I have used Immersed for screensharing movies in VR. (We’re both mac users, so nothing other than Immersed is possible currently.) It’s a bit finicky but you can definitely make it work. I had to lower the resolution of the shared screen until the streaming framerate rose to acceptable levels, but then it was generally great.
The main advantage of this over the more typical approach with a video call is that you can get more of a sense of ‘presence’—you can’t see the other person’s face, but an avatar can in some ways feel more expressive (you can see their head movements and hand movements.)
However, at least when we tried this, the Immersed screensharing worked much better than the Immersed multiplayer avatars, so we ended up going back to video chat. I expect it’s improved since then, though. (The BigScreen avatars are super cool, an incredibly strong sense of presence, but we can’t screenshare on BigScreen because that feature is Windows-only. Very frustrating.)
(Disclosure: I made a small investment in Immersed, because I think it’s super cool.)
I have used Immersed for screensharing movies in VR. (We’re both mac users, so nothing other than Immersed is possible currently.) It’s a bit finicky but you can definitely make it work. I had to lower the resolution of the shared screen until the streaming framerate rose to acceptable levels, but then it was generally great.
The main advantage of this over the more typical approach with a video call is that you can get more of a sense of ‘presence’—you can’t see the other person’s face, but an avatar can in some ways feel more expressive (you can see their head movements and hand movements.)
However, at least when we tried this, the Immersed screensharing worked much better than the Immersed multiplayer avatars, so we ended up going back to video chat. I expect it’s improved since then, though. (The BigScreen avatars are super cool, an incredibly strong sense of presence, but we can’t screenshare on BigScreen because that feature is Windows-only. Very frustrating.)
(Disclosure: I made a small investment in Immersed, because I think it’s super cool.)