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CONTRABAND VR Cinema
A theatrical experience with friends, from home.
Put on your Quest headset and step into a real cinema with a real audience, watching the same film at the same moment together. Nobody pauses and nobody skips ahead. When the credits roll, you vote on what screens next. This is what going to the movies used to feel like. This is Virtual Cinema.
I built CONTRABAND because I enjoy watching movies, and lately have been enjoying some of the old movies on my VR headset. And it is amazing how close the experience is, to going to a real theatre.
CONTRABAND is a scheduled, ticketed VR cinema running inside a Meta Quest headset. You walk into a lobby, find your seat, and watch a film with a real audience at a set time. Nobody pauses. Nobody skips ahead. When the film ends, you vote on what screens next.
Two problems we are trying to solve:
For audiences - streaming gave us convenience and took away the ritual. The shared moment of watching something together, in the dark, at the same time, is what made cinema special. CONTRABAND brings that back, and makes it possible with people who are not even in the same city as you.
For filmmakers - independent and AI-made films have no real distribution home. Distributors won't touch them, theatres won't book them, and YouTube pays $30 for a thousand views. CONTRABAND gives them a scheduled screening, a real audience, and direct ticket revenue via Stripe.
We just launched. The Quest app is live and our first public screenings are coming up.
Would love your feedback, your votes, and your honest questions. Happy to answer everything.
About CONTRABAND VR Cinema on Product Hunt
“A theatrical experience with friends, from home.”
CONTRABAND VR Cinema was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 32 upvotes and 16 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Put on your Quest headset and step into a real cinema with a real audience, watching the same film at the same moment together. Nobody pauses and nobody skips ahead. When the credits roll, you vote on what screens next. This is what going to the movies used to feel like. This is Virtual Cinema.
On the analytics side, CONTRABAND VR Cinema competes within Virtual Reality and Movies — topics that collectively have 61.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how CONTRABAND VR Cinema performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted CONTRABAND VR Cinema?
CONTRABAND VR Cinema was hunted by Kevin William David. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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I built CONTRABAND because I enjoy watching movies, and lately have been enjoying some of the old movies on my VR headset. And it is amazing how close the experience is, to going to a real theatre.
CONTRABAND is a scheduled, ticketed VR cinema running inside a Meta Quest headset. You walk into a lobby, find your seat, and watch a film with a real audience at a set time. Nobody pauses. Nobody skips ahead. When the film ends, you vote on what screens next.
Two problems we are trying to solve:
For audiences - streaming gave us convenience and took away the ritual. The shared moment of watching something together, in the dark, at the same time, is what made cinema special. CONTRABAND brings that back, and makes it possible with people who are not even in the same city as you.
For filmmakers - independent and AI-made films have no real distribution home. Distributors won't touch them, theatres won't book them, and YouTube pays $30 for a thousand views. CONTRABAND gives them a scheduled screening, a real audience, and direct ticket revenue via Stripe.
We just launched. The Quest app is live and our first public screenings are coming up.
Would love your feedback, your votes, and your honest questions. Happy to answer everything.