If you aren’t too bothered with bugs, you can download the nightly build yourself and use it to cast to your Chromecast. The release date for a stable build of version 3.0 hasn’t been given yet and for all we know it might not drop until the end of this year (or even early next year) but VLC is indeed adding support for the Chromecast just as it promised. The stable version of VLC still doesn’t support casting to the Chromecast but support for it has been spotted in the nightly builds of VLC 3.0.
Since February of 2015, VLC has promised to add support for Chromecast but the feature has yet to be implemented.
