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Merge VR Goggles Vs Freefly VR: Which Budget Consumer Virtual Reality Headset Should You Buy?

he future is finally here – consumer virtual reality headsets are coming this Christmas that work in conjunction with the smartphone in your pocket, rather than being tied to a computer or consoles as with the Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR. 

 

Super-keen virtual reality nerds will already have queued up for hours to test out the upcoming Samsung Gear VR or the HTC Vive, but if you’re just a casual user who wouldn’t mind dipping your toe in the water and you don’t want to pay a premium price, then there is an alternative.Merge VR Googles and the Freefly VR headset are two virtual reality headsets now on the market that aim to give a better experience than Google Cardboard, while still not breaking the bank. But are they any good? Let’s find out. 



 

The Merge VR Goggles come with an adjustable head strap, knobs to adjust the lenses and the buttons on the iPhone 6S are easily accessible for interactionIBTimes UK 

The Merge VR Goggles feature adjustable straps and lenses, which is useful to ensure that your view of the VR app is as clear as possible. There is also a hole in the front of the headset where presumably one day the smartphone’s camera can interact with a virtual reality landscape, but there are no apps that allow you to test this feature for now. 

The headset was very comfortable to wear and it was good to be able to instantly adjust the volume on the smartphone through the hole on the top of the headset. However, even after adjusting the lenses, the view still seemed to be a bit blurry, almost as if the app was in quite low resolution. 

After wearing the headset for a while it becomes quite heavy and your eyes start to feel strained. The general advice with VR headsets is that you can’t wear them for too long, but this is a pity as you can’t get sucked into a VR app game the way you do with a video game console. One plus point about this headset is that it’s made from hypoallergenic foam, but the negative is that it feels very block-y and a bit cheap. 

Merge VR Googles 

The Verdict 

The Merge VR is very comfortable to wear and it is definitely lighter on your head than the Oculus Rift or the Samsung Gear VR, but at the end of the day, it’s still only made from foam, so it doesn’t have the sophisticated feel you’d expect from spending £50. 

Scores:
  • Design: 8/10 - The foam is comfortable and the lenses and straps are easily adjustable.
  • Lenses: 6/10 - The lenses were not as clear as they could be.
  • Functionality: 6/10 - Smartphone buttons easy to access, but interaction is limited besides moving your head.


Pros:
  • Adjustable straps.
  • Light, comfortable, hypoallergenic design.
  • Easy to access smartphone buttons.


Cons:
  • Feels cheap.
  • Interactions are limited.
  • No electronic input.


 

The Freefly VR headset opens up so the Huawei Honor 6 Plus smartphone can be securely clipped insideIBTimes UK 

The Freefly VR headset is quite comfortable to wear and is lighter than the Merge VR, so you can wear it for a long period of time without feeling burdened by the weight of the headset on your head. It also has very good lenses, although sometimes it feels that from certain angles you need the headset to be even closer to your face, and you cannot adjust the straps to achieve this. 

The plastic feels rather cheap, and the design prevents the user from adjusting the volume or touching any of the smartphone buttons once the phone has been clipped into the headset. You could use headphones, but if you don’t want to, this can be quite annoying as you have to start the app on the smartphone, adjust the volume to what you think it should be, secure the phone to the backing board and then close the headset. 

There’s no start button on the headset, so it feels that you’re playing catch-up once you put the headset on. The Glide joystick features similar controls to a game console controller. It connects with ease to the smartphone, but as there are almost no VR apps that are Glide-enabled and the ones that are don’t work that great, there is not much to say for now. 

Freefly VR Headset 

The Verdict 

The Freefly VR headset is comfortable to wear and has good lenses, but the plastic makes it feel like a low-end product. However, the Bluetooth-enabled joystick worked perfectly with game apps and enabled a good range of interaction. 

Scores:
  • Design: 7/10 - Lenses and straps are not adjustable; at times you need to hold it to your head.
  • Lenses: 8/10 - The lenses are quite clear.
  • Functionality: 6/10 - Smartphone buttons inaccessible, but joystick offers additional functionality.


Pros:
  • Good lenses.
  • Joystick offers interactivity.
  • Light and comfortable to wear.


Cons:
  • Feels cheap.
  • No access to smartphone volume buttons.
  • No electronic input.
  • Straps can’t be adjusted.


