![]() With the VR app, up to four friends can watch together in real-time as well as voice chat with one another while viewing the content. ![]() However, Plex is making it available for free for the first week, so everyone can give it a shot. The app’s co-watching feature will be a premium feature for subscribers only. To talk, you just press the button on the remote. When co-watching, your friends’ avatars will appear together in the scene and their head positions will update in real-time, so you can tell what they’re looking at. Plex VR will allow you to watch videos with three other friends at the same time. However, the social layer to Plex’s experience is a bit more interesting. Watching videos in VR still feels like a bit of gimmick these days (especially if you’re only viewing standard video that’s not designed for 360 degree viewing). There are little details to make the scenes fun – like how you can honk the car’s horn at the drive-in, or pick up items on the table (like your popcorn) and move them around or even throw them. Some of these scenes will require a Plex Pass subscription, but VR streaming itself will be free to all Plex users. The VR app itself offers a couple of basic “scenes” to choose from as the venue for launching into this VR experience, including a city apartment and drive-in theater. Over time, it will be able to stream other content from Plex, as well. Plex VR is initially compatible with Google Daydream VR headsets and Daydream-ready Android phones, allowing users to play back local media content on their Android device, including 3D and 360-degree and 180-degree video. The addition will allow Plex users to not only watch videos in VR, but also co-watch with friends – a social component to media consumption that a number of companies, including, recently, Facebook and YouTube, have begun to explore. With Plex simply stating that updates to those platform apps are next in line.As part of its broader, long-term strategy to appeal to content producers by offering them more exposure, media software maker Plex today is unveiling its new VR experience, Plex VR. Although no firm details were provided during today’s announcement on when those platform updates will come. While today’s announcement largely focuses on Plex Live TV support expanding to Android mobile, the announcement also does detail that updates for other platforms (such as Roku, Amazon’s Fire TV, Smart TVs in general, as well as the Plex Web App) are in the works and will be coming through soon. Effectively, Plex users will now have full control over local live TV content through their Android mobile devices, as well as Android TV devices. So in addition to being able to play and record, users will now also be able to pause, rewind and fast forward content. As for Live TV in general, Plex has also today confirmed that not only is the feature officially now out of beta, but it also now includes the ability to time-shift. As well as the other additional hardware that is needed to make the service work as intended. However, a Plex Pass is needed to make use of these features, with prices for Plex Pass starting at $4.99 per month. As a result, Android device owners with the Plex app installed should see the update with support for Plex Live TV arriving in due course.įollowing the arrival of that update, Android smartphone and tablet users now have the ability to watch and record local live TV content through their devices. Which is exactly what Plex has now confirmed in today’s announcement. Plex did confirm however, that it did have plans to eventually expand the feature to additional platforms including Android mobile. Live TV support was first announced by Plex at the start of June, although at the time the feature was only available to a select number of platforms, such as Android TV. Resulting in a significant number of mobile and tablet users now able to take part in what is a significant feature-addition to the Plex ecosystem. Plex has today announced that support for its Live TV service has now been expanded to include Android. smarthphone-comparisions Smartphone Comparisons.ultimate-tech-gift Ultimate Tech Gift Guides. ![]() chinese-smarthphones Chinese Smartphones.ic_best-allthings-android2x Best Of All Things Android.ic_best-android-games2x Best Android Games.ic_best-android-apps2x Best Android Apps.ic_android-buyers-whatis2x Android What Is.ic_android-buyers-guide2x Android Buyers Guide.top-10 Top 10 Best Android Apps & Games.best-android-phones Best Android Phones.
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