Cmoar VR Cinema

Amazing cinema experience that is beyond belief !!!

Features LIE! It does not include the ability to load youtube videos, merely search them! I was hoping to be able to log in to my youtube account, sit back and enjoy the movies from my google play account, however I was very disappointed to find this was not possible. Youtube videos have to be searched, and after you've spent 12 hours trying to type in what you want, the video itself will not load. after 20 minutes trying to find a solution, I quit, and have requested a refund. Do not buy!

If you're like me and have tons of movies either on DVD or directly installed on a hard drive, then this is a fantastic utility for experiencing/re-experiencing movies on the big screen! Recently I've re-watched Austin Powers:The Spy who Shagged Me for the first time in years and it was wonderful. Unfortunately I think most of the people that are interested in this game don't have the "luxury" of a stockpile of old DVD and rely on streaming, and as most of the reviews already state, the YouTube feature is busted and the option for Netflix/Hulu are nonexistent as of the time of writing this. So buyer beware, only purchase this if you have physical/Downloaded copies of the movies in question, otherwise you'll not get much mileage from this.

ANY PLANS FOR YOUTUBE TO BE FIXED???????

Youtube NEVER loads and apparently hasnt since early 2019. I went through multiple forums and appears you have never had it working... Please fix this as I only got it to watch youtube.

Unable to load any local or Youtube videos and looking at posts the problem is generalised. This app should be removed as it is not working and has not for a while. It is not being maintained.

Works for the most part, allows you to search on youtube but when you select a video it just says "loading", like FOREVER and nothing loads. I purchased for the youtube feature so it was a waste of money since that part of the app doesn't work.

Beautiful scenery but....

No way to sit centered up front.
Why on earth would i want to sit on the left or right of the screen when sitting up front?

Many of my movies showed as 4:3

To locked for my taste.
Will refund.

Thia app used to be brilliant, however it's got worse... When I join I'm sat way deeper than the chairs, it has limited options, compared to BigScreen, you can share your desktop etc.
There are far more options in BigScreen (which is free) than this paid app... like I said when I bought it, it was great but it hasn't developed as fast.

So for example in BigScreen I can create a room, share my desktop (games, movies etc) and others can join, you can't do this (from what I can see) with this...
In Bigscreen you can create a work environment and invite others if you wish..

CMOAR VR is way behind... try BigScreen first before buying this

This is brilliant. Visually, it's very convincing. I dragged a chair with armrests into my place space and then used the center view option (as well as adjusting my height a bit) to line it up with an in-theater chair. Then I proceeded to watch movies, shows, and youtube videos. It has a great selection of features, and the immersion is incredible. It's like I'm actually seeing these things in a movie theater!

Could use an option to zoom out/in. No matter which row I sit in, it seems like the screen is just a touch too big and I have to move my head.

I'm hoping this will eventually get dvd and blu-ray playback. Could I dare dream of Netflix and Crunchyroll support? Even if I have to navigate the normal Netflix/Crunchyroll site as if the cinema screen was a browser window, and click "Fullscreen" myself to get the desired experience, I'd be ok with that.

No DVD or Blu ray play back. youtube is restricted so much that you can only watch movie trailers but no music videos etc. nice design but a complete waste of time and money. You will be let down if you buy it, trust me. Look elsewhere!

It was a cool idea. Then the Dev jumped ship to Racket Fury:Table Tennis VR, wherin they continue their tradition of promising and not delivering. The Dev has, according to their post history, last posted in the discussions of this offering back in April.
Last update was in January.
Absolutely DO NOT get this and expect it to be improved, ignore any features 'promised' either in the description or discussions.
Plex support uses a hardcoded directory on C:\, so if you installed it anywhere else, it doesn't work.
Youtube support also appears to be very limited.
Pros: It works on Windows 7, and I was able to binge watch 2 seasons of Rick and Morty.
Cons: It's dead, Jim. Dont' support devs that don't support their software.

SUPERB experience! Crisp video, solid coding, perfect lighting effects makes it feel like you are in a theater. Add Netflix and you'll be crowned the King of VR Cinema!

