Viveport Video

Before update, It had its flaws but was better than most paid programs. now after "update" its just useless trash that is getting Uninstalled

Now it requires an account. Don't bother.

[h1]Used On: [b]HTC Vive[/b][/h1] First and foremost, Vive Video works on both the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift. It also does not have the capability of YouTube, Netflix, or any other content that is not directly downloaded to your computer. There is no web browser, either. It's free, and as far as free software goes it gets the job done. You're able to watch videos in a flat format, side-by-side, or over-under in either 180° or 360°. The interface is a little confusing and hard to get used to at first, but once you take the time to play around with the settings it's not so bad. You can also turn the "lights off" to watch your content without any borders, and you can play around with the movie screen size (if you're watching in flat-view, of course) to where it's either super small, or it takes up your entire field of vision. At its core, Vive Video is a fine, free movie viewing software. It's extremely basic, but it gets the job done. Of course, paid software such as OVRDrop bring in a variety of new options, including the ability to watch YouTube, Netflix, and interact with your favorite desktop applications inside VR. However, content like that comes with pricetags around the spectrum of $16.99 CAD. If you save most of your content to your SSD/HDD/EHDD, then Vive Video will suit you just fine. [h1]Rating: [b]4.0/5.0[/b] - Excellent, highly worth using.[/h1] The VR Network [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33182845-The-VR-Network/]Curator[/url] | [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/thevrnetwork]Group[/url] Click for More

Alright, I have some complaints, but none of them are bout the software itself, and so I will go over them at the end. To start with, This program is great, if simple. If it's a video file, you can watch it, and it will work. It will simulate a flat screen or a curved one, and you can have stereo 3D, or flat image on a flat, cuved, 180, or 360 display. There is a lights off button that turns off all of the graphics around the display, so you just see that, for flat or curved veiwing the display can be resized. The reverb effect that was annoying at first can be turned off readily in settings. There is a volume slider, so you can control volume seperately from the system volume you need to go to most of the time. There are quick controls on the controler, so you can control volume, and skip forwards and backwards without needing to point. In general the interface is fairly intuitive. Really, it is perfect. Now onto those complaints that don't have anything to do with the software itself. This should have been released when the Vive came out. It is in fact such basic funtionality, that you shouldn't need to download it off of steam or viveport, it should be included in the dashboard like desktop veiw, and it should have been from the very start, not a whole year after the Vive came out. While this plays a wide variety of video file formats, there is no getting around the fact that this is not how most people store their media, most people either have a bluray/DVD collection, or they watch streaming media such as hulu, netflix, or amazon. Obviously that only really applies to traditional movies and TV shows, but this is actualy an interesting way to watch those, but in our DRM laden world, that can be pretty chalenging for people who do not pirate things, or obsesively back up some large portion of there bluray/DVD colelction to their hard drives (yay me on that second one I guess). This obviously isn't HTCs fault in this case, and there isn't really even anything they can do about it, but it's still a problem.

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imagine taking a free, slightly above average for *free* software, and trying to charge a subscription fee. viveport video in one sentence

it's not free! only 14 days trail