VR in a headset

The x4u Theatre on a Quest: setting it up, and the controls.

Opening the Theatre

In a headset's browser, such as a Quest's, Enter the Theatre in the sidebar opens x4u in VR. A scene's own Enter VR button, at the top left of its player, goes straight to that scene. Either way the video plays around you at its full quality.

Headsets only allow this on a secure page, so open x4u at one of the HTTPS addresses in Settings → Other devices. The first time, the headset warns that the connection isn't private: x4u makes its own certificate, as no public one covers a home network.

To stop the warning for good, install x4u's certificate on the headset once. Settings → Other devices gives its address: open it in the headset's browser, then install the downloaded file as a CA certificate in the headset's settings, under Security, Encryption and credentials.

Picking what to watch

The Theatre opens with your library on a curved wall around you. Point at a cover to see its preview and pull the trigger to play it; the magnifying glass on the wall brings up a keyboard to search with. Point with a controller and pull the trigger, or pinch with your hands.

While it plays

While it plays there's only the video: point at nothing and pull the trigger, or press B or Y, to bring up the controls below you, the scene on your right and what's up next on your left. A scene with markers has a row of them under the controls, each with its picture: point at one to see a preview of that stretch, and pull the trigger to go there. Home, on the left of the controls, brings back the library wall, and pressing a performer, tag or studio beside the scene shows the rest of theirs there.

Hold the trigger on the timeline to drag through the scene. A or X plays and pauses, the thumbstick left and right skips 10 seconds, up and down jumps between markers (or scrolls the list you're pointing at), and pressing it in turns the video to face you.

Moving things

Hold the grip on a panel and move your hand to swing the controls aside or lower them. Drag a list with the trigger held to scroll it. Hold the grip pointing away from the panels and move your hand to turn or tilt the picture, and push the stick while holding to zoom; x4u remembers it for that scene.

More

Under More you can change the video's VR format or swap its eyes if they look wrong, put the picture back with Reset view, turn the sounds off, show your room around the Theatre (Room, on a Quest), cut the performer out into your room (Passthrough, which SexLikeReal's passthrough videos turn on by themselves), and see how playback is going under Stats. Flat videos play on a big screen.