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So maybe just make your own code by visually checking the parameters that seem right for you - which is how and why there are dozens of codes floating around in the first place. Get Sites in VR which comes with a nice interactive parameter editor.

It is far from easy to do it accurately without measuring equipment.

However, if you fine-tune your viewer settings by following these instructions using the Sites in VR app, then the last step lets you roughly estimate the FOV: if you start with a low FOV and gradually increase it, then at the point where new circles stop being visible (even around the corners), the number you can read in the middle of the image represents the FOV.

You might be wearing it wrong. You need to tighten the straps a fair bit so that it does not rest on your nose, but on your forehead. You should almost not feel the bottom part of the padding touch your face. I also recommend the profile tweaking utility built into Sites in VR.

And no, the Bobo doesn't have anywhere near 120°, and this has been discussed a lot on this sub. But neither do other headsets.

It's only specific applications, but Sites in VR has settings for chromatic correction, while Whispering Eons can be set to supersample.

I second the other suggestion: give up trying to find out the model and then a QR made for it, because even if you succeed, chances are the QR will be suboptimal anyway.

Instead, use the profile generator and if its own on-phone helper isn't good enough for you, I always recommend using the configuration utility found in Sites in VR to fine-tune the parameters.

I also suggest removing the magnet from your headset if possible. It's deprecated by Google as a control method, and may interfere with the magnetometers, which some apps/games use for better tracking. Get a Bluetooth controller instead.

My k1 is closer to easy_pie's than to 3015's, i.e. around 0.30, while k2 can stay between 0 (although Google says it shouldn't be 0) and no more than 0.05. Other parameters I've found are similar to 3015's. I've additionally added 65° FOV in all directions, instead of the default 50° (in Advanced).

My full profile can be loaded using http://google.com/cardboard/cfg?p=CgNMakwSEExqTCdzIFZpcnRvYmEgWDUdCtcjPSWuR2E9KhAAAIJCAACCQgAAgkIAAIJCWAA146UbPToImpmZPgrXIz1QAGAD

I've mainly used the calibration utility that's built into Sites in VR to determine my parameters. It's particularly effective for the k1 parameter.

Awesome! It does work, thanks! (android 4.1.1)

The email button doesnt work for me, but that doesn't really matter, as long as the core functionality works.

If you do want feature suggestions, it would be cool to have:

• "Copy to text" option (that copies all the information to the clipboard, so I can paste it in a text file to save/compare the info)
• "Copy to profile generator" option (to insert the parameters into google's viewer profile generator, so we can use that data as a starting point to customize our own profile)
• "Change viewer" option (so I can scan a new qr code and look at those parameters. possibly with the alternate option of loading a file with saved parameters, to eliminate the need for printing qr codes)
• "Viewer comparison" option (to load/show multiple viewer profile parameters simultaneously, to compare the data)
• "Saved viewer profiles" (the Sites in VR app does it better than any other app I've seen. it saves all the profiles you've scanned, with names and icons, so you can just click one to load that profile)
• Modifying/Creating viewer profiles directly within the app (this would be a much bigger modification, but would be sweet)

But if not, no prob. It's great to just have the ability to view current parameters.

There have been many discussions on what headsets are best in r/GoogleCardboard and I guess also here. In all likelihood, you don't want something "very, very similar" to actual Google Cardboard, as that sucks. You want a better headset, with better lenses, better materials, better padding, etc. Headsets that are actually approved by Google under the "Cardboard" branding must not have headstraps; they did this because they don't expect the experience to be reasonable (or perhaps even safe) except for very short amount of time, but anyone who's used these headsets would tell you that without headstraps, you don't get too far.

I have a BoboVR Z4 and a Mojing S1, and I found the latter especially impressive, but only if your phone fits in it, while the former is very well-known and praised for all its features, but at the same time, the lenses make for a smaller FOV than the S1.

This site has a nice comparison where many headsets are tested for their optical properties. There are also other concerns, but that could be a start. Sites in VR itself is also a good app to showcase static VR and evaluate the picture quality of a given setup.

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The apps i am trying also gave me option to set my viewer, like this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.ercangigi.sitesin3d which also have daydream mode which works fine even controller is working in this app, but original daydream and YouTube vr are the only one not working. I really don't know what is wrong with those apps

Redmi note 5 plus, i know it's not on the list but i can download apps from Play Store without any issues, controller pairs too and i can even go into daydream scene but can only see distorted image.

So i have tried

1. Change display items size from system settings : nothing changes
2. Used VR sites app : working perfectly
3. Used VAR vr player: working perfectly
4. Created custom profile via Sites in VR app and imported into daydream app : still distortion.

Choosing Daydream 2017 in sites in VR app results in perfect outcome, don't know why the heck it's not working in Official app.

This is solved by creating a good Cardboard profile to use as a QR code, not by a "free download".

Anyway, the app Sites in VR has tools in its settings to help you create a profile like that.

If you have difficulties creating a profile, be more specific. There may already be a good profile for your headset here.

