Virtual desktop app BigScreen continues to find new ways to push its social VR platform to new limits.
This week, the company behind the app announced a collaboration with Paramount Pictures to screen Tom Cruise classic, Top Gun, in 3D on a virtual movie screen in promotion of the impending Blu-Ray release. Deadline reports that BigScreen users will be able to visit the app’s virtual cinema — which will be themed to look like the opening day of a brand new film — on December 3rd.
Projecting traditional video onto virtual screens isn’t anything new, but BigScreen is going for the full experience here. This will be a full social event in which users can talk before the film starts and trailers will precede the screening.
Screenings will start every 30 minutes over a 24 hour period and will be completely free to attend. Just pull on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, load up the app, and you’ll be good to go.
As an experiment, this could be an important landmark for the VR industry; a major film studio testing out a new way of promoting its films could have big implications for one of the many directions VR is headed. Special event screenings may no longer be confined to specific cinemas at spots around the world but instead globe-spanning experiences that anyone anywhere can join in with. Heck, you may not even have to leave your house to see the latest releases on, well, a big screen in the near future. That’s an exciting thought.
Last week, we also reported that the BigScreen team had also figured out how to get Nintendo’s Switch console running in its virtual environments.
via Mint VR