Why limit yourself to your small screen on the phone? Run VR Theater for Cardboard, an app by Couch Games Software, best experienced on your PC or Mac with BlueStacks, the world’s #1 Android emulator.
VR Theater for Cardboard feels like a homemade virtual cinema that just lets someone watch their own videos in a headset without a lot of fluff. It drops the viewer into a theater-style screen where they can look around, pick from two simple 3D rooms and a bunch of photo backdrops, and play regular 2D movies or 3D formats like side by side, over under, and even old school red cyan. It also handles panoramic 360 and 180 clips, which is neat when they just want to sit and look around a bit. The catch is, it is rough. The menus are awkward, instructions are thin, the graphics are basic, and controls feel clumsy until they figure out where things are. Expect bugs here and there, and movie format support is mostly mp4, with other files sometimes working if luck is on their side.
There are no ads or in-app payments, and it does not require headset buttons, so gaze and on-screen controls do the job. The Options menu is where the real value hides, since they can tweak screen size, distance, and a few viewing tweaks to make it comfortable. It can open files from local storage and can play streams from the web or other apps. Running it on a PC through BlueStacks is handy for testing files, clicking through menus with a mouse, and sorting a library, even if the split screen view is meant for a phone in a viewer. It is a spare-time project from one person, not actively developed, but bumped occasionally to keep working, so expectations should stay modest.
Ready to experience VR Theater for Cardboard on a bigger screen, in all its glory? Download BlueStacks now.