Sites in VR is another option. Its settings have always been my calibration system of choice. Also if you're using some random QR code for your BoboVR, just try theirs and see if it helps (it's at the bottom of the page).

You can extract the parameters. I am not sure how to calculate the exact values from them because my maths aren't great, but maybe yours are better... but I can tell you how to see the parameters: if you scan the QR code as a URL, using any barcode scanner instead of the Cardboard setup, it will be a goo.gl address, I think, which will resolve to something that you can input into https://vr.google.com/cardboard/viewerprofilegenerator/ after you click "Save or load viewer parameters". Alternatively, scan it from within Sites in VR, and then if you try to customize it, you will see its parameters.

No, not all Cardboard-based VR feels like that. Yes, you can have a "3D effect" (stereoscopic vision). No, without gyroscopes it will never actually be VR, since moving your head around will have no effect (except vertically, with some apps), and it will always feel a bit like looking through binoculars.

Videos can look messed up and "flat" for a variety of reasons. I think you should try something else instead to make sure this can work at all for you. Sites in VR is a free app that has high-resolution photospheres, some of which are stereoscopic, and which works well and comes with its own headset adjustments in addition to the standard Cardboard "QR code", which is often completely wrong for some headset; in addition, it can work without gyroscopes because it lets you optionally move by tilting your head (which is detected with accelerometers, present in virtuallyl all phones, unlike gyroscopes).

If you try it, make sure to pick a scene that has an icon showing stereo glasses, as those are the stereoscopic photospheres. If the geometry looks wrong and the 3D effect isn't convincingly there, go into the app's VR settings and tentatively adjust everything using the built-in feedback.

0.30 is pretty much correct for k1 according to every time I've tested it with Sites in 3D's utility, although it automatically changes to other values if I change other parameters, so I guess they're not quite independent... all this stuff is not altogether easy to wrap my head around, not knowing the maths behind it.

One program with a lot of impressive (but not stereoscopic, sadly) photospheres is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.ercangigi.sitesin3d which I additionally like because it comes with a useful calibration utility to get the least distortion in your headset (the Google one doesn't work for me, and it really changes immersion a lot to have a properly adjusted view).

Use the tweaker in the Sites in VR app to create your own profile / QR code. It is much more usable than Google's thing.

Yes but still no improvement. Btw there is an app named Sites in Vr (Both for iOS and Android). You can read the paper from here .

It allows creating a Qr code for specific measurements. For now i can do that for quick solution. Good luck with that.

I think the reason it's missing many headsets is that their budget is limited as they offer the Sites in VR app for free. It would be nice if reviewers or others with unneeded extra headsets could offer them for testing, or some of the manufacturers got the site on their radar and offered samples or discounts as they sometimes do with reviewers.

For now, the headsets listed are not many, but I have used the application for a long time and it has been both the one with the best-executed panoramic pictures I've seen, and the handiest for tweaking Cardboard profiles, as it comes with a built-in editor with more useful visual feedback than Google's one. I think several people on this subreddit use the BoboVR profile I made, and I made it using that (although I've now learned some of the things were still quite wrong and only worked "accidentally").

FWIW, another headset will likely soon be listed on the site after I bought it and managed to tempt u/efgigi enough to test it...

A couple of things could be the issue: bad QR code AND/OR wrong reported physical screen DPI / PPI from your phone.

The SitesInVR app has a manual calibration feature that is reported to allow you to create a new QR code.

Alternatively, there is the official QR code generator from Google, which requires a computer and has a lot less hand-holding.

Lastly Hypergridbusiness has a collection of user-submitted custom codes that might work better than the default. Find your viewer in the list, or one that looks exactly the same (there are a lot of clones and minor variants).

A QR code you make yourself is likely going to be better, but it does take some time and effort to make one. If your IPD is very high or very low and you have a viewer with an adjustable IPD is is definitely worth the time.

Adjusting the physical reported screen DPI is a little more complicated, so try the QR code stuff first. Although the QR code uses the DPI to create the “proper” lens distortion. Used to be the case you’d need to root and edit your build.prop, I think it’s easier now though.

I strongly recommend using the Sites in VR app: http://www.sitesinvr.com/

It's free for both iOS (https://itunes.apple.com/tr/app/3d-mekanlar/id625987419?ls=1&mt=8) and Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.ercangigi.sitesin3d).

If you do create a QR Code, I'd appreciate it if someone would send it to me, so I can add it to my list, making life a bit easier for other people who need it. Thanks! My email is .

(I've been getting a lot of requests for this code lately, and I don't have one of these headsets to make a code with.)

The main pointer I think you should keep in mind is the Sites in VR instructions. Even if it feels a bit TL;DR, just get the Sites in VR app anyway and use its viewer setup in the settings even without reading that guide in full first, just skim it: it is reasonably intuitive and I find most of its visual guides better to get accurate results than Google's own profile generator, and then you can verify your result more quickly since you can watch any of the panoramas in the app, which are shot in high quality and so any blur you see will be due to your headset/phone, never really to the app.