Share Your Mobile VR Experience With Chromecast For Gear VR

Oculus announced that you can now stream your Gear VR experience to any Chromecast-enabled device.

Sometimes shutting yourself off from the rest of the world is desirable. Other times, you may wish to share the excitement with your friends. Some of our favorite VR experiences didn’t involve us having an HMD on our head. We enjoy watching someone else lose their mind in a virtual world for the first time. Before the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive hit the market, we took a Gear VR to our family Christmas and shared it with our aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents, and everyone had a blast. We can only imagine the experience being much more exciting if we could all see what was going on—and our poor grandfather wouldn’t have been stuck on the title screen in TheBlu for so long.

Oculus said that you would need the latest version of the Oculus software (which would be automatically updated) and the latest version of Android to use the Chromecast feature. The Oculus software now features a cast button in the UI, which launches Chromecast and lets you select nearby devices to receive the cast.

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Kevin Carbotte is a contributing writer for Tom's Hardware who primarily covers VR and AR hardware. He has been writing for us for more than four years.