Getting Google Spotlight Stories onto my VR headset

Dave2022 · 16 Jul 2022 at 10:54

I've got a Google Nexus 7 tablet, on which I've installed the Google Spotlight Stories app, and have downloaded all its videos. A couple of years back, I got an Oculus Go VR headset, and recently I wanted to get the Spotlight Stories videos to play on it, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it.

I'd be very grateful if anyone here could explain how I could do this. I should warn them that it has to be a very clear step by step explanation, as I've had no end of trouble figuring how do do stuff with the Oculus Go (I'm just not that technically minded).

Thanks in advance.

rgrocott · 17 Jul 2022 at 17:58

I don't have an Oculus headset so I'm not 100% sure, but I think you can watch these stories on YouTube using the headset. There's a YouTube app for Oculus, so if you install that, then find the Google Spotlight Stories channel, hopefully you can watch them in VR.

Worth trying anyway!

Dave2022 · 18 Jul 2022 at 09:16

Thanks, but I've already got Youtube on my headset and it doesn't give VR - it just shows everything on a screen in front of you. I need to find a way of getting Spotlight Stories itself onto my headset.

melmac · 18 Jul 2022 at 10:15

Dave2022 said:
Thanks, but I've already got Youtube on my headset and it doesn't give VR - it just shows everything on a screen in front of you. I need to find a way of getting Spotlight Stories itself onto my headset.

It might not be possible to do this, some android apps just don't work on the Quest 2.

Have you a PC and have you ever used it with the Quest 2 for PCVR? Some of the stories are on Steam.

Dsteviedee · 18 Jul 2022 at 16:14

melmac said:
It might not be possible to do this, some android apps just don't work on the Quest 2.

Have you a PC and have you ever used it with the Quest 2 for PCVR? Some of the stories are on Steam.

It's no even a Quest 2, he trying to do it on a Go, I have no experience using Go's ufortunately.
I don't think you can link a Go and a PC, you can sideload apps though, so may be able to do something with that.

EDIT: This may help

melmac · 18 Jul 2022 at 16:22

Dsteviedee said:
It's no even a Quest 2, he trying to do it on a Go, I have no experience using Go's ufortunately.

Oh, thanks for reminding me. I completely forgot that from his opening post.

Dsteviedee · 18 Jul 2022 at 20:32

melmac said:
Oh, thanks for reminding me. I completely forgot that from his opening post.

I wasn't having a pop, just making the point it was older, so may be more difficult to find an answer.

melmac · 19 Jul 2022 at 12:33

Dsteviedee said:
I wasn't having a pop, just making the point it was older, so may be more difficult to find an answer.

Sorry, lol, I didn't take your post as having a pop at all. My post was actually genuinely saying thanks.

Damn internet!!