VR Shop Score – Gold Award
System: Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift & Windows MR
Price at Time Of Review: Free
Comfort Rating: Green
Genre: Tool/App
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers, Keyboard & Mouse
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: Yes
Age Rating: PG
Description: Bigscreen lets you use your PC desktop in VR. Watch movies with friends in a virtual movie theatre. Play your favourite PC video games on a huge screen. Hangout in social VR chat rooms. Participate in weekly 3D Movie Nights, VR LAN parties, and other events.
For me, it’s best use is having a big screen to work on, play games on, or to watch films on. Then being able to share all that with VR friends is an odd experience. Trying to explain what exactly this app does is like trying to describe how an alien spacecraft works. In these early days people are using it for various things, but as time goes on other people are using it to do even more amazing things. It started off as a VR LAN party app, but these days…WOW! It’s like the crazy world of VR we were told about in all those odd sci-fi films. The biggest problem I found with this app is that my VR apartment was much better than my real one so whenever I took it off, I found myself wanting to put it on straight afterwards. Oddly I am even typing this review inside of the app!
What is most surprising about this app is the amazing things people use it for. From fixing mates PC’s to networking on new games or getting in-game help, it’s like the future of networking. What scares me most about this app is that it makes it easier not to take your headset off, you could literally work all day inside of it, losing touch with reality. But you shouldn’t see that as a bad thing, this is the things we always dreamed of doing in VR and now that they are here we shouldn’t be scared of them. Download it, embrace it and discover why so many of us VR fans have been banging on about how VR will take over all our lives.
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