VRTV VR Video Player

Chai Software

About this app

Watch your favorite 2D and 3D videos in VR with VRTV VR Video Player and a Cardboard compatible headset! VRTV features beautiful virtual environments and is the ONLY VR video player that supports watching together with a friend in full synchronised play.

VTRV VR Video Player has great support for all common 3D/2D formats and modes including 180, 220, 270 and 360 panoramas and fisheye objective projection.

VRTV VR Video Player features:

- Synchronization feature! Enjoy watching a movie together with another Cardboard friend!

- Subtitles in SRT format, with full support for RTL languages, Unicode characters and automatic encoding detection.

- Configurable subtitle size.

- Immersive virtual environments. Watch in your own home theater, or in a crafty cave.

- Player controls in a great VR UI.

- Next/Previous media buttons to switch between videos.

- Fully configurable gamepad and keyboard controls.

- Supports 3D and 2D movies in a variety of formats: Side by side (SBS), Over and Under (OU, Top and Bottom), Panoramic video in 180 (Dome), 220, 270 and 360 degrees. Also supports fisheye projection videos.

- Simple material design.

- Uses the latest Cardboard SDK with less drift.

- Headset configuration from within the app. Supports several different head trackers, find the one that works best with your phone and eliminate drift.

- Streaming files over a network. Open a stream from VRTV or use your favourite browser of file explorer to open streams in VRTV VR Video Player.

- Static video mode. For long movies, lock the video in place right in front of you.

VR Button guide:

- Below screen: Open file browser and Play controls

- Left of screen: Subtitle on/off, text size, Sync on/off and Screen lock. Read more about Sync below!

- Top of screen: Re-center with timer, SDK re-center (keep horizon level), Screen-type switch, Video type switch (2D/3D Side By Side, 3D Over/Under), and fisheye projection toggle.

- Right of screen: Screen size and volume


Synchronization instructions:

- Synchronization is a feature that keeps a movie in sync between two devices. To enable sync, first set up the IP of the device you wish to sync with in Settings/General, where you can also find the IP of your own device. Do this on both phones so they have each others IP configured.

- Select a video to play. If it's a local video it must be present on both devices.

- In the VR UI, click the "sync" button on both devices to enable synchronization.

- On one of the devices, start the video by pressing the play button. After a small delay, the movie will start playing synchronized on both devices.

Seeking and network play is supported!

Feature suggestions and bug reports are always welcome!

Permission usage:

NFC, WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE : Used by the Cardboard SDK to set up and save your headset configuration.

ACCESS_WIFI_STATE: Used for finding the IP of your device and displaying it in the Sync settings, to help set up synchronized play with another device.

INTERNET, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: Required for accessing media on the device and for streaming.

Note: The VIBRATE permission is not used and will be removed in the next release.

Ratings and reviews

The newest update has rendered this app useless on huawei mate 9. No matter which combination of video settings I use, it is only a black screen. Audio works fine. Not sure why you'd change the video playback in a way that would render it useless. Regret paying for this app now. Hopefully an update fixes this and I will change my rating if it becomes usable again EDIT: App is fully functional again, thank you for the speedy update. Rating has been changed to correctly assess this app. 5/5

Most of the videos I play end up severly pixelated, choppy, or freeze completely; then the app will freeze half the time, and that's even with quite a few lower quality vr vids. My phone can handle the videos too (I have a galaxy s8+) because it can view most high quality VR videos on Deovr just fine, I was just looking to be abke to view a couole of file types that Deovr can't. It makes videos completely unwatchable. I regret not trying the free version first.

Used to be the best vr theater app available but it's been self exiting play back within a few minutes of starting a new video for months now which renders it completely useless. I've had to go back to using other apps which is a pity since this was a better choice before it bugged out. It has been months but I'll keep it on my phone and hope for an update somewhere down the line since I paid for it...