Plevr Reviews

This application seems to be in early alpha testing and shouldn't cost money at the moment. The sound doesn't work when a movie is open. Plex cloud doesn't show up at all. Can only see movies or tv shows that are on deck and if you have any other libraries that you would like to view too bad. This sounded like a great companion with plex but stick with big screen and you will enjoy that much more.

I wanted to like Plevr, but it is definitely an alpha level piece of software right now. It should not be paid for at the moment because it may not even work for you, and if it does, theres a decent likelihood it will be fraught with issues. AKA youre paying to be an alpha tester. For me, the software is completely inoperable beyond changing environments and moving the screen. I cant openany menus, my top/menu button just starts defaulting to a really annoying and loud volume function. Sometimes this game causes the compositor to crash. Sometimes when I click the window on desktop, the headset crashes. I don't understand why this isn't early access. BUYER BEWARE

It's fun to have an interactive program to use with Plex, I've been full on the Plex train for a while... Plus the making it easy to get youtube vids to VR is pretty nice! Definitely looking forward to the 360 video support and curious to see what the "So much more..." will be. I'd recommend this because it's a unique experience and it makes for a cool thing to show off!

I enjoy this software. The 3D movie player works wonderfully as long as the files contain -sbs or -ou according to the 3D movie format. My only critique is that I wish I could look through my libraries the way I have them organized in Plex. I would recommend this product if you're looking to watch plex movies in VR.

This software doesn't appear to work anymore. My guess is that the software dev is dead and Plex continued on. Ideas?

Along way to go but a great concept, this software is pretty fresh so I'll stick around for a bit while the kinks are ironed out. the library doesnt always load correctly, the interface of choosing a tvshow is pretty bad and is spilt up by episode not show, so you end up with a list 2 miles long(if you hoard shows like myself). Interface isnt very intuitive and sometimes ignores input (accidently touching something will reset your view in the section you are looking at causing you to have to pull through an entire long list again). The dev from what I've seen has been active in the community so I have hopes for where this product might go.

The program is not a new idea, except for the fact that it is made with Plex directly in mind. There are a few issues that can restrict what shows and plays on a particular server when Plex will work just fine on any other platform. Definitely a huge pain in the ***. Besides the inability to see all of the content, the simulation that you exist in is barebone. You can change to a couple locations or exist in a black world and you can alter the screen size and location. The enironments themselves feel very, very fake. Over a decade ago I was learning C++ and generated an entire prestine city out of code. It was beautiful, but too perfect and it looked.. well.. generated. That is the only way I can describe the aesthetics. As for controlling everything.. the author really felt touch was the way to go. Remember, this is a "I'm going to sit back in a Lazy Boy and watch a movie" program but for some reason a controller wasn't thought up. To add to the sitting down should be the focus problems, if you are sitting and line up the black "VR Lazy Boy" to your Lazy Boy perfectly you can accidently change the environment with your hands in a resting state on the arm rests. It was really, really annoying to try to figure what madness was happening the first time I wanted to watch something. On top of all of that no one has reviewed this game for well over a month, and the developer is nowhere to be seen. I would HIGHLY DISCOURAGE buying this title until some serious work is done. I got it for 20% off the $9.99 price and still asked for a refund.

Still does not work. Didn't know I tried to use one before and still unable to log into my plex account as a quick read in the post show others with same issue

Update July 2019: I am shocked to find that this thing is still for sale. Shame on the developer for continuing to accept money for unfinished software that they abandoned years ago. Last word was a promise for an update “next week” in March 2017. Shame. Update: The developer appears to have abandoned this project. It remains prototype quality and is only really useful as a novelty. Save your money and use the free and excellent Bigscreen beta with the free desktop Plex app instead. Original review: This is pretty neat proof of concept, but it has basic interface issues and bugs that prevent it from being suitable for routine use. The biggest problem for me is that Plevr doesn't display all of my Plex libraries. It seems to have arbitrarily chosen two random libraries. Plevr doesn't offer any configuration options, so there is apparently no way to correct this. Also absent are all of the Plex channels that I have installed. The other major showstopper for me is the lack of grouping for television shows. In your TV library, Plevr renders a box for *every single episode*, side by side. If I want to choose a Westworld episode, I have to scroll through 5000 episodes of other shows until I reach the Ws. This looks super nifty, but it's stupidly impractical. There is a voice search feature that might mitigate this, but I can't get it to recognize what I'm saying. I hope Plevr improves because I'd love a practical VR Plex interface. The current release is really just a prototype. Maybe it should have been released as Early Access.

Should have read the reviews before buying... Like everyone else has said, this should be considered an Early Access title. The fact that it isn't labeled as such is very decieving. It's alpha software. It's a proof of concept that ultimately is not a practical solution for movie viewing in VR. There are much better options. The next update has been coming "next week" as of mid-March. If this hasn't been abandoned, then the developer needs to step up and talk about what's to come. Right now, it just feels like a waste of money. I'll be refunding.