Hi friends,

We are SKYBOX STUDIO, developer of the SKYBOX VR Video Player.

Firstly we want to say sorry about our negligence upon the release of Quest 2.
2020 was difficult for us: less money, less staff, no DevKits, nearly non development progress.
Yet we survived and now we are trying very hard to speed up the development to support more features in 2021.

Latest changes

1. SKYBOX Cross Buy among Quest and Rift version offered starting from Feb. 19th 2021 (finally Oculus approved)
2. Users who paid for Go/Gear SKYBOX version please contact us to get free access to Quest version (also plz help us spread the word).
3. SKYBOX Quest version will be priced at $9.99 starting from Feb. 19th 2021

Quest Version 1.0.2

We just released v1.0.2 and it comes to our attention that users cannot use anonymous account to access an SMB share.
We are working on a fix now.
If you encounter such issue, please reach us at contact@skybox.xyz to join the beta testing channel to test the fix version.

Roadmap for 2021 Q1:

1. SMBv3 support (Released in v1.0.2)
2. Manually input IP address to search SMB server (Released in v1.0.2)
3. Hand Tracking Support on Quest 1 & 2
4. 90Hz support on Quest 2
5. Hardware decoding for high-resolution videos on Rift & Steam version (Looking for beta testers now)

On the other hand, you may find that the response to emails/posts is a bit slow now.
That is because that there is only one me and many of you (which I'm very grateful).
I'll be sure to response to you as soon as possible and I really appreciate your patience.

We are hoping to get more people to work on the project and things would become smoother once we have more people.

Thank you for bearing with us and we promise to make SKYBOX better and better for you to enjoy

Cheers,
Yum

Yum 90Hz support on Quest 2

Hi. Hopefully the 90Hz support on Quest 2 will still allow 72Hz?

The reason I ask is that when comparing the SKYBOX playback of 23.976 / 24fps movies on my Quest 2 at 72Hz, versus my higher resolution Reverb G2 (which is fixed at 90Hz), the motion does appear smoother and more pleasing on the Quest 2.

I assume this is because 72Hz is a nice 3x multiple of the 24fps movie rate (no dropped frames), whereas 90Hz intrudes some motion artifacts due to it's 3.75 multiple display refresh.

So, does "90Hz support" also mean you will be adding a 72Hz setting option (like your existing 60Hz setting), or, will SKYBOX be smart enough to switch to 72Hz when playing back 23.796 / 24fps video content?

Thanks in advance for clarifying this point. I'd hate to loose the 72Hz movie playback motion smoothness. Equally, I'd prefer not to have yet another manual setting that I need to do, each time a I watch a movie (like the Aspect Ratio override I currently need to do for 3D Full SBS movies). All the best for 2021, and keep up the great work.

So glad to be informed of the upcoming roadmap, and I am also very looking forward to the feature to support HDR 10bit video playback. Thanks for your greak work.

Thank you for the update. Also, would LOVE to see support for "movie chapter" selection. The ability to select movie chapters (saved timecode markers in the MP4 file) during playback would be fantastic!!!

Selas

I'm sorry for the late reply.
Would you please share with us the file at contact@skybox.xyz so we could test it on our side?
Also are you using Rift version or Steam version please?

Cheers,
Yum

Human

We already released a beta version with this feature.
Would you be interested in testing it first and see if it works for you?
If yes, then please reach us at contact@skybox.xyz

Cheers,
Yum

Do you have any update for the Steam version? I feel like it is getting more relevant since Airlink is released, and it is still version 1.0.1. Thanks in advance!