Hands down, this is the best app to watch movies, forget bigscreen, virtual desktop, etc. the quality that this app offers has no rival, the cinema like environment looks like you're there for real with the light reflections of the screen and everything. You can watch 3D and 360º videos from Youtube and has a Plex option that I don't know how it works, then you also have an option to watch movies from your PC (I usually download bluray and 3D movies), this is the function that I use the most. You can't watch stuff online like with bigscreen or virtual desktop but what I look for is that feeling of being at the cinema in the most realistic way that you can imagine. If you're looking for a similar experience and you truly want to feel like you are at the cinema watching a movie then buy this.

I bought this during the Winter Sale. For about the cost of lunch or a movie ticket it is a pretty good movie-watching tool. I did not have any local videos at the time and so went to youtube to watch some overwatch videos. Video quality and sound were good. The environments look great and very detailed but I ended up not enjoying it as much because the home theater and movie theater settings felt incredibly empty without people around.

It would be really cool if the dev(s) added the possibility of steam friends with the app joining in to watch a movie together (like bigscreen) as well as compatibility with other streaming sites.

Really a great virtual theater. I've used a few and this is instantly my favorite. Just to be clear since I wasn't, it does support MKV files, the 3D movie stuff is the best solution I've seen so far - so if you got a 3D side-by-side or up-down 3D file, it works with both, very simple - when you select the file you just choose how to watch it. The lighting is good, the quaility of the theater is excellent, the boat and home cinema are also nice but I'd never use it as the theater is dead on and the great choice for movies - maybe TV shows work better in others. For $10 get it - you'll use it a lot more than you think you will. A+.

Couple more notes based on other feedback I've seen....

I'm using a Oculus Rift no issues there. Personally I really like this better than something like Big Screen or Virtual Desktop as I just like the big theater more. While SBS 3D works perfectly for me, the top/bottom 3D (can't remember the name) is so so. Someone said they weren't getting surround sound, for me in the files I've tested I have - I believe this just looks at your Windows codecs, so if something doesn't work go grab the latest k-lite pack and that will probably fix it, BUT I'm not 100% on that.

Big Screen Beta is free for now and certainly worth also checking out, it has a lot more features, but to my eye they way over do it on lighting and it's distracting - in this one the big theater is perfect with just the right amount of lighting boncing off the walls from the screen, its just crazy immersive, at least for me.

magnificent. Watching 3D movies has never felt so real. Such a low price for such a good bit of software. cannot recommend enough. easy to use. no nonsense. the dynamic lighting effect to match the on screen visuals makes the cinema effect so much better. I absolutely love this Cinema.

It's cool and I like the set up, but I can't recommend it until they add resolution settings for youtube videos. 360 videos are too damn blurry unless you have it on 4k. If you want to watch 360 youtube vids in 4k there are some free programs out there if you do a little googling.

Other than that yah good job.

Very good! Its replaced virtual desktop for movies and videos.

A few things thay can improve on.:

- Higer def performance... Lots of juddering.
- UI could do with something.. No sure what... just seems combersome.. maybe a menu click gives icons rather than multiple clicks?
- 3d ceiling in the cinema?
- More environments.. How about a sitting in the back of a caddilac watching an outdoor screen? , what about a floating screen in the water while you watch from the beach during a nice twilight sunset?(Dark but can still see waves and th ebeach..... Something more with amagination! its VR!??!?!


Anyway.. Its VERY good and I really hope the Dev add more to it.

Buy it.

Wow finally.... A good and complete VR CInema program!

One of the biggest reasons I bought my Oculus Rift CV1 was because I loved to watch movies in VRcinema 3d back at the DK1 days, but when I bought the CV1, I saw VR Cinema 3d was no longer able to download and not optimzed for new VR headsets like the Oculus CV1 and the HTC Vive. For that my quest to a new VR cinema started, and I haved used Bigscreen, VorpX Movie mode, (which is actually quite good, but its not a cinema experience), Oculus Video, and even Cineveo, but neither of them gives me the quality and immersive feeling of a real cinema as this!

