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I think the reason vrchat is more popular than bigscreen for hosting movies is that despite all the annoyances you have to go through for hosting stuff in vrchat, there's still a lot of friction to get people out of (usually) vrchat and into a bigscreen lobby, and then back into vrchat once the movie is over and you want to go chat or explore other wo rlds. A portal or instance join is less of a hassle than opening another program, searching for lobbies, typing in codes, etc. Most of the ease of use of bigscreen is on the hoster and not the audience as well, so for most people, they'll balk at using a different program, and the hoster will just have to suck it up and use vrchat

I'm not saying it _should_ be this way, but that's why I think it is. Bigscreen is otherwise fine, privacy or botnet-wise. they of course want to to pay for their "official" movie rentals, but they don't prevent you from streaming whatever, or using their syncplay feature on torrented files. Oh, also if you do want to stream videos from your own hard drive, you do need sufficient upload bandwidth. You can also use dropbox hosting like people do for vrchat though.

It is a shame the steam vr home sucks so much; it would be great if that was the sort of in-between social area instead of vrchat. Imagine join a steamvr meetup, then hopping into a portal into an actual VR game with your friends, no lobby codes o shit needed.