Meta, Universal Pictures (NBCUniversal) & Blumhouse
Blumhouse Enhanced Cinema - Powered By HISPlayer
Experience a New Dimension of Horror With Blumhouse Enhanced Cinema.
Collaborating with Meta, Blumhouse, Universal Pictures, Nexus Studios, and HISPlayer to develop Blumhouse Enhanced Cinema, a virtual reality home cinema experience. The app, available exclusively to Meta Quest, features iconic Blumhouse movies such as M3GAN and The Black Phone with enhanced visual effects that spill out from the screen into the viewer’s space. The experience delivers more of the suspense, dread, and terror audiences love.
Blumhouse has been redefining horror for a generation, and HISPlayer was thrilled to power these iconic movies with our most advanced Unity Meta Quest Video Player in the world and help usher in a new era of immersive horror. Bringing the experience to life, we implemented flawless video playback synchronization with immersive effects (VFX) and Dolby Atmos spatial sound so viewers feel the cinema surrounds them.
Announced at Connect 2025, Blumhouse Enhanced Cinema lets Quest 3 and Quest 3S owners in the US rent and watch M3GAN and The Black Phone with immersive effects that “spill from the screen” and Dolby Atmos spatial audio.
Now you can watch M3GAN in the woods as your walls fall away and reveal a dark, misty forest. You’ll be shielding your face as shattered glass flies off the screen, and bracing for impact as explosions fill your room. From chilling ambient effects to the eerie presence of characters close by, this is horror that’s made to be felt.
Experience it on Meta Horizon Store Here.
Key highlights:
- Mixed reality (MR) and virtual reality (VR) to integrate the movie experience into the user’s physical environment, regardless of the room’s size, position, and light levels
- Premium content protected with the highest-security Widevine Level 1 DRM
- Screen-breaking spatial effects: High-intensity moments that appear to emerge from the virtual screen into the user’s room
- Passthrough video playback: consistent XR cinema experience between users, no matter their environment
- Dolby Atmos: 3D spatial sound
- Multistream: Streaming high-fidelity, synchronized multiple videos
About HISPlayer:
HISPlayer is the premium video streaming Player SDK for Unity, Unreal Engine, and Meta Spatial SDK games and apps. Its technology is a combination of hardware-optimized media player software with advanced rendering software, creating a unique product that allows the inclusion of premium video streaming inside interactive and immersive 3D applications. HISPlayer is available for Android, iOS, WebGL, Windows, MacOS, as well as for the most popular VR/AR headsets and AI glasses (Meta Quest, HTC, Galaxy XR, Pico, Xreal, Apple Vision Pro, and more).