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user3620531
user3620531

Reputation: 55

Play 180 degree videos on samsung gear vr

I am starting a new business which will allow users to download videos and watch them through the Samsung Gear VR.

My videos are 3d 180 degrees using the Gopro Hero3+ duel system.

Now I can get my video to play as a 360 by naming is filename_360.mp4

The gearVR recognises this and makes it stretch to 360, however I cannot get it to work and only show 180 degrees.

I have downloaded a video from another website which has 180 degrees vision, and when you look around you can see 180 degrees pitch black. So somehow they have managed to trick the gearvr into it being 360, but with only 180 degree of content present.

Does anyone know how I can achieve this ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 14556

Answers (3)

Bill
Bill

Reputation: 1

It's really easy. It's not the name of the file, but the name of the folder. In new gear vr app v.1.065, you can just simply put the file into a folder name 360videos and it's done. But I not recommend it, because it just dtretch 180 degree video into 360 pano mode making eveyone looks ugly wide and fat. Are you sure you eant this? Hahaha!

Upvotes: 0

Pooria
Pooria

Reputation: 1

Just download moon vr player app from oculus. Its the only app i found that supports 180 videos. And have an interesting future...the "air view" that gives you the option to just download videos on your PC and watch them through VR with wifi instead of copping on you phone. Hope that works for you

Upvotes: 0

reden
reden

Reputation: 1003

Here's another thread on the subject: https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/23890/how-to-play-180-3d-video

If changing the name of the video doesn't work, there is of course the 'ugly' solution of adding enough padding around your video so that it appears 180 even though it's 360.

Upvotes: 1

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