Tips and tricks

The official guide to get the best experience possible out of this application.

Important remark

This guide is severely out-dated. Most of the information provided here is still correct, but we’ve added support for LOTS of new features. We’ve been overwhelmed with the release tasks, but now that the update is here, we are going to update this page and add lots of tips and tricks. You should be able to find this page in your bookmarks, so make sure you check it later. Sorry for the inconvenience, please bear with us 🙂

For now, here’s a quick summary of some of the new features:

• Added support for 3-buttons earphones, bluetooth headsets and using another Android phone as a remote.
• Improved calibration.
• Improved support for bluetooth controllers and other already supported input devices.

Down from here is the old documentation (which still works).

Input devices

For version 0.8, following are the main input devices you can use:

• Gyroscope sensor and earphones with media button.
• Mouse.
• Keyboard and mouse combo.
• Bluetooth remote.

Calibration

1. Go to “More Settings” menu,
2. Adjust the gyroscope sensitivity to make the cursor move faster or slower (more stable).

3. Adjust the size of top/bottom/left/right empty spaces around your page, the distance between the two eyes to get the ideal configuration for your cardboard or VR glasses for optimum VR/3D experience. Like in this example:
   
   Also adjust the “scale” to change how much content can fit in the same screen. Notice the difference in this example:
   

Scrolling

• You can perform continuous scrolling by dragging to the top/bottom of the screen. Simply click on your media button and move your head down/up while pressing the media button:
  
• If you have a bluetooth VR controller, use the mouse mode (press “Fn + D”). You can drag continuously by holding left click down and using the analogue stick.

Bookmarks

• If you are surfing any web page and want to bookmark it, go to “More settings” menu and click “Add to bookmarks”.
• When you open a new empty tab, all your bookmarks will be listed there.
• Add your frequently visited websites to bookmarks for easier navigation :).

Miscellaneous

• Play stereoscopic side by side videos in the non-VR mode and fix their aspect ratios using the full screen actions menu.
• Long click zoom buttons to change text size.
• A basic ad pop up blocking is in place to give you less hassle while browsing.
• You can have multiple tabs. Use them!
• Play HTML5 games!
• Sign up for a Cloud 9 IDE account. Happy coding!
• Install X11VNC and connect to your remote machine using NOVNC.
• Install a local server, like Palapa Web-server and install your tools. Now, control everything from the browser.
• Watch NetFlix and other video streaming services (if you have Android 5+ and hardware DRM support). Note: we’ve put some time into this, but we never actually had the chance to test it, and nobody reported it working 🙁
• Follow us on Facebook, where we’ll be sharing promo-codes from time to time if Allah wills.

Umm… That’s it for now! More to come later if Allah wills 🙂