Be among the first to beta-test Virtual Reality Trivia Nights

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Read our most recent blog post about how virtual reality is redefining the trivia night communities online. Using platforms such as bigscreenvr.com, possibilities are endless for trivia hosts.

Feel free to contact our support team if you have any questions regarding an event using Virtual Reality. We have already hosted parties for up to 12 people online at once in fun environments, able to play interactive games, or even "pub style" trivia nights. VR allows us to socialize together at one location, or anywhere else in the world. If we are at the point where playing Ping Pong in Virtual Reality is so immersive, you are sweating. The sky is the limit. Not literally. Literally, you could go much further than the sky, and we do quite regularly.

Host trivia for hundreds or even thousands of fans at once with online streaming.

Online streaming services such as Twitch.tv and Youtube.com are great resources for bringing your audience in front of you in a whole new way. Take advantage of this new technology. It also works great with our newest game Triv101, a "Survey Style" trivia game where teams count down to Zero by answering the Top 3 popular answers and go for a Single, or Triple Points. New features allow hosts to choose starting target number, allow for limited or unlimited question and answer generating. Also, tell your players if they need to go "exactly" out to win!

We understand the growing need for physical distancing and are now offering Free Premium Triv101 service for Online Streaming.

Two different things people mean by "virtual trivia"

It is worth separating them, because they need completely different setups and suit completely different groups.

Trivia in virtual reality means everyone puts on a headset and meets in a shared virtual room. Platforms like Bigscreen let a group sit together in a space, watch the same screen and talk as if they were in the same room. We have hosted parties for up to a dozen people this way. It is genuinely immersive and it is the closest thing to being in a room together — but it has a hard ceiling, because everyone needs a headset.

Streamed trivia means the host runs the show to a camera and the audience plays along from wherever they are, over Twitch or YouTube. There is no headset and no ceiling: the same show works for twenty people or several thousand. What you give up is the feeling of sharing a room.

For a distributed team of ten, VR is the more memorable option. For a company all-hands, streaming is the only one that works.

What a VR trivia night needs

A headset per player. This is the real constraint. Groups that already own headsets are a natural fit; groups that would need to buy them are usually better served by streaming.
A small group. Around a dozen is where these work best — large enough for teams, small enough that the conversation does not collapse into people talking over each other.
A shared platform. Everyone needs to be in the same virtual space, so the group has to agree on the platform before the night.

What a streamed trivia night needs

Far less, which is the point. The host handles the broadcast; your players need a screen and a way to submit answers. Twitch and YouTube both work, and the choice between them usually comes down to where your audience already is rather than to any technical difference.

This is also the format that scales to a genuine crowd. Hosting for hundreds or thousands of people at once is a streaming problem, not a VR one.

Triv 101 works well remotely

Our survey-style game Triv 101 suits both setups better than standard trivia does. Teams count down to zero by naming the top three most popular answers to a survey prompt, going for a Single or Triple Points — so there is no single correct answer to be looked up, which removes the main problem with remote trivia. Nobody can quietly search their way to a win.

Hosts can set the starting target number and choose limited or unlimited question generation, so the game can be sized to fit the time you actually have. It runs from one screen, which is exactly what you want when that screen is being shared or streamed.

Ask us first

Virtual events have more ways to go wrong than in-person ones, and most of them are decided before the night: group size, platform, and whether everyone can actually get into the same space. Tell us what your group has access to and we will tell you which of these two formats fits — or whether an in-person show is the better call after all.