Which should you buy? 

It depends what you need the VR headset for. If you’re running a promotional marketing event and you want some headsets for the public to view a VR experience, like a 360-degree music video, then both headsets are a massive step-up from Google Cardboard, and I would recommend the Merge VR, especially since it is made from durable hypoallergenic foam, making it a good choice for children too. But if you want to play games, then you might be better off with the Freefly VR headset, which has the Glide joystick that you can interact with, although at the moment, none of the VR apps really work with the Glide. 

Sadly, both headsets lack the premium feel of being a cool gadget you’re excited to own. If you’re an adult gamer, you’d probably enjoy using the Samsung Gear VR or the Oculus Rift more, as they feel more like the luxury experience you expect from a tech gadget today. 

In terms of the technology itself, you can’t wear the headsets for very long or you will start to get a headache (or even motion sickness). The standard advice is that you should take the headset off every 10 minutes, but this won’t lead to consumers investing much into the app experience. 

At the moment, there aren’t many apps for people to play with, and the apps that do exist tend to be mostly VR experiences with little to no interaction with the consumer. There are some VR games, but these mostly rely on the user having to endlessly turn their neck and move their head in order for the phone to pick up the head gesture and translate it into a command in the app. 

To be fair, these problems are universal across all virtual reality headsets, including the higher-end Samsung Gear VR and the Oculus Rift – my sources who demo these headsets to the public say consumers, including gamers, who try on these headsets complain of headaches, eye strain and irritation after having the headsets on for only a short period of time. 

Much still needs to change to make virtual reality a viable hobby. Even if you have all the exciting content in the world, people won’t be using virtual reality headsets for lengths of time if the headsets place stress on the eyes and head, and will probably stick to video game consoles and TV. 


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Christmas is getting more and more close. You maybe have decorated your Christmas tree with your kids with lots of twinkling lights, garlands and ornaments. Or you have prepared the popular Christmas songs and moviesfor the singing in the family party and watching in the Christmas Eve. Have you recorded the happy time but can’t upload it to YouTube for sharing? Did you meet the playback issue when you test the movies on your wide screen TV or 4K projector? If so, Pavtube gives you the solution. 

 
 
 
 
 

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There are many reasons that can lead the failure playback on Blu-ray/DVD movies: complex copy protection, different region codes between your disc and BD/DVD driver, format incompatibility, display screen resolution doesn’t match with DVD, BD/DVD drive out-of-work, etc. To avoid all of these issues, you can rip and backup your Blu-ray/DVD to NASUSB External DriveWD MyCloud or Seagate Wireless Plus to achieve movie playback on your TV, Projector, Tablet, PC, iPad, etc with Blu-ray/DVD Ripper like Pavtube DVDAid for Windows/Mac, Pavtube BDMagic for Windows/Mac and Pavtube ByteCopy for Windows/Mac

Learn: Pavtube Softwares Comparison: ByteCopy vs BDMagic vs DVDAid vs Video Converter Ultimate 

How to Play, Edit and Share your Christmas Recording? 

Generally, video sharing sites, like YouTube, Vimeo, don’t support you recordings with camcorders natively. Before upload the Christmas recordings, you have to transcode them to MP4, AVI, FLV and other sharing sites compatible format. What’s more, some people will want to edit the Christmas recordings before share it, but the raw recordings is MXF, AVCHD or MTS file which can’t be supported by popular video editing tool. That needs you to convert the recordings to video editing tool, like iMovie, FCP, Premiere Pro CC supported format in advance. All of the work can be achieved by Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate for Windows/Mac. It has other powerful function about video conversion and video editing. Just read its review

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How to digitize iTunes movie to Plex for Roku 3



As the growth of multimedia devices, more and more people like to buy digital movies from online retailers, Amazon, Nexflix, especially iTunes, and then entertain themselves at home with media players, or on portable devices on the move. With the digital movie copies, there is no limit on space or time for video or movie enjoyment, and you can watch movies on mobile phones, tablets, computers, and use Roku 3 as a top-up box for your Plex media center to stream all your videos. 

