A VR media platform built for watching your content, your way.
Mobile VR Station is a virtual reality media player and content platform I’ve been developing under M-GATE Labs since the early days of consumer VR.
It began as an iOS application built around phone-based VR headsets and evolved through multiple generations of VR hardware into a standalone Meta Quest application. Along the way, the project has grown from a VR video player into a broader environment for managing, accessing, and viewing personal media in virtual reality.
Mobile VR Station supports flat, 180°, 360°, and stereoscopic media, with multiple virtual environments, viewing modes, content sources, file-management tools, and extensive customization.
5.2M+ lifetime installs & downloads
Built for VR, Not Just Video Playback
Mobile VR Station has evolved alongside VR itself.
The original version was developed for iPhone-based VR. Later versions explored Android and standalone headsets, eventually leading to the current Meta Quest edition.
Rather than treating VR as a flat media player placed inside a headset, Mobile VR Station was built around VR-native interaction. Content browsing, settings, media controls, environments, and other tools can be accessed and operated from within VR.
The architecture has been repeatedly rebuilt as the hardware changed—from phone-based viewers to standalone 6DoF headsets—while preserving the same basic goal: give users flexible control over how and where they experience their own media.
Choose Your Edition
Meta Quest
The Meta Quest edition is the current standalone VR version of Mobile VR Station and represents the latest generation of the project.
Built specifically for standalone 6DoF VR, the Quest version provides an entirely in-headset experience for browsing, managing, configuring, and viewing media. It supports flat, curved, spherical, 180°, 360°, and stereoscopic viewing, along with virtual environments, custom environments, file management, network and local content sources, and extensive playback and display configuration.
Unlike the original phone-based versions of Mobile VR Station, the Quest edition was redesigned around tracked controllers and spatial interaction. Over time, its architecture has evolved into a collection of reusable VR systems for content navigation, settings, media presentation, environments, and other in-headset tools.
3.9 million installs on Meta Quest
Apple
Mobile VR Station — Ported Edition
The newer iOS edition, based on the modern Mobile VR Station architecture.
Mobile VR Station — Original Edition
The original iOS application that started Mobile VR Station. Highly customizable and preserved for users of the original platform.
Over 1.3 million downloads on iOS
Android
Two Android editions are available, including the legacy Cardboard-based version and a port of the newer application.
About the Project
Mobile VR Station is independently designed and developed by Michael Fuller under M-GATE Labs.
The project has been in continuous evolution across changing VR platforms and has served as both a commercial product and a long-running engineering playground for experimenting with VR interaction, media architecture, content management, localization, platform portability, and virtual environments.
Downloads & Installs
| Application | Stat |
| Meta Quest | 3.9 million installs 3.1 million lifetime active users |
| iOS | 1.3 million downloads |
| Android | 4k |
| Android (Ported) | 1k |
| iOS (Ported) | 18.5K installs |
Compare Editions
| Feature | iOS | iOS (Ported) | Android | Android (Ported) | Meta Quest |
| FTP | No | Upload, Download | Upload, Download, Stream | Upload, Download, Stream | |
| Photo Access | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes | Yes |
| Video Access | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes | Yes |
| UPNP/DLNA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| iXPand Drives | Limited | No | No | No | No |
| Dropbox | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Google Drive | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Hidden Folder | Yes | Internal Folder | No | Internal Folder | Internal Folder |
| Tour Support | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| VR Text Viewer | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Custom Backgrounds | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| 3D Backgrounds | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| File Management | Limited | Yes | Limited | Yes | Yes |
| View Modes | 2D, 3D | 2D, 3D | 2D, 3D | 2D, 3D | VR ONLY |
