What is Reddit's opinion of VR Theater for Cardboard?

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The VR Theater for Cardboard is one of the the best apps for Cardboard (Android). You can watch 3D movies, 3d 360° dick in mayonnaise porn, etc. It's best to use an android phone, it has all the best apps.

All the VR theater apps I've seen offer virtual screen size adjustments, but if you want ridiculously large, the free VR Theater for Cardboard is for you. Scroll to near the bottom of the options and you can change the screen distance slider to pretty absurd values. 20% should cover your entire field of view with a 16:9 movie, if that's what you want.

From what I've tried, so far...

Best free https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema&hl

Best paid https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Cmoar.CmoarVirtualCinemaPro&hl

Both can read a microSD card.

I haven't tried go show but cmoar is beautiful. My favorite has been https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema because it is the only one that can play 1080p SBS 3D videos on my phone (Note 3) without framerate issues.

This one?

This is also one of my favourite VR Video players. I had no idea that it allowed loops, just ticked the option in the settings area and tested it. The looping is the same quality as the app the redditor made ITT. Thanks for letting me know!

Tubemate http://tubemate.net/ has an option to stream Youtube videos to an external video player, such as VLC or MX Player. There are several VR video player apps that also support this. This one seems to be the most polished one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema

You need an App.

If you want to play videos from the phone, locally, you can use Cardboard Theater.

If you want to stream web videos use vGet and choose Cardboard Theater as the player.

Try this

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema

And to OP, I just saw that you're on iPhone. Sorry if my suggestions won't work for you, I didn't catch that the first time.

There are many apps to play 3D Side-by-Side videos, my favorite one is Cardboard Cinema (It's free and possibly the best). It just like a normal player, open the file, it'll ask you what kind of file this is select 3D, SBS, and aspect ratio 16:9 for this particular file, and then drop your phone into the VR headset and watch the movie. If the 3D effects feel a little flat/inverted switch the left and right image (there's an option in the virtual environment to do that). There are many more options to tweak if you want, you'll get a hang of it once you use the app.

VR Theater lets you watch videos stored on your phone. Which is great, but my phone only has 32 GB of space, much of which is filled with other stuff. My Plex server on the other hand has 4TB, and the ability to stream video from the web. I generally use the latter feature to watch ad free TV shows from network sites (CBS, NBC, etc.).

I'd like a Plex client which takes an incoming data stream from my Plex server, splits the video, and transposes it onto a Virtual IMAX screen. It's likely that such a project would require a plugin on the server; I doubt my phone is powerful enough to split the incoming video screen. But I haven't even bothered pulling down the Cardboard SDK, much less try to figure out how to hook it up to an incoming data stream through an emulator and do load testing. Obviously the video itself wouldn't be in 3d, but it would still need to be split and made to appear to have been projected onto a 3d screen in a theater.

My favorite is a free one, "VR Theater for Cardboard": https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema

I like it because it's very configurable (and saves your settings), easy to lock the screen, and remembers the last directory you were viewing.

I've got the fancier ones with the elaborate movie theater-looking environments. It's a cool novelty to look around in 'em for a few seconds, but their usability sucks.

Excellent, thank you. What are the limitations of the free version of VR Player compared to the paid one?

I've installed VR Theater but not tried yet. Do you have any experience of that one?

That looks like it's basically something like Cardboard Theater, but functioning as an AR thing to display the playback window in your actual environment, instead of in a virtual theater.

Its not as convenient as Stremio, but you could use VR Theater for Cardboard for playing media in VR, the downside is if you'd need to manually find media to download via bittorrent or similar.

Well, to get any decent (that is: not pixelated) experience you need a phone with at least a 2k or better a 4k display. There aren't many out there. (Sony is currently the only one with 4k?)
Also you have to choose a good VR-headset. There are so many crappy out there.
And then the choice of app - it has to work with your headset (control wise).

And Google discontinued the Cardboard and Google VR Services.

My current (and for me) working set is:

• second hand Sony Xperia 1 (just under 400€)
• Virtoba X6 headset
• VR Theater for Cardboard

But YMMV.

2D movies/videos only at the moment. Tried a 3D video, but haven't done any serious 3D viewing just yet.

This is the app I'm using: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema

You could give VR Theater for Cardboard a try - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema - then you can take any video on your phone and make it work with cardboard.

