A screen, not a window
It starts 0.8 m in front of you at standing height. Move your head and it does not move. Its aspect follows the clip, so a portrait video becomes a portrait screen — it is never stretched to fit.
Meta Quest 3 / 3Sv1.0.0
A screen for video that lives in your room.
Aera puts a real screen into your space and plays video on it. You grab it, move it, size it and turn it with the controllers — and it stays put when you walk away.
Submitted 22 September 2026 and awaiting review — it takes a day or two to appear in the store.
Quest 3 / 3Sthe headsets it runs on
9 MBno account, no ads, no analytics
Autothe right mode for every clip
3Da screen in your room, not an Android screen
What you get
The whole point is the screen.
Every other VR player gives you a picture. Aera gives you a screen — with position, size and orientation of its own, living in the room you are standing in.
WebDAV and local files
Point it at a server on your own LAN over plain HTTP, or browse your own storage. You can also “Open with” a video from Gallery or Files and land straight in VR. There is no account and no signup.
The formats people actually own
Equirectangular and half-dome panoramas, Oculus stereo fisheye, side-by-side, over-under and half-resolution side-by-side. It reads the container and the filename and picks the right projection itself.
Display modes
It figures the clip out.
Every mode is one tap in the spatial panel. Defaults live in Settings, and the play bar is a per-clip override.
Flat screen
The default. Any ordinary video on a screen you can grab and move.
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360° and 180°
Panoramas wrap around you. Look wherever you like, and turn with the thumbstick.
360°180°
Fisheye VR
Two-lens VR clips, as a surround view. The viewing angle is adjustable, 180° to 220°.
Surround
Stereo 3D
Side by side, top and bottom, and half-width side by side — with the right image in each eye.
Side by sideTop & bottomHalf width
Fisheye is a dome, not 360°.
A two-lens rig has nothing behind your head, so the back of the dome is empty rather than stretched — and from this version it is transparent, so you see your real room. A true 360° clip covers everything and stays solid on purpose.
Passthrough
The video sits in your room.
Turn the background off and the picture becomes part of the space around you — it stays where you left it when you step aside.
Green and magenta screens
Clips shot in front of a flat-coloured background have that background removed for you, with dials for how far to remove it and how soft to make the edge.
Alpha clips just work
Sources that already carry their transparency are used as they come — nothing to configure, and they combine with any of the options above.
Your room behind it
Wherever the picture is transparent, your real room shows through, so a clip can sit against your wall and stay there while you walk past.
Interaction
Designed for hands that do not look at controls.
Right controller unless you say otherwise. The screen never follows your head.
A
Play / pause. In an image gallery, the previous image. B is the next one.
Trigger
Drag the screen — it follows your hand while held. Pressed on empty space it plays or pauses.
TriggerTrigger
Double-click on empty space to switch the panel on and off, so it is out of the way while you watch.
Stick Y
Scale the screen, from 0.1× to 8×.
Stick X
In panorama modes, rotate the view around the world.
Grip
Rotate the screen 90° clockwise.
Play/pause is on A, not the trigger. The trigger is kept for dragging, because on Quest it loses contact too easily to trust as a click.
Privacy
Nothing leaves the headset.
No account. No analytics. No ads. No third-party SDK of any kind.
- ✓The only servers it contacts are the WebDAV servers you add yourself.
- ✓Nothing is uploaded, and no media leaves the device.
- ✓No analytics, no usage telemetry, no crash reporting.
- ✓No advertising and no tracking across apps.
- ✓No account, no cloud sync, no media library.
- ✓WebDAV credentials are stored in plain text, in the app’s private storage only.
Read the full policy
Privacy Policy — what you can enter, where it goes, and what this app does not do.
Last updated 22 September 2026. Questions go to canyelengxin@163.com.
Out of scope
What is deliberately missing.
Not planned: spatial audio, HDR, subtitles, several screens at once, a media library, accounts, cloud sync and recommendations.
Always yours: your video never leaves your device, and the app asks for nothing it cannot work without.