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by larsberg 2830 days ago
One of the biggest things we've found that people like to do in VR is private viewing. They'll collect links of videos all day and then come home to watch them on a "big screen" but don't have a laptop or TV that supports miracast, so use a VR headset. Or they like to watch twitch streamers or their favorite movie providers or just bounce around searching content.

As the hardware becomes more mature, we'll support more use cases, but we wanted to enable some compelling early use cases (especially voice search) and learn from users as soon as we could.
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martinald 2830 days ago
A $15 chromecast can easily enable this? I'm surprised this is an actual use case.
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johntash 2830 days ago
A $15 chromecast + a TV or monitor that someone may not have/want for whatever reason. A chromecast wouldn't be private either if you have other people in your household.
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IshKebab 2830 days ago
VR headsets are pretty awful at watching traditional 2D content though. And yeah, who buys an entire VR headsets because the don't have an HDMI cable or a Chromecast? This sounds implausible.
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