A lot of developers have spent a great deal of time creating games and technical-related goods for the Oculus Rift, but very few have wandered “outside the box” in terms of multimedia. However, a group of Netflix employees may have just created a service that fans may just want.
During the Netflix Hack Day event, the group created a new program called Oculix, which allows for the browsing and watching of certain Netflix programs through the VR-related device. With this program, users can look around in the Rift to see what’s available for viewing, then use Leap Motion to scroll down to their choice and view away. The video below shows just how the program works.
A number of other hacks demonstrated during the event include programming Philips light bulbs to change in color, depending on what the user happened to be watching at the time, as well as an extension of Google Chrome that creates a “mini screen” experience, where people can watch programming in a second window while working. So House of Cards fans can still get their bingeing on while doing other things.
While Netflix doesn’t have any official plans for the Oculix program, it certainly should. It’s got excellent potential to change how people view movies with the program, and chances are it would work just as well with Sony’s forthcoming Project Morpheus device. (Even though it’d probably have to change its name to something like Morphflix, which isn’t bad.)
What do you think Would you use Oculix
Source: Recode.net