Cmoar VR Cinema

It was a cool idea. Then the Dev jumped ship to Racket Fury:Table Tennis VR, wherin they continue their tradition of promising and not delivering. The Dev has, according to their post history, last posted in the discussions of this offering back in April. Last update was in January. Absolutely DO NOT get this and expect it to be improved, ignore any features 'promised' either in the description or discussions. Plex support uses a hardcoded directory on C:\, so if you installed it anywhere else, it doesn't work. Youtube support also appears to be very limited. Pros: It works on Windows 7, and I was able to binge watch 2 seasons of Rick and Morty. Cons: It's dead, Jim. Dont' support devs that don't support their software.

One word. Awesome. I had the oportunity to beta test this program a couple of days ago and was very impressed with the potential. There were a few things that needed to be addressed to make it really great and I reported those suggestions to the devs. the final version has now been released and every suggestion that I thought of has been completely addressed in this released version. I am more than impressed with the quick development response from the devs. I am using an HTC Vive. The provided environments are very good. There is a movie theater, a home cinema, a boat view and a void environment. The movie theater is my favorite and it really makes me feel like I am in a theater. There a 3 different seat positions to choose from depending on whether you want to be in the front of the theater, the middle or in the back. I always like to sit towards the back when I go to the real theater and the back position in the virtual cinema felt like a perfect distance for me. The light from the movie screen reflects back into the theater in a very convincing fashion. The video playback quality is excellent, especially when you play back a quality source. I was able to easily browse to the videos located on my computer as well as access them through the integrated plex functionality in the program. I have a lot of media on my computer and the interface to access them was very responsive and intuitive. I also was also able to play some 360 degree videos from my computer. I have tried several virtual cinema programs on the Vive (cineveo, virtual desktop, big screen) and this is by far the best experience that I have had. I will definitely be spending my virtual movie watching time in the Cmoar VR cinema.

Holy smoke, this IS THE BEST movie app I ever used, period!!! And I used many of them...I tried BigScreen, Simple VR Player, Whirligig, Cineveo, Oculus Cinema. This is BAR NONE, the best movie app for VIVE!! Why? Because I said so!! Here's the thing, Oculus Cinema is good but Cmoar takes it further and allow you to change the seat, that's HUGE. You get 4 different environments (and i hope there are more). You get a Home Theater, Movie Theater (biggest one), the VOID and an environment where you sit on a boat. You can change the seat up to 3 positions in two of the four environments. I always choose the closest seat. The thing that makes it great is the UI and the ease of use. FINALLY someone listen and show videos in thumbnails!! None of the video apps i used before show videos in thumbnails (with the exception of Oculus Cinema), they simply display them in file names and that's not appealing to me. This app allow you to scroll through the videos with the trackpad and change to different menus with a click of a button making it very user friendly. This is exactly what I wanted and how to integrate the UI into a movie app. I like how you can "favorite" your videos. I think this is a GREAT feature because you don't have to go around and looking for the videos that you want to watch, everything you want is stored in the "favorite." You can even "favorite" Youtube videos. Here's the positives so far: 1. Home Theater - Nice realistic environment up close look very details. I prefer this over Oculus Home Theater because this is a little closer to the screen. 2. Movie Theater - Better than Oculus Cinema because again, you can change seat and i feel you can get closer. The environment is darker and lighting is nice. 3. Boat Theater - This is the least of my favorite I think because I can't get close enough...I want to get closer. The water doesn't seem as real? I wish it cast reflections like Cineveo? Water should be clear (not too blue) giving it a sense of depth. I like to see what's below the water. 4. Void Theater - Nice size and you can resize it but it's a bit tricky, it needs to fine-tune. But it is as good as any Void theater. 5. I was able to supersampling at 2.5 with no problem...no slow down and stuttering in any of the environments...this is amazing with 980ti. Like any app, there is always the shortcomings and here's something it needs to improve: 1. Movie Theater - I feel like I want to get EVEN closer, I want the size to be miximized like the maximum size of the VOID theater. I haven't seen a theater that does this....it doesn't bother me because if i can watch the VOID in max size with no problem, i should be able to do the same on the big Movie Theater environment. 2. I feel all the movies are a bit dark, there should be an option for brightness, contrast, ect. adjustments. 3. I feel like the Vive's left trackpad should be used for changing seats...pressing up to move up and down to move down will make thing easier. I also feel that the right trackpad should be used to bring up the movie time status and with the left and right to skip forward and backward. 4. Add volume and supersampling option would be cool. 5. Add the ability to remember your folder or maybe "favorite folder"? 6. Add a nomirror option. 7. Add Netflix and Amazon videos (I know no video apps can pull this off). 8. Use your Vive's cam as a webcam to view what's outside? Like they did in Cineveo?

