Any good solution for 180 video?

[AaronTYZ]

360 video now well supported by framework, but if 180 video is played, two same 180 video will be displayed within tag "Viro360Video".
The spliced lines between two images were annoying.Any good solution for this, how can I replace one with a 180 image?

[manbod]

Hi AaronTYZ,
Currently we do not support 180 video. What are the dimensions (resolution) of this video? One way I can think of would be to rely on video editing to make the 180 video dimensions equivalent for a 360 video, and filing the unwanted 180 part of the video with whatever image you wanted to appear in place of the second video.

[newbot23]

Hi @manbod,
would you please tell us whether the 180° video player is part of your roadmap? If yes, could you please tell us when it is planned to be released? Thanks a lot.
Regards,
newbot23

[dam00n]

@newbot23 we can add this to our backlog. Will update this issue once we have a timeframe. It might be a couple months because the next couple releases are pretty packed and we need to evaluate this feature. Do you have a sample 180 video you can send us that we can use as testing ([email protected])? Also, what cameras are you using to take 180 video just so we can research more.

[dam00n]

We added support for video material textures in the latest release of ViroReact (v2.5.1). For 180 videos you might be able to create a 3D object that is a half sphere and then use the video texture to show the video on the sphere. -> https://docs.viromedia.com/docs/viromaterialvideo

Release notes and upgrade instructions here -> https://docs.viromedia.com/docs/releases

[newbot23]

@dam00n
Thanks for the update. I've got the information regarding the camera that is going to be used: http://www.z-cam.com/180-vr-camera-k1-pro/
Here is some information regarding the VR180 format: https://vr.google.com/vr180/
There is some shows on YT in VR180 (https://www.blog.google/products/google-vr/watch-live-performances-fader-fort-sxsw-vr180/)

My understanding is that it is not yet possible to have VR and 3d video the same time right now? So the video texture that we will use on the half sphere is a 2d texture?

[dam00n]

Thanks for the additional info. We do support stereoscopic images and video (see stereo mode under ViroVideo or ViroImage). I think that is what Google means when they say 3D. So you should be able to play your 180 video via the texture.