Finally some fine controls, decent file browsing, native Rift and Vive support, inapp view reset, easy navigation, and some cinema interaction which ALL other cinema apps are missing. And more things I am missing from other apps like Youtube integration which is awesome, and... seat change ability! Its not the walking around in the cinema feeling like VR CInema3D had, but finally this feature is back.

More features are coming to make this the best, most immersive, and complete VR CInema app at the moment, really loving it at the moment. (funny thing is that they showed the new Star Wars movie and Game of Thrones, and I actually was planning to watch them on VR cinema.. :P )

This is by far the best Cinema viewer out there. It is incredibly easy to use, easy to find your films and everything just works.
You can reset your seat and it gives a countdown so that you can get into position - it's the little things like this that make it so user-friendly.
The quality of the player is superb too - no juddering etc and it looks much better on the screen than the rest of the other players I've bought. Also, the Vive's len's seem to reflect light ( due to the staggered lens I suspect) and this app minimises that effect, so much so that it's pretty comfortable watching a full film on this.
I'm so glad this was released...a big thumbs up from me! :)

EDIT: I would love to see a super-sampling option in the future, along with multiplayer support of some kind. Watching a movie with a friend would be awesome!

Holy smoke, this IS THE BEST movie app I ever used, period!!! And I used many of them...I tried BigScreen, Simple VR Player, Whirligig, Cineveo, Oculus Cinema. This is BAR NONE, the best movie app for VIVE!! Why? Because I said so!! Here's the thing, Oculus Cinema is good but Cmoar takes it further and allow you to change the seat, that's HUGE. You get 4 different environments (and i hope there are more). You get a Home Theater, Movie Theater (biggest one), the VOID and an environment where you sit on a boat. You can change the seat up to 3 positions in two of the four environments. I always choose the closest seat. The thing that makes it great is the UI and the ease of use. FINALLY someone listen and show videos in thumbnails!! None of the video apps i used before show videos in thumbnails (with the exception of Oculus Cinema), they simply display them in file names and that's not appealing to me. This app allow you to scroll through the videos with the trackpad and change to different menus with a click of a button making it very user friendly. This is exactly what I wanted and how to integrate the UI into a movie app. I like how you can "favorite" your videos. I think this is a GREAT feature because you don't have to go around and looking for the videos that you want to watch, everything you want is stored in the "favorite." You can even "favorite" Youtube videos. Here's the positives so far:
1. Home Theater - Nice realistic environment up close look very details. I prefer this over Oculus Home Theater because this is a little closer to the screen.
2. Movie Theater - Better than Oculus Cinema because again, you can change seat and i feel you can get closer. The environment is darker and lighting is nice.
3. Boat Theater - This is the least of my favorite I think because I can't get close enough...I want to get closer. The water doesn't seem as real? I wish it cast reflections like Cineveo? Water should be clear (not too blue) giving it a sense of depth. I like to see what's below the water.
4. Void Theater - Nice size and you can resize it but it's a bit tricky, it needs to fine-tune. But it is as good as any Void theater.
5. I was able to supersampling at 2.5 with no problem...no slow down and stuttering in any of the environments...this is amazing with 980ti.

Like any app, there is always the shortcomings and here's something it needs to improve:
1. Movie Theater - I feel like I want to get EVEN closer, I want the size to be miximized like the maximum size of the VOID theater. I haven't seen a theater that does this....it doesn't bother me because if i can watch the VOID in max size with no problem, i should be able to do the same on the big Movie Theater environment.
2. I feel all the movies are a bit dark, there should be an option for brightness, contrast, ect. adjustments.
3. I feel like the Vive's left trackpad should be used for changing seats...pressing up to move up and down to move down will make thing easier. I also feel that the right trackpad should be used to bring up the movie time status and with the left and right to skip forward and backward.
4. Add volume and supersampling option would be cool.
5. Add the ability to remember your folder or maybe "favorite folder"?
6. Add a nomirror option.
7. Add Netflix and Amazon videos (I know no video apps can pull this off).
8. Use your Vive's cam as a webcam to view what's outside? Like they did in Cineveo?