Will there ever be 'multiplayer'?

jmel

Similar to some other apps like youtube vr, the ability to watch a video with a remote user?

Yum

Not now but maybe sometime around 2019Q2 we will develop a feature like "multiplayer mode".
Right now we focus on developing features like AB loop/Curved Scree online.

Best,
Yum

Xanatos

Yum I am dying for multiplayer with skybox to watch movies with friends. Now that the oculus quest is portable and affordable I think we’ll see way more of the masses participating in vr. Right now Only bigscreen has semi-decent multi user Movie watching and for some reason bigscreen but skybox seems like a much more streamlined and polished experience for quick movie night with friends.

Yum

Xanatos

I would second for your feedback but unfortunately we don't have spare engineers to develop the "multiplayer" mode right now.
We are busy with developing a solution to support playback up to ~8k right now.
After this feature, I will raise the "multiplayer mode" to the first priority (if accepted by others).
Thank you very much for your understanding.

Cheers.

thibaultmol

I can't wait for multiplayer! I'll be a huge advantage over Bigscreen which forces you to be limited to 1080p or other 16:9 aspect ratio's. And literally just captures your desktop instead of actually streaming the video file itself.
(and on their Quest version (because it's a port of their go version) literally just uses badly compressed mono audio it seems. So there is no positional audio, which is very confusing in VR. And the audio is so badly compressed that when there is any kind of music, it's a pain to listen to)

Yum

thibaultmol

I would say that BigScreen is a more "social" app rather than a "video player" app.
As previously stated, we will probably develop such feature after the 8k playback solution.

Thank you for your patience.

thibaultmol

Yum while true, I think there is a point to be made that video simply doesn't look good in bigscreen. even if you have everything beyond the recommended spec. It's still just a desktop capture of a video player.
It's definitely noticeable when streaming 3d movies. Because as you can imagine, the stream encoding artifacts aren't the same on both sides of the video. So the 3d isn't as good as it should be it the file was actually streamed.
I realized it yesterday when I wanted to watch a 3D movie with a friend that I honestly was like "Bigscreen doesn't do this movie justice' and so was kinda dissapointed that skybox couldn't do multiplayer yet.
But I totally understand that you want to focus on 8K first.
If multiplayer is the feature planned after 8K then that's perfect and I can't wait. I can honestly see this taking off big time for you guys. Another thing is that bigscreen is actually limited to 12 people (which requires a properhome connection as well and a proper cpu). While with skybox you could just have the file hosted in the cloud somewhere.
Which could make for giant room streaming

BigBryanBear

8K is not more important than multiplayer to watch with friends. Skybox priorities are screwed up. Most people can't tell the difference between 2K and 4K now, and who uses 8K? It will only slow down connection more and require a newer fastest computer to stream to. Boggles my mind that Skybox staff don't see the logic.

SlashDragon

I really want multiplayer to view with friends! I try bigscreen but quality isn’t as great and hoops to jump around to do it. Please make this a priority