Plex VR for Daydream Makes Your Media Library Consumable in Virtual Reality
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Plex VR for Daydream Makes Your Media Library Consumable in Virtual Reality

Plex users, ready your VR headsets. The company launched Plex VR this morning, a standalone Android application made specifically for Google’s Daydream VR platform.

With the app, you’ll be able to watch all of your Plex content in virtual reality, whether it be movies you have stored, television shows, or anything else. To help set the mood, Plex has created various scenes you can watch your videos in. To start, there is a luxury studio apartment, complete with powered shades whenever a show is started. There’s also a drive-in theater scene complete with classic car and working horn you can honk when clicking on it, as well as a Void scene that has you floating in space among the stars.

While having a VR app to watch all of your Plex content is already pretty special, there’s another element that brings this app to new heights and helps separate it from anything else available. For those of you with a Plex Pass, you’ll be able to watch things with your Plex-using friends/partners inside of the same scene. Essentially, you’ll be given your own VR screening room, with up to 4 people able to watch shows together, as well as interact with the scenes. Each user inside the room will have a customizable avatar, with the Daydream system tracking head movements so everyone can see what people are looking at. I caught a demo of this from the Plex team earlier this week and it looks quite fun.

Plex VR is a standalone application, downloadable right now from Google Play. It’s free to all Plex users, though, you will need a Plex Pass to watch content with your friends. However, Plex is offering this feature free of charge for the first week, so go have some fun.

And make sure to honk the car’s horn when you’re sitting behind the wheel at the drive-in theater.

Plex VR: Website Link | Google Play Link

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Stumbling upon Droid Life randomly after purchasing a Motorola DROID in late 2009, then setting out to learn everything he could about Android, Tim quickly became an integral part of the site's comment section. After quite some time of strictly commenting on Droid Life, Tim was offered an opportunity to write feature stories for the site, such as custom ROM overviews, as well as interviews with Android community members. Following success of those, Tim became a full time writer and editor for Droid Life, now spending his time on news articles, device reviews, producing videos, and much more. Tim currently resides in Portland, OR with his longtime girlfriend and two wonderful dog children (Loki & Thor). In his spare time, Tim enjoys playing guitar, drinking coffee, practicing photography, and destroying kids on Call of Duty.

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  • My synced content does not show in the app. Only videos I personally have stored on my phone. Hmmm.

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  • so wait, does this only work with Daydream? I can’t just install the plex vr app and put my phone in my Star wars google cardboard viewer?

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