 

While, you may find it a painful experience to stream iTunes movieon Roku 3 via Plex since iTunes downloaded videos is not compatible with Roku 3 box. As we know, iTunes videos can only be syncing within iOS devices, including iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Meanwhile, iTunes purchased and rental videos are DRM protected in order to limit its range of uses after purchase. To digitize iTunes movie to Plex Media Server for Roku? You have to remove DRM protection from iTunes purchases or rentals, and then convert iTunes to Roku 3/Plex compatible format

With the best iTunes DRM Removal – Pavtube ChewTune, you can easily accomplish that within few clicks. Overall, it is an amazing DRM remover to help you remove DRM from iTunes movies, and then you can steam all of them on Roku 3 via Plex with lossless quality preserved. In addition, the program has outputs with optimized settings for your portable device like iPad Air, iPhone 6, Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, Galaxy Note 4, etc. You just need to select the device as the output format and you can convert iTunes movies to fit your device without further settings. 

 (Click here for Mac OS X 10.5) 

Hot search: iTunes to Xbox 360 | iTunes to PS4 | iTunes to NAS | iTunes to TV | Plex Problems & SolutionsGuide: Streaming iTunes video to Roku 3 with Plex 

Step 1: Add iTunes M4V video from iTunes library to iTunes DRM Removal tool by clicking the “Add video” on the software main UI. 

 

Step 2: Choose “Common Video > H.264 Video (*.mp4)” from Format drop-down list as output format. By choosing the preset, you can customize video size, bitrate, frame rate, audio sample rate, channels, and more parameters in Profile Settings to get a perfect backing up on Plex Media Sever and a satisfying enjoyment on Roku 3. 

 

Step 3: Click “Convert” button to start removing iTunes DRM protection to Roku 3. When it is done, open output folder, find DRM-free MP4 video there. 

Step 4: Stream iTunes video to Roku with Plex.
  • Install Plex server on your computer. Once the Plex server is installed successfully, it will detect all of the movies, television shows, and music on your computer.
  • Install Plex server on Roku 3. First you’ll need to download and install the Plex Channel on your Roku. Because it’s not a default channel currently, so we have to do this manually on Roku website under your Roku account.
  • Configure Plex on the Roku. You have to configure the Plex server before streamingthe videos on the computer.


Then you can better watch the digitized iTunes movies on Roku 3 via Plex Media Sever. 


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Get Gone Girl Blu-ray to store in Plex for playback on Apple TV



I am beyond excited to talk about not only an incredible David Fincher film but also one of my favorite films of 2014… Gone Girl! Now I got the Blu-ray of this movie and I´m looking for an easy solution for my parents to stream this Blu-ray to their Apple TVs for watching. The point here is, if Plex can support 1080p blu ray rips around 8GB~10GB with DTS/Dolby Digital streaming smoothly, shall we need to rip my Blu-ray for Plex Media Server? 

 

Well, in this article, I will share the easiest and quickest way to backup Gone Girl Blu-ray into Plex media server for streaming and sharing on Apple TV. 

To get Blu-rays on Plex for ATV playback, you’ll need a Blu-ray drive installed in your computer and a third-party Blu-ray ripping software. Most of you are likely familiar with the excellent Handbrake for ripping standard Def Blu-rays, but while the latest version of the software has added SOME support for reading Blu-Ray folder structures, it cannot yet deal with the protected Blu-Ray discs (See How to rip Blu-ray using Handbrake) the way it can with regular Blu-rays, so you’ll need to add an intermediate step. 

Here Pavtube BDMagic is the bee’s knees(Read reviews), which aims to solve this problem by giving us the ability to store our purchased physical Blu-ray discs or downloaded media to local computer, hard drive then stream over a home network for Plex Media Server and Apple TV playback. It’s professional in ripping and converting Blu-ray/Blu-ray discs, Blu-ray/Blu-ray ISO image, Blu-ray/Blu-ray copies and more. It will help you backup your Blu-ray disk and save the time looking for them from the cardboard with ease. If you are working on Mac OS X, please get the Mac version

  

After downloding, follow the wizard to install and run the program. Then follow the steps below to convert Blu-ray to Plex/Apple TV comaptible formats in a few clicks!Ripping, converting Blu-ray to Plex Media Server for streaming to Apple TV 

Step 1: Add the Gone Girl Blu-ray movie 

Insert your Blu-ray disc to the drive, then launch the Blu-ray to Plex/ATV Ripper and click the “Load Blu-ray” button to load Gone Girl Blu-ray. ISO files are also supported. After the Blu-ray movie is loaded, you can preview it on the right viewing window and adjust volume or take snapshots freely. 

