The YouTube Virtual Movie Theatre is a means to bridge more users to join the ever-growing virtual reality fan-base. With the Virtual Movie Theatre for Android, which is available for everyone as of today, comes a new and awesome feature that plans to immerse the audience into the VR medium even more.

Now, users can experience 3D videos while streaming them on YouTube – via Google’s Cardboard.

This isn’t the first time YouTube has meddled with 3D videos. At the dawn of 2015, it introduced support for 360-degree vids on their platform. YouTube’s entire library is up for grabs to whomever wishes to stream videos in VR straight to their Google Cardboard – read, every user-uploaded content available.

To use YouTube’s new Virtual Movie Theatre feature, just tap on the Cardboard option and slide your smartphone into the headset so it can start streaming. The video you’ll be watching is going to be presented in the manner of a movie theatre. It will adjust accordingly to your position.

YouTube brags that it has a massive amount of 360-degree videos. Ranging from incredible concert experiences, movie trailers, short walks in the nature – read, a day at the beach, a lovely stroll in the forest and so on.

Basically, everything that the world has to offer can come right to your uhm, face, I guess.

These video techniques that YouTube uses, the company claims, are akin to how an individual, just like yourself, perceives his, or hers, surroundings. If an object is far far away, then it will appear so. If sound is coming from within a box, then it will be perceived as muffled.

YouTube has its own VR curated video playlist filled with world jumps, movie trailers – The Hunger Games; a music video – Waiting for Love by Avicci; and, one of my personal favourites, walking inside Minecraft.

Yet, unfortunately, these new features are only available for users that have an Android smartphone. The company has announced that it will roll their VR experiences to the iOS medium soon – but we don’t have an exact date.

Considering that there are more than 1 million Google Cardboard owners, we should expect more VR experiences from YouTube.

Guess what? The New York Times is shipping 1.3. million Google Cardboard headsets during this weekend because their new VR documentary, called The Displaced, is about to make its big début.

This opens up another door – one for advertisers. Meaning that from an economic point of view, VR is a potentially huge market, so it makes sense for big tech companies to pump cash into content creation. The more companies willing do create high-quality content, the better the competition.

Things are shaping nicely for virtual reality – also with the help of the new YouTube Virtual Movie Theatre platform.

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