Virtual Reality, the PC screen becomes huge with bigscreen
Bigscreen is an application that allows you to use and share the PC screen with virtual reality viewers like HTC Lives and Oculus Rift.
Viewers of Virtual Reality, like HTC Lives and Oculus Rift have represented a category of products recently that only now appears in the market with concrete proposals and that, as such, requires a good software support for asking the attention of potential buyers.
The manufacturers of the new viewers are sought to establish that major developers have chosen to support them by releasing video games and innovative applications, but not always clear how viewers can interact with traditional PC applications and the desktop environment.
To provide interesting information in this regard are the Bigscreen developers, an application currently under development, which will allow you to manage and share the interface and PC applications within the virtual environment reproduced by the viewer.
A software solution that allows, firstly, to manage the desktop PC through a size monitor much larger than those that are usually found accommodation on the desk: developers refer to a screen reproduced by VR viewer can assume that the maximum size of 6 meters (or better, that this will be perceived by the user wearing the display). A solution – on paper – ideal for creating, for example, a virtual home cinema.
Clear the purpose of the project – it is worth emphasizing – unlike other VR software does not focus on individual app reproduced in the virtual environment, but on the entire desktop and all your PC applications that can be used in VR.
Our goal is to allow anyone to use the entire desktop, the virtual reality. Why use your computer on a tiny 15″ screen when you could use huge screens of infinite size. All you can do on your computer – web browsing, viewing videos, playing games and also be productive – you can do in virtual reality on huge screens with Bigscreen.
There are interesting features ” social ” as an opportunity to address multi-player titles, collaborate with your contacts using the ScreenSharing function or simply communicate with your friends using the 3D voice chat. Bigscreen is a cross-platform and offers support both to Oculus Rift, both HTC Vive.
The owner of one of the two just mentioned VR viewers can participate in the beta test program carried out privately by connecting to the following address, while the stable version will be available in April. By the end of the year it will also be released for BigScreen Gear VR.
Early to determine whether, in the future, the traditional PC monitor will be replaced by their virtual transposition. The BigScreen developers trying to suggest that road, but between the idea, the first forms of implementation and success as a popular product and shared standard pace is certainly not short.
For more insights and to continue to follow the evolution of the project, it is reported the official website of BigScreen and the official Twitter account.
