in your own theater. Meeting people who love virtual reality and who will try to speak with you if you have a minimum english speaking level, and sharing awesome contents eachothers. Just stop reading reviews and buy it, you won't regret. If developers are reading this, it'd be awesome to make us able to moove in environements and not just sitting. And thanks a lot for your work.

To be Honest, I consider this a Must have for any VR HMD. You will fine regulars who has a theme room going on every day or weekly basis. If your always watching / streaming shows online - Might as well do it here or Virtual Desktop. Come find me every first Saturday of month as I host a Rocky Horror Picture Show, Audience Participation!

Bigscreen does a stunning job of providing you with a friendly environment that you can share with both friends and strangers. I entered a room to watch John Wick, ran into an issue where my headset went black (twice) but I will not fault something classed as beta, what it does it does very well. Being able to project your entire monitor onto a large wall so that each user can watch and listen at the same time is so basic yet so brilliant, it's the kind of VR experience we have all wanted and it's shaping up to be more than just a fun little tool to mess around in. When VR becomes more maintsream I can see software like this becoming the norm and communication being redefined completely. If you haven't tried it already, please do. It really does a great job of displaying your desktop nicely.

Bigscreen is a VR desktop and chatroom but the stand out feature is multiplayer screen sharing in VR. Singleplayer it is a solid virtual desktop with a good UI. In multiplayer each user can stream their desktop in the room as if each person had their own monitor. It is a very cool sensation to sit "side by side" with friends in the VR room and play a game online together, though the framerates will vary. I used the Vive with a GTX 970 I was able to get ~20-30 FPS with Rocket League, and when watching the game on my friends' screens I got ~2 FPS. On a more gracefully streaming game, Tricky Towers, my friends mentioned they got around 10-15 FPS when watching my screen. There are a few steam settings that need to be changed to run games without closing Bigscreen, and some games will need to be in Borderless Window. The tech is very impressive but I would have liked a bit more focus on privacy. Once a room is joined, the default setting is to immediately start streaming your desktop. Also, the Vive microphone was active by default. There didn't appear to be an easy way to mute that didn't involving aiming a laser pointer at a virtual screen. Regardless of these issues, it is an excellent VR desktop and chatroom with a good UI. The environments look good and have a couple of different orientations, such as a couch and TV or a bed with the screen projected on the ceiling. Absolutely worth giving it a try.

Most folks in Bigscreen are fairly cerebral and friendly. Met some Brits and a guy from Washington and we had a four man, guitar, jam session around a campfire. It is limited to four folks per room which is nice in that you have more control over your company. You can watch movies and listen to music and trouble shoot VR tech issues. Pretty great stuff!

I watched a movie with someone in Virginia, someone in Dallas, and someone in Seattle while sitting on my couch in Southern California. Truely amazing use of this tech.

This is one of my favorite uses for VR. I've spent entire evenings in this "apartment," watching Netflix, doing stuff for work and hanging out with other people watching YouTube. One time, I fell asleep watching a movie and woke up a bit confused because I was still in my beautiful fake apartment. I demo the Vive to a lot of people, and everyone has a different app/game that really gets them as "The Thing" that makes VR magic to them. I'd say this app 'gets' probably 1 out of 5 people as the jaw-dropping thing that they love. (And that's strong, because the rest of the 4/5 is split across probably 10 other cool things). When VR glasses get smaller and wireless, I'm probably going to live in this apartment about as much as I do my own. Don't judge me.