 

Tips: You can click on the dropdown list of “Subtitles” to select your needed subtitles so that you can view Blu-ray movies with proper subtitles. 

Step 2: Decide output format 

Click the “Format” -> “Apple TV” option, and choose corresponding formats recognized by Apple TV as output format which can also be stored on Plex Media Server. 

 

Note

1. If you want to stream your Blu-ray to play everywhere via Plex, the output format is preferably in a common format or HD format, like MP3 for audio, MP4 for video. The more common format you use, the more devices you can stream to. For example, if you use FLAC instead of MP3 for your music, you can’t stream to your Xbox One/360. Just keep in mind that not all devices support all formats of media. 

2. With the right settings you can retain the quality of the original Blu-ray while also saving space. This is particularly helpful when streaming over your network, depending on you r network quality. Simply click “Settings” bar and you can tweak the settings to your satisfaction and even save it as preset. 

 

Step 3: Convert Blu-ray to Plex Media Server 

Click the “Convert” button under the preview window, and the Blu-ray ripper will start the conversion from Blu-ray movies to Plex Media Server. 

Once the conversion finished, get the ripped Blu-ray files onto Plex Media Server easily. Now you can stream Gone Girl Blu-ray movie through Plex to connected Apple TV for great enjoyment. 

Below is a tutorial for setting up PlexConnect on local network to stream videos to Apple TV without jailbreak. 


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DVD to Multi-Track Ripper – Rip DVD to Multi-Track MKV for Plex



Q: “ When I put the disk in the DVD player, it automatically recognizes it. Am I doing something wrong? I would like to be able to convert to a single MKV file so I can play on iPad through a Plex Media Player. So, any great software can you recommend? I’m trying to figure out how to take my dvd’s and convert them to multi-track MKV file so I can upload and play on a Plex Media Server.” 

 

Searched widely and I got some tech support for getting DVD to multi-track MKV movie into Plex Media Server for streaming and playing to iPad correctly. 

1. Find a good DVD to multi-track MKV Converter 
2. Convert DVD to Plex friendly format 
3. Transfer encoded DVD Movies to Plex Media Server 

To get DVD playable in multi-track, the best way is that you should convert DVD to multi-track MKV format first. Learn >> Plex supported formats. In this case, it’s necessary to own Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac. It’s your best tool to rip and convert Blu-ray and DVD movies to MKV/MP4/AVI/MOV container format with multiple audio tracks and subtitles included. It also could rip and convert BD/DVD to any video format you like. The following short guide shows you how to convert a DVD to multi-track MKV for iPad through Plex on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.7 Lion, Snow Leopard 10.6, Leopard 10.5. (Windows version:ByteCopy). 

See Also: ByteCopy for Mac Review – An Alternative to Mac MakeMKV? 

Just free download or buy this best Multi-Track DVD Ripper: 

  

How to rip DVD to multi-track MKV for iPad through Plex on Mac? 

Step 1: Load DVD movies. 

Launch the best DVD to multi-track converter; import DVD movies into the program. Loaded DVDs can be previewed in the right preview window. You can also load the Blu-ray discs and ISO/IFO files. 

 

Step 2: Choose output format 

To rip DVD with multiple tracks, click the drop down box of “Format”, and choose the profile under “Multi-track Video”. This profile is designed to output videos with multiple audio tracks. 

 

To keep multiple audio and subtitle tracks from DVD Disc, you are recommended to choose “Multi-track Video” > “Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV (*.mkv)” for output. 

If you choose “Multi-track MP4(*.mp4)” “Multi-track MOV(*.mov)” or “Multi-track Interlaced DV PAL Video(*.avi)”, you can get encoded MP4, MOV, AVI video with preserving multiple audio streams from original DVD. 

P.S. You can keep and uncheck the audios you don’t need. It all depends on your own choices. 

 

Step 3: The last step you need to do is hit the “Convert” button to start the conversion of DVD content to MKV with original subtitles, audios and chapters you choose. Find generated MKV files by clicking “Open” icon and you can transfer and play DVD Disc with multiple audio and subtitle streams on your Plex or iPad or HD media player. Just enjoy! 

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