Hulu VR app lets you watch shows in a virtual living room with your virtual friends

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Hulu VR app lets you watch shows in a virtual living room with your virtual friends
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While some traditional media players rush out virtual reality (http://mashable.com/category/virtual-reality?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) apps in slapdash fashion, hoping to ride the trend with me-too, lackluster efforts, Hulu's attempts are actually promising.*

On Wednesday, the company released an update to its mobile VR app for the Gear VR and its desktop app for the Oculus Rift, both of which make watching Hulu (http://mashable.com/category/hulu/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) content in VR even more immersive.

SEE ALSO: Oculus Rift gets voice-controlled search in VR (http://mashable.com/2017/02/08/oculus-rift-voice-search/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)


**w you can use your Oculus Avatars on both the Gear VR (http://mashable.com/category/gear-vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) and the Rift to join friends in Oculus Rooms (http://mashable.com/2017/01/23/facebook-oculus-rooms-vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) to watch Hulu content. Although Oculus Avatars on the Oculus Rift (http://mashable.com/category/oculus-rift/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) are well rendered and highly customizable, at this point, there's **t a lot you can do with them.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/02/08/hulu-vr-app-oculus-avatars-oculus-touch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)

More about Hulu Vr (http://mashable.com/category/hulu-vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Hulu (http://mashable.com/category/hulu/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Oculus Rooms (http://mashable.com/category/oculus-rooms/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Oculus Avatars (http://mashable.com/category/oculus-avatars/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Samsung Gear Vr (http://mashable.com/category/samsung-gear-vr/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/F79usY9g5Yc