StreamXR 0.78.9 (Early Access)

🥽 StreamXR 0.78.9: Early Access

YouTube, all around you. 🎬✨ This is the first public release of StreamXR, a free and open-source Chrome extension that turns YouTube into a full VR experience on your Steam Frame. 360° and VR180 videos wrap around you, regular videos play on a giant cinema screen, and you can browse, search, subscribe, like, save and read comments without ever taking your headset off.

🌟 What's inside

• 🎥 Every kind of video: 360° and VR180 (detected automatically), and a cinema screen you can curve, resize and push away, with rounded corners and an ambient glow. Ultrawide and IMAX ratios fill it just like in the theater. 🎞️
• 🎛️ A controls panel made for VR: a seek bar with chapters, preview frames and YouTube's Most Replayed curve; quality up to 8K and 60 fps, speed, volume, 💬 captions, 🔖 Save, Subscribe, Like, playlists and live streams.
• 🗂️ Panels around the video, never on top of it: Description, Comments and Channel on the left; Up Next, Explore and You on the right; 🔎 Search above, with a VR keyboard.
• 🚀 Start from any page: a VR button in YouTube's top bar, so you can jump in from Home and pick something to watch right inside VR.
• 🎨 Make it yours: YouTube or Material 3 colors, glass panels, panel size, the Safe Zone, auto-hide timing, laser steadiness, keyboard layout.
• 🌍 English and Español, with more languages welcome (no coding needed).
• 🔒 Private by design: one permission (youtube.com), no servers, no analytics, no tracking.

🚀 Get started

1. Under Assets below, download Source code (zip) and unzip it somewhere it can stay.
2. Open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode, click Load unpacked and pick the unzipped folder.
3. Start SteamVR on your PC.
4. On the Steam Frame: Streaming Status → your PC → Advanced → Stream VR without game.
5. Open Chrome, click the 🥽 VR button on YouTube, then Enter VR. 🍿

Full guide: Get started · Stuck? Quick troubleshooting

⏩ Want to skip ads from inside VR? Also load the skip-helper folder: it's a tiny optional extension (why it's separate). YouTube Premium members don't need it.

🩹 Good to know

This is early access: it already works every day (I know because I've used it every day!), but it's still growing fast. Tested on Windows + Chrome + SteamVR + Valve Steam Frame (streamed from your PC) only; other headsets are untested, and running natively in the Frame's own browser is on the roadmap. StreamXR reads YouTube's own page, so when YouTube changes something, a feature can break for a while. See the Known issues.

🙏 Tell me what you think

Found a bug, or have an idea? Open an issue: there's a form for every kind of problem. Click 🥽 → Details → Copy details and paste it in. And if you make something cool in VR, share it with #StreamXR! 💚

Free and open source, forever. No paywalls, no ads, no "pro" version.