This is by far the best Cinema viewer out there. It is incredibly easy to use, easy to find your films and everything just works. You can reset your seat and it gives a countdown so that you can get into position - it's the little things like this that make it so user-friendly. The quality of the player is superb too - no juddering etc and it looks much better on the screen than the rest of the other players I've bought. Also, the Vive's len's seem to reflect light ( due to the staggered lens I suspect) and this app minimises that effect, so much so that it's pretty comfortable watching a full film on this. I'm so glad this was released...a big thumbs up from me! :) EDIT: I would love to see a super-sampling option in the future, along with multiplayer support of some kind. Watching a movie with a friend would be awesome!

No DVD or Blu ray play back. youtube is restricted so much that you can only watch movie trailers but no music videos etc. nice design but a complete waste of time and money. You will be let down if you buy it, trust me. Look elsewhere!

ANY PLANS FOR YOUTUBE TO BE FIXED??????? Youtube NEVER loads and apparently hasnt since early 2019. I went through multiple forums and appears you have never had it working... Please fix this as I only got it to watch youtube.

Really a great virtual theater. I've used a few and this is instantly my favorite. Just to be clear since I wasn't, it does support MKV files, the 3D movie stuff is the best solution I've seen so far - so if you got a 3D side-by-side or up-down 3D file, it works with both, very simple - when you select the file you just choose how to watch it. The lighting is good, the quaility of the theater is excellent, the boat and home cinema are also nice but I'd never use it as the theater is dead on and the great choice for movies - maybe TV shows work better in others. For $10 get it - you'll use it a lot more than you think you will. A+. Couple more notes based on other feedback I've seen.... I'm using a Oculus Rift no issues there. Personally I really like this better than something like Big Screen or Virtual Desktop as I just like the big theater more. While SBS 3D works perfectly for me, the top/bottom 3D (can't remember the name) is so so. Someone said they weren't getting surround sound, for me in the files I've tested I have - I believe this just looks at your Windows codecs, so if something doesn't work go grab the latest k-lite pack and that will probably fix it, BUT I'm not 100% on that. Big Screen Beta is free for now and certainly worth also checking out, it has a lot more features, but to my eye they way over do it on lighting and it's distracting - in this one the big theater is perfect with just the right amount of lighting boncing off the walls from the screen, its just crazy immersive, at least for me.

5 out of 5 stars. The BEST VR Theater experience out there for the Vive. Here's what I'd love to see in a future version: - Would be AMAZING to make the Theater a social experience, where we could invite people into the theater and watch movies together (via Netflix) or Plex. - Netflix support. - Ability to switch to any seat in the theater. - Model avatars that can turn their head based on the users VR headset movement. Creepy, but cool! - bots that walk in/out of the theater before/during/after you're watching a show. This can be turned on/off at any time. - lights dim out before film begins.

Unable to load any local or Youtube videos and looking at posts the problem is generalised. This app should be removed as it is not working and has not for a while. It is not being maintained.

Works for the most part, allows you to search on youtube but when you select a video it just says "loading", like FOREVER and nothing loads. I purchased for the youtube feature so it was a waste of money since that part of the app doesn't work.