Bigscreen

Bigscreen is an American virtual reality company founded in 2014 by CEO Darshan Shankar. It began as a social VR platform that lets people watch movies, play games, and use their computer together with friends in virtual rooms, and it has since become a hardware maker as well. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and operates as a remote-first team distributed across many cities and countries. It is venture-backed, with funding from True Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. The Bigscreen software platform launched in 2016 and has grown to more than 6 million users. It supports headsets on Steam (including Bigscreen Beyond, Valve Index, HTC Vive, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets) and the Meta Quest platform, and the company has partnered with major movie studios such as Paramount Pictures for content. In 2023 Bigscreen launched Bigscreen Beyond, which it describes as the world's smallest VR headset, designed to solve comfort and ergonomics problems in VR while pushing immersion and image quality. In 2025 it followed with Beyond 2, featuring next-generation optics, a wider field of view, and a lighter shell. According to the company, Beyond 2 became its most successful launch: on day one it sold as many headsets as the first Beyond did in its entire first quarter, and it now ships to homes on every continent. Bigscreen Beyond 2 is a PC VR headset built around SteamVR compatibility. It offers a 116° field of view, dual micro-OLED displays, per-eye adjustable IPD, eye tracking, dynamic foveated rendering, and a weight of just 107 grams, down from 127 grams for the original Beyond. The company emphasizes a modular comfort system and a new pancake optics design with edge-to-edge clarity, a large sweet spot, reduced lens glare, and improved brightness. Bigscreen positions itself at the intersection of social VR software and premium, lightweight PC VR hardware.

Bigscreen was founded in 2014 by Darshan Shankar, who serves as CEO. The company describes itself as a global team of developers passionate about virtual reality, and it has been remote from day one, with a team distributed across 14 cities and 6 countries and headquarters in Los Angeles, California. The Bigscreen platform launched in 2016 as a social VR application that lets people watch movies, play games, and use their computer in VR collaboratively with friends. It grew to more than 6 million users and supports headsets on Steam (Bigscreen Beyond, Valve Index, HTC Vive, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets) as well as the Meta Quest platform. The company has partnered with major movie studios such as Paramount Pictures. In 2023, Bigscreen moved into hardware with the launch of Bigscreen Beyond, which it calls the world's smallest VR headset. Beyond was developed to solve issues with comfort and ergonomics in VR while pushing the bounds of immersion and quality; the company reasoned that to deliver the best software experience in Bigscreen, it also had to build the best hardware. In 2025, Bigscreen launched Beyond 2, featuring next-generation optics, a wider field of view, and a lighter shell. According to the company, Beyond 2 became its most successful launch: on day one, it sold as many headsets as the first Beyond did in its entire first quarter, and it now ships to homes on every continent. Bigscreen is funded by venture capital firms True Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

• Bigscreen founded by Darshan Shankar.

• Bigscreen VR platform launches.

• Bigscreen Beyond, described as the world's smallest VR headset, launches.

• Bigscreen Beyond 2 launches with next-generation optics, wider field of view, and lighter shell.

Premium, ultra-lightweight PC VR hardware paired with a social VR software platform for watching movies and playing games with friends.

• Bigscreen VR platform

  Social VR application for watching movies, playing games, and using a computer with friends; launched 2016; over 6 million users.

• Bigscreen Beyond

  PC VR headset launched in 2023, described as the world's smallest VR headset; weighs 127 grams.

• Bigscreen Beyond 2

  PC VR headset launched in 2025; 116° field of view, dual micro-OLED displays, per-eye adjustable IPD, eye tracking, dynamic foveated rendering, 107 grams, SteamVR compatible.

1. 1Bigscreen Beyond 2 | The world's smallest VR headsetbigscreenvr.com
2. 2About Us · Bigscreenbigscreenvr.com
3. 3BigScreen, Inc. - Wikidatawikidata.org