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As I have mentioned in other posts, the best way to watch VRPorn.com content is to download videos to your iDevice with Documents by Readdle. After downloading videos, the best app to use for watching downloaded videos on iPhone is Mobile VR Station. This app not only provides the best video experience but also offers a meaty smorgasbord of options that you will not get with other VR apps (See below).
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General Overview
The thing about Mobile VR Station is that it is free but only for the first 5 minutes. That said, the premium version of this app is worth a purchase! You can download this app at no cost to test out the huge of variety of features that are offered here. This app works with pretty much every virtual reality headset that is compatible with iPhone.
Additionally, Mobile VR Station does a few other things beyond video. Designed as a virtual reality media providing cornucopia, Mobile VR Station can display photos, panoramic images, regular video content and a few different file formats. The only thing that this app can’t do outright is playing DRM content. So don’t plan on playing iTunes videos.
On App Store, Mobile VR Station app is listed to be designed for the following uses:
– Works with every headset, very flexible configuration
– Watch movies in a virtual theater
– Watch 3D 180 Degree content.
– Explore 360/Spherical movies (Great for demos).
– Experience 3D content (Left/Right, Right/Left and Top/Bottom).
– See your device’s photos & videos in a new way.
– View panoramas with some depth.
– Access external video content with UPNP.
– Watch HTML5 Video from Mobile Safari with Micro VR Station extension.
Mobile VR Station Giveth
Upon first look, Mobile VR Station may seem intimidating because it offers so many different options. That said, the wide variety of settings and options make Mobile VR Station one of the most fully-featured and highly customizable virtual reality experiences available. I am not joking when I say that this app has more features than most PC virtual reality video apps.
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The developer wizard Michael Glen Fuller was able to squeeze so much power out of this app because he used the Obj-C and Apple SceneKit technology. This allowed him to eek out a super high level of performance out of the Apple A processors that power each and every iPhone running iOS 8.1 or later (iOS 8.1 is required to run Mobile Station VR). That said, there are a few limitations in terms of performance.
Resolution
1080P at 60FPS works well on everything released after the iPhone 5S. The developers suggest that earlier devices should use the 720P content. Advanced devices released after the iPhone 6S can play 4K content at 30 FPS. Currently, MOV, MP4, and M4V are the only supported formats however the developers say that new formats are going to be supported sooner rather than later.
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Extras
The app also provides a multitude of fun customization options and extras that make the premium price worthwhile. These extras include:
– Projections: Dome, Full Dome, Curved (Large curve), Plane (Flat), Cylinder & Spherical
– Skyboxes: 47 built-in options.
– Profiles: Each user/headset can have their own specific configuration.
– Audio: Language switching available.
– Subtitles: The app can load UTF-8 formatted *.srt files after a movie has been started
– Watch App for Remote control capabilities
– Bluetooth Remote: If your headset has Play/Pause & Next/Previous buttons, you can use them to control video playback.
– Music can play if you mess with a few settings.
Looking to the kind of control options and extras this app offers, i think Mobile VR Station is far most the best app solution to watch VR vids on iPhone