YouTube expands its VR app to Samsung's Gear VR device and lets you watch videos with strangers
YouTube is expanding its virtual reality app to support Samsung's Gear VR devices, and it's also adding a new feature that lets users watch a video together and chat. If you own a Gear VR device, you'll be able to download the app from the Oculus Store beginning this week, Google announced today in a blog post.
YouTube has been conspicuously absent from the Oculus Store, and it's been a significant selling point for Google's Daydream VR platform, although it's also available on PlayStation VR headsets, and Oculus Rift or HTC Vive users can access it through SteamVR. You could access YouTube through the Gear VR's web browser, but this update still closes a notable gap in the Gear VR's video ecosystem. YouTube doesn't mention supporting Oculus' new mobile device, the standalone Oculus Go.
Users can now also party up with friends or strangers to watch and chat about videos together in a VR space. In the example YouTube gave, users can ride a virtual car together or watch other VR videos. To access the feature, tap the Watch Together icon located under the play controls on your Daydream View or Gear VR headset.
Meanwhile, Facebook has added a "Watch Party" feature that syncs video streams and adds a chat box.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday July 27 2018, @10:36AM (2 children)
they keep using that word.
I suppose, by their definition, everyone on SN is "together".
Now someone pass me a beer.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday July 27 2018, @10:57AM (1 child)
*Passes virtual beer* Now watch out for that virtual hangover!
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MostCynical on Friday July 27 2018, @12:33PM
Thanks! And a virtual beer [ratebeer.com] for you, too!
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex