I just found this awesome new virtual movie theater demo. I'm not the developer, but he's already made the demo available on his site, though its all in Korean! I don't speak/read Korean, so I used Google translate to read the docs. Here's links to his site and demo:
From what I gather, the only way to play a file is if it's an .avi file called 'movie' placed in the same folder as the app. Obviously this is rather limiting, but hopefully he's working on a fix. Right-click brings up a menu where u can pick any seat in the theater, as well as choose to play 2D or 3D (SBS) content! Works really well, and the theater looks great. He's even got the light coming from the projector if u turn around. 360 controller moves u around, but doesn't seem to bring up the menu or ability to sit down.
Looks like he's also working on a (free!) horror game called "Nine Stones". Haven't seen either of these mentioned in these threads so I thought I'd share my findings. Enjoy!
I actually downloaded this earlier today, dont have my rift yet but i'm super stoked to be watching all my movies on a HUGE screen when my rift arrives in the next week or two 😛
The quality of the cinema itself is great. It really feels like being in one. I couldn't be happier with the first VR Cinema!
It runs no codecs so expect videos requiring them to have no video or audio or both. I can read Korean and it says in the guide that 3D videos are possible too so long as they work in side-by-side.
At the end of the readme, he says that the UI for selecting what file to load isn't supported yet so for the meantime, we have to name videos "movie". As of now, it only supports .avi.
- LeonBrazil You can't just rename an mkv file to avi, you'd have to actually convert it. All avi files I played had working sound, so I'm not sure what your problem is there.
- wavefunction84 Thanks for the help in translation. I got in touch with the dev in Korea so hopefully he'll stop by here and keep us updated.
Hi. I am that guy who made this app. Thank you all for your responses. I don't speak English very well. so I can't give you many imformation about app. Soon, I will make english manual with the help of others. I think you guys already know how to use. I am working next version.
- To support next movie files(wmv, mkv, mp4) - The file browser to find movie files in app. - Some option to dim the lights.
I think it will take two weeks. Please expect the next update. 🙂