Wow, didn't realize it was possible. Just found out that VR Theater for Cardboard (Android) supports it as well. Thanks for pointing it out! Link for anyone else on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema

Cardboard Theater allows you to select an aspect ratio and it is free.

Edit: If you're asking specifically about players that have a full interface in VR, then Cardboard Theater doesn't have that, sorry.

Edit 2: Full Dive VR correctly detects and displays the 4:3 and 16:19 videos I have and has a fully VR interface.

FWIW, since some videos are anamorphic (i.e. non-square pixels) correctly setting the aspect ratio isn't as easy as it might seem.

Ooo... Movies and cartoons in bed!😀

Fun!

It, really, is a huge screen on your face. Quite remarkable.

Get this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema&hl and this 64gig Class 10 for $24.99(Target/Best Buy price match Amazon): http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00IVPU7AO/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1433144443&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX200_QL40&keywords=samsung+64gb+micro+sd&dpPl=1&dpID=41UwQltjs%2BL&ref=plSrch and you're good to go!

Cardboard Theater makes for a decent, free alternative to Cmoar, and supports centering the screen. Granted, Cmoar is easily the superior theater, but the alternative is there if you don't want to pay.

Ooo... Movies and cartoons in bed!😀

Fun!

It, really, is a huge screen on your face. Quite remarkable.

Get this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema&hl and this 64gig Class 10 for $24.99(Target/Best Buy price match Amazon): http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00IVPU7AO/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1433144443&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX200_QL40&keywords=samsung+64gb+micro+sd&dpPl=1&dpID=41UwQltjs%2BL&ref=plSrch and you're good to go!

If you don't want to buy GoShow (which I back antovolk up on, that's definitely the best virtual theater), Cardboard Theater provides a pretty good experience for free.

EDIT: That's if you have the file downloaded. FullDive lets you stream it right from Youtube, but there's no virtual theater environment, just black.

There is also VR Theater which is free.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema&hl=en

1. As the image is split into two halves, the resolution is much lower, so it is kind of wasteful to use any 3D viewer for things that aren't 3D. You'd also need something to stream your desktop in a split view, I don't think this exist for Android. Virtual Desktop is an application that allows using the regular Windows desktop within the Oculus Rift, but the main purpose is to allow starting/configuring VR apps from within VR, not using it for desktop work. A better option for sensitive data are privacy screens like MyPrivateDisplay. These are polarizing sheets of plastic, similar to those used in LCDs and some sun glasses. They act as a sort of FoV limiter, so you can only see the image while looking straight at the screen. Someone looking over your shoulder would see only a black screen. A lot of banks use those on computer screens for employees that talk to customers who could take a glance at the screen.
2. I don't really use any virtual cinema apps in HMDs, but a lot of people seem to like Cardboard Cinema, which is free without any run time limits and supports 2D/3D/180°/360° movies. To simply display SBS video, I use MX Player on Android, also free and capable to show videos in any aspect ratio, important to "un-squeeze" many 16:9 SBS videos by playing them at 32:9.

Cardboard Theater supports 180° and 360° files, make sure to set 3D mode to monoscopic.

only Samsung phones can use Samsung VR software.

so u need cardboard,

try this, or just search VR player https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema

I'm using VR Theater for Cardboard.

have you tried cardboard theater? And for non vr VLC? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema

You can get 3D movies from https://www.yify-torrent.org/ or YouTube. For watching movies in 3D with Cardboard, you will need a SBS 3D format to watch with an free app like Cardboard Theater(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema&hl=en) to watch with KMPlayer, MX Player. http://www.multipelife.com/watch-3d-videos-on-google-cardboard.html

Just tried it. Really impressive. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema

I'm using this one. I found it less of a hassle to use.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema

Plastic Google Cardboard and you can lay in bed, watching, Imax style. Plastic ones($8-ish and up on Aliexpress) seem to have the same magnification until you get to the $100 ones. https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleCardboard/

Free: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema&hl

Paid: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema&hl

Nevermind the newer Cardboard version. You can get this: http://m.tinydeal.com/product/diy-google-cardboard-vr-3d-glasses-for-iphone-samsung-cellphone-135220

Or this: http://m.aliexpress.com/item/32318677819.html

DEFINITELY, get this!: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.couchgames.apps.cardboardcinema&hl

Your own, free, personal theater and you can watch movies from a microSD card!