Tessera

Most video players on Quest give you one screen. Tessera gives you as many as your headset can decode, and lets you put them wherever you like.

Start in a 2D window as a tiled wall, then press Immersive and the same videos lift out into the room around you; grab a screen, push it back, pull it in, grow it, curve it. What’s playing keeps playing across the switch.

WHERE YOUR VIDEO COMES FROM

• Files already on the headset
• USB drives; including NTFS and exFAT drives Horizon OS won’t mount itself
• SMB / Windows network shares
• Jellyfin and Plex servers

3D AND VR VIDEO

Side-by-side, over-under, 180, 360 and fisheye are detected from the file’s metadata, its name and its shape. If a file is read wrong, set the format by hand and it’s remembered.

HONEST LIMITS

How many stream at once depends on what they are. Twelve small files is realistic; heavy 4K is two or three. Past what the headset can handle, the oldest screen pauses on its last frame rather than everything stuttering.

This is a player, not a service. No catalogue, no subscription, nothing

streamed from us. Five sample clips are included so there’s something to watch out of the box.

TALK TO ME

There’s one rabbit in this warren, and he reads everything.

Tell me your troubles and desires. I aim to make this product a pleasure to use.

hello@rabbitholesolutions.ca

CREDITS

Playback by libVLC (LGPL). Samples from Blender Foundation open movies

(CC BY). Open-source licenses: https://rabbitholesolutions.ca/tessera/licenses/