Now you can watch Plex in virtual reality with Google Daydream

Now you can watch Plex in virtual reality with Google Daydream

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https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/1/24/16927136/plex-vr-google-daydream-now-available-features

Plex, the hugely popular media streaming app, is adding support for Google’s Daydream VR today. With a Daydream-compatible Android smartphone and the requisite headset, you’ll be able to watch movies or TV shows from any media server linked to your Plex account in virtual reality. Plex has several interactive viewing environments you can choose from, ranging from a luxurious loft apartment to a drive-in movie theater. Once you start playing something, that content will take up “a large percentage of your visual field.”

Plopping a giant movie screen into the VR world is by no means innovative, but there’s also a big social component to Plex’s new VR push. You can invite up to three other friends to co-watch along with you. Each person has their own avatar, and you can voice chat with others by clicking the button on your Daydream remote. Co-watching requires a Plex Pass, but everyone will get to try it for free during their first week of using Plex VR. The core function of watching in VR is free for all users. (The drive-in scene is also exclusive to Plex Pass customers.)