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Bigscreen raises $11 Million in Series A financing led by True Ventures

Bigscreen raises $11 Million in Series A financing led by True Ventures

We are excited to announce that Bigscreen has raised a $11 million funding round to accelerate the growth of our VR platform
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Recapping our Top Gun 3D movie night with Paramount Pictures

Recapping our Top Gun 3D movie night with Paramount Pictures

On December 29th, we hosted Top Gun 3D with Paramount Pictures in Bigscreen. The event was a resounding success, with nearly 10,000 people…
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[December 2017] Bigscreen brings movie nights to VR with the debut of Top Gun in 3D

[December 2017] Bigscreen brings movie nights to VR with the debut of Top Gun in 3D

This event occurred in December 2017. We have now launched Bigscreen Cinema, and you can watch Top Gun 3D again with friends in our social…
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Hyperrealistic dynamic lighting in Bigscreen environments

Hyperrealistic dynamic lighting in Bigscreen environments

Bigscreen’s environments are getting a major refresh. Today’s update improves visual fidelity & immersion while simultaneously improving…
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Halloween Week in Bigscreen’s “Spooky Update”

Halloween Week in Bigscreen’s “Spooky Update”

Featuring spooky new TV channels and a new Retro Cinema environment
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Grand opening of the MODERN CINEMA in Bigscreen

Grand opening of the MODERN CINEMA in Bigscreen

New modern cinema launching today in Bigscreen VR. Designed like your local movie theater and perfect for watching movies in VR with friends
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Watch The International 2019 DOTA 2 tournament in Bigscreen

Watch The International 2019 DOTA 2 tournament in Bigscreen

We teamed up with Valve to bring The International 2019 to virtual reality in Bigscreen
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Watch today’s SpaceX rocket launch LIVE with thousands of SpaceX fans in VR

Watch today’s SpaceX rocket launch LIVE with thousands of SpaceX fans in VR

Bigscreen hosted a SpaceX rocket launch event and 5,700+ people RSVP’d. We had nearly 1,000 people eagerly awaiting the rocket launch in VR
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Introducing BIGSCREEN TV: watch movies, news, Twitch, sports, & 50+ channels with friends in VR

Introducing BIGSCREEN TV: watch movies, news, Twitch, sports, & 50+ channels with friends in VR

Watch Comedy Central, Bloomberg, YouTube, CNN, MST3K, and Twitch! 50+ free channels, live, 24/7 on Oculus Quest, Valve Index, and more.
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Bigscreen on Quest: our summer roadmap

Bigscreen on Quest: our summer roadmap

It’s been exciting to see tens of thousands of new Quest and Rift S users join Bigscreen and hangout in our rooms. I wanted to update…
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NEW TRAILER: Bigscreen is launching on Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S on May 21

NEW TRAILER: Bigscreen is launching on Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S on May 21

Bigscreen — the virtual reality movie theater — is a popular social VR application with over 1 million users.
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Bigscreen Beta: The Filters Update – Night Mode, CRT screens, and more fun screen filters

Bigscreen Beta: The Filters Update – Night Mode, CRT screens, and more fun screen filters

Night Mode for reducing eye strain, fun filters like CRT, 8-Bit, and brightness, sharpness, contrast adjustments
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The Bigscreen Beta “2019 Update” is now live!

The Bigscreen Beta “2019 Update” is now live!

Real-time raytracing, an audio driver, new avatars, new environments, new VR UI, and more features and improvements.
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Bigscreen is launching today on Oculus Go and Samsung GearVR

Bigscreen is launching today on Oculus Go and Samsung GearVR

We’re excited to announce that Bigscreen is a launch title on the Oculus Go. You can download the Bigscreen Beta for free, with support for…
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The Top 10 VR apps on the Oculus Store today

The Top 10 VR apps on the Oculus Store today

With thousands of titles on the Oculus Store, a curious Redditor scraped the app store to figure out which VR applications have the most…
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The Virtual Reality Metaverse is Nonsense

The Virtual Reality Metaverse is Nonsense

This was written in August 2015. With Ready Player One hitting movie theaters this week, I dusted off this draft and decided to finally…
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Sign up for Bigscreen Alpha Testing on the Samsung Gear VR

Sign up for Bigscreen Alpha Testing on the Samsung Gear VR

We’re excited to announce that Bigscreen is coming to mobile VR headsets in Q2 2018. Soon, users with mobile VR headsets can watch movies…
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Bigscreen’s next VR movie night: Stargate Origins

Bigscreen’s next VR movie night: Stargate Origins

We’re excited to announce that we’ve partnered with MGM Studios to show Stargate Origins in Bigscreen. This week, people can watch the…
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Bigscreen update: new environments, 12 players per room, and performance improvements

Bigscreen update: new environments, 12 players per room, and performance improvements

Today, we’re excited to launch The Big Rooms Update. I’m really proud of the work we accomplished. Every month, we’ve been making Bigscreen…
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A look back at Bigscreen’s 2017 updates

A look back at Bigscreen’s 2017 updates

Reflecting on the amazing work we accomplished this past year, and a glimpse at what’s coming next
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