flaky, unintuitive, and hard to use. – Mobile VR Station® Review

I have Google Cardboard and iPhone X. Since I got this app yesterday all I have been doing is fiddling around for hours, getting utterly counterintuitive results. I wanted to use it to watch regular movies while laying down in bed. Getting the basic screen and icons to even be reasonably visible and at a normal “distance” took hours of tooling about in settings by itself. The default settings based on the QR scan were awful, the screen looked far away and all text/icons were unreadable. Eventually I kinda fixed that after a LOT of experimentation. Importing files was next, and it is ... eh ... it will only accept MP4 video files (no MKV) and they are not organized intuitively. At first I couldn’t even find them because they aren’t where you would expect and there are too many folders. Finally thought I had things set, laid down to actually watch a movie .... poof, my head is too far back laying down, and I’m staring at the virtual theater ceiling. So I adjust the viewing angle to 90/ceiling ... and now I’m staring at the back of the fake “theater”, chairs behind me and the projection booth. Super. I press the button to center the view (which only even registers in the app like 5% of the time) and I’m staring at the screen again, but the movie is playing sideways now, stretched out. There was also a few tries where the whole screen was tilted 45 degrees leftwards for some reason, maybe something to do with the magnetometer setting. Nothing is intuitive or clear, and the in-screen commands that you activate by staring at them or pressing the button rarely seem to work. Half the time you can’t even find them because they appear in some weirdly out of the way place and you have to twist your head around like you’re in The Exorcist just to find them. Then they reposition further away again. They always seem to be too big or too far away, and adjusting various settings rarely does what you expect the adjustment to do. The app seems well intended but it is a complete nightmare to use or try to set up for even something as simple as watching a 2d movie. I can’t really recommend it.
Review by All names taken. on Mobile VR Station®.