[SKYBOX] Quest v2.0.0 (Preview): Multiplayer Mode, Dolby Vision and Blu-ray ISO

shazam85035

Hello Lucy,
I have a few questions:
Will this update be available on the Apple Vision Pro?
Will there be the ability to watch together without having Facebook?
In the future will the room size increase?

Jenny

shazam85035 Hi there, unfortunately this update will not be available on Apple Vision Pro and we will have to have oculus account logged in to watch movies together with your friends. And we'll increase the room size in the future if it's needed by more users. Thank you for your support!

miketunes

Plex, Emby and Jellyfin servers - can they be either local or remote (if bandwidth is sufficient)?
Will this update be coming to the pcvr version?

Jenny

miketunes Hi there, yes you can connect to remote media servers and we'll update the PCVR version as well.

Lucy

JoeC3
Hello, thank you for your feedback.

Are you using Quest 2 or Quest 3?

To further investigate the issue, we hope you could share with us the "Info" level logs.

Click SKYBOX's "Global Settings", change the "Logging Levels" to "Info".
Reproduce the issue you mentioned, then click the BUG icon in the upper-right corner of Global Settings.
Send us a bug report attached with logs(tick the "upload logs" box). Thank you!

JoeC3

Lucy Hi Lucy, I sent you a bug report. Interestingly, the issue I was having seemed to go away. Did another build come out in the last week?

I sent the bug report because I'm seeing a different issue.
Playing a video with Dolby Digital when playing via DLNA I get full audio support and it plays the DD audio.
Playing a video via Plex and it only shows AAC audio (I'm guessing the plex server is transcoding rather than playing direct?)

xess

It would be great if it can delete folder.

Jenny

JoeC3 Hi there, thank you for your support! Yes, we placed the audio virtually in our VR cinema so that you can enjoy the sound moving around you. Hope you enjoy watching Top Gun!

edllew

Jenny
Hi,
I use the PCVR version for my Oculus Rift. It still runs nicely, but I am hoping for the beta. It doesn't show available at the Oculus store. Is there somewhere else I can get it?
Thanks

brightdrew

hi ,when will 3d iso be supported ,thats very important to us.

maho

Will DVD ISO's be supported because currently it seems like they can't be played at all, as I recall in the past you could watch DVD ISO's if they didn't have a menu but now it always just says 'this video cannot be played.

Also is there a global setting for file display because the default sorting seems weird to me since it's date->descending, I guess that is good if you want the most recent file on top, but what I prefer is Name->ascending and I have to set that for each directory, maybe add a toggle to make what you pick the default!.

Otherwise it's a very nice update.

Lucy

maho
Hello, thank you for your feedback.

We will try to fix the DVD ISO playback issue in the subsequent versions. About the display setting, I will pass your idea to our dev team.

Feel free to contact us if you have other concerns!

edllew

Hi,
I have 2 Quest 2 headsets, both with me as primary user, and one with a secondary account for my wife. I tried the mulitplayer room so we can watch videos together at home, but it says it doesn't allow secondary account users in a room. So I just bought a new second copy of Skybox for my wife's account, and tried to install that on her secondary account, but it still won't allow us to use a room together. Do you have a suggestion for getting this to work? I don't want to change one of my headsets to my wife's primary account. I've been looking forward to this multi-user feature for a long time.
Thanks

Edit: I see that this question has been asked by others on Reddit, no need to reply. The beta is great, still hoping for a multiplayer solution that works for my needs.

Chiefmas

I'm very impressed with the preview! I have some questions after trying the multi-user mode several times with people.

When the playback source is a streaming server(Plex/Emby/Jellyfin), is the stream somehow being played directly from the server to the other people in the room, or is Skybox re-broadcasting it to the other clients? I'm trying to figure out how much bandwidth the "host" instance of Skybox needs to have- it's significantly more if the stream is being re-broadcast from Skybox. I am guessing it's not, since the other users don't have to login to the server. If that wasn't the case, that would mean the session or pw is being shared with the other clients? That would have security implications.

Related to that, with multi-player, is there an advantage then for playback via SMB/DLNA/AirScreen? So it the clients are all on the same local network, will they have their own stream directly from the source (SMB/DLNA/AirScreen) or will that be re-streamed through the headset(assuming that is what is happening)?

And same question for WebDAV?

Maybe I asked it wrong, I'm trying to understand if there is a way for each person in multiplayer to establish their stream independently, if it's not already, which I don't think it is?

Great start for sure though!
Thanks!