Bigscreen Beta

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.

Windows 8.1 or 10 is "required". http://i.imgur.com/wPhGFk3.png

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.

Works great. Playing games is much smoother using this than the built in SteamVR theatre. Please add ability to watch 360 videos and photos!

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!

Being able to have a virtual LAN Party with friends in nice, since you can do it anytime you want.

How do I remove my secound monitor from showing up? The program is unusable with a screen just floting in mid air...

i do not look at as much as a game but more of awesome application and should be givin the option to run it in place of big picture

I just tried out the multiple monitor support. This is the feature I've been wanting, and its great. This is my favorite vr desktop app. It is fairly easy to position the monitors so you don't notice the screen door effect so it doesn't hurt your eyes as much. I really hope that the next generation of headsets have high enough resolution so you can use them all day. I would like to be able to rotate the monitors, Having to add lots of space between the monitors just to account for the spherical nature of how they attach to your center point is kind of annoying. In the future it would be nice to have virtual monitors. For example I may only have one physicall monitor and a headset connected to my computer. But inside Bigscreen I could create 2+ virtual monitors(Install drivers so the os thinks it has two additional monitors. Look into the Air Display ios app). I use 4 monitors at work currently, and I dream of the day where I can have as many monitors as I want using a vr headset.

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. Al...