Plex Now Lets You Stream Your Media in VR With Friends

Media streaming service Plex is embracing virtual reality.

Plex, for the uninitiated, organizes all your media content — movies, Tv shows, music, and photograph collections — and streams information technology to your devices. Now you can stream that content in virtual environments. Imagine watching your favorite show in a fancy virtual apartment or a drive-in movie theater. That's at present possible, with Plex VR, which is launching today on Google's Daydream platform.

To attempt it out, download the Plex VR app on a Fantasize-gear up Android phone and log in. Once you do that, you tin can cull your preferred virtual environs, customize your Plex VR avatar, and showtime watching. For a expect at the experience, check out the video below.

With Plex VR, you can spotter with up to 3 of your friends and gab virtually what'southward happening on screen.

"Once you gather up your friends, everyone'southward avatars will appear together in the selected scene (the sleek flat or the drive-in theater)," Plex CTO and Cofounder Elan Feingold wrote in a weblog post. "Head positions are updated in real-time, so you can see what everyone's looking at, and you lot tin click the remote push button to talk to the grouping. There is a ton of fancy technology backside the scenes, but to anyone using it, it'due south just an incredibly engaging and (cartel we say?) intimate way to watch media together, regardless of where in the world anybody is."

The option to stream your media in VR is free, but y'all'll need a Plex Pass subscription ($four.99 a month, $39.99 a year, or $119.99 for a lifetime) to employ the co-watching feature. You can, yet, test out the co-watching feature free for a week when you start using Plex VR.

Meanwhile, with Plex Pass, you tin can also save your content to a third-political party deject storage service for safekeeping, connect your camera for automatic photograph uploads, and view premium movie and music channels from partners like Vevo.

About Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fitness and smart abode products. Didactics yoga for about 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected wellness products including fitness trackers, centre rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength grooming machines, treadmills, and more. Angela likewise tests smart dwelling devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to name a few.