Bigscreen, the social VR display screen sharing platform, is spectacularly good at letting customers maintain communal watch events devoted to something they’ll present on a PC’s display screen, Quest customers included. However now the studio is launching a paid cloud-streaming service that goals to make it even simpler for Quest customers trying to get away from their PC solely.
Bigscreen already gives a distant desktop consumer for Quest, which lets you cue up content material in your PC for playback within the Quest-native app. It’s a extremely helpful manner of sharing your display screen with out technically needing a beefy, VR-capable PC, as virtually any PC will do, even Intel CPUs with built-in graphics which assist Fast Sync Video.
Now the studio is rolling out what it calls its ‘Cloud Browser’, a paid service that permits you to host rooms and stream content material without having a PC in any respect.
Whereas DRM restrictions technically black out providers like Netflix and Disney+ on Bigscreen’s new Cloud Brower, it does enable Quest customers to stream motion pictures from much less litigious providers, resembling Plex, Dropbox, and Vimeo.
And because the title implies, it additionally lets you browse the net for something value chatting over, resembling web sites and web-based video games.
As a paid service, Bigscreen’s Cloud Browser comes with a free two-hour trial; day passes are priced at $1.99 for twenty-four hours of entry, and a month-to-month go are priced at $9.99 for 30 days of entry. You may be taught extra over on the Bigscreen web site.
