What is Reddit's opinion of VR Player PRO?

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This. The problem is that the whole 360° video is squeezed into the regular square video format (the equirectangular mapping, i.e. a sphere is projected into a rectangle), and you are only [looking at about 1/15th of the video at any time](/r/GoogleCardboard/comments/3bczgy/360_4k_video_flying_a_drone_around_to_properly/cslvals). The remaining 93.3% are outside your field of view, which is obviously wasteful. If you'd like to get an impression how full resolution 360° video would look, you can [try hires dome videos. The European Space Organisation hosts a couple of spectacular space videos](/r/GoogleCardboard/comments/3bj2tt/one_of_the_best_planetarium_ive_ever_been_to/) from their observatories with up to 8192 * 8192 resolution. They also use a lower compression rate than YouTube, so you will not see the typical compression artifact.

The files are free, but the file sizes are huge, e.g. 298GB for the 32min long planetarium show "From Earth to the Universe". Your regular video players will not be able to handle it, you need something like the (very good) VR Player Pro, not sure if there are any free players available that can handle 360° video intended for dome projection.

And that's basically the dilemma. With the current technology, you get either giant file sizes that todays phones and internet connections don't handle well, or you get shitty resolutions. The best solution would be to only stream the part you are looking at (the asymmetrical mapping), but this comes with a number of problems too, so don't expect it anytime soon.

Get a Google Cardboard (you'll need one specifically for big phones), get VR Player, download the videos, and you're good to go!

Download something like VR Player, it supports what you want.

Then download a preview or something from this site (on the Cardboard buttons, but you don't actually need Cardboard) (also there's an entire site rip in torrents), choose Spherical projection from the app's settings and you're set!

I honestly found the paid VR Player the best: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stephanelx.vrplayer

Plays 2d, 3d(sbs), and 3d(tab/ou).

Has lots of controls to get the screen size just right, and can run videos off the network via es file explorer.

The other VR video players were buggy for me.

VR Player is a commercial app for Android/Cardboard, which you can use on [Gear VR with some tricks](/r/GoogleCardboard/comments/39oto8/official_360_youtube_video_google_cardboard/cs58da1). You'll have to download the videos and transfer them to the phone to play them with VR Player.

You have to grab the video first and save it.

Then you can play it on your phone using VR player, choosing full dome and 2D as main settings.

I saw the first show as well! In Birmingham's planetarium, and I was SO pissed off because they forgot to turn the lights off, and everything was washed out.

I'm eventually gonna make it straight, I guess.

My personal favourite is the show they played in Paris, two years ago, in the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie. I can't remember the title, but I remember I almost started CRYING. Such was the quality and immersion of that experience.

In Osaka, though, it was utterly disappointing.

I don't use premier, I use After Effects, and an Mpeg4 should be the same as an mp4. Anyways I made you a quick and dirty screen cast of how I do it but using AE, sorry, I don't use Premier but it should cover the basics. I'm using a Photoshphere I got from a random google search.

https://vid.me/rRgP

Basically it's: 1. Get JPG size. 2. Create your composition at that exact size on your video editor 3. Drag and drop your jpg and audio file 4. Determine the lenght of your video 5. Export as a h.264 mp4 file.

I use VR Player with the 2d settings and the Sphere projection and it works great.

The only thing you could do different is leave a little more canvas area on the top or bottom if you are planning on having a "black hole" on the top or bottom. But that's about it.

Hope it helps!

Edit: VR Player is doing the trick, but still struggling with audio.

So I guess I'm going to be re-encoding some files unless a savior comes my way with a better solution.

Hey I use this

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stephanelx.vrplayer

and put it on dome mode. It plays every file with headtracking

I wonder why you would change the aspect ratio though?

Also with a 360 resolution you wont have much fun.

You can try using handbrake https://handbrake.fr/ to convert it. 2000kbps oder 250KB/s should be fine for a 720p video if you put it on slow preset

I feel kind of dumb for not suggesting this earlier, but I found a simple solution: There is an "Enter URL" option on VR Player for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stephanelx.vrplayer). It costs money but it's dirt cheap and well worth it. Be sure to set your player shape to spherical before entering the URL. I tested it already and it plays fine, I just don't know what the highest resolution VR Player can stream from Youtube is yet.

https://deovr.com/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stephanelx.vrplayer

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.VaRs.VRPlayerPRO

Vnorama https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vathos.vr

If there is a better app for android (on playstore) , please do let me know

VR Player Pro - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stephanelx.vrplayer

3200x1600 / 60fps / 30 Mbps / 180° 3D video

you can't play this good quality through youtube

Im in the iOS ecosystem, but I saw that this was pretty highly rated:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stephanelx.vrplayer&hl=en

I suppose it depends on what exactly you want to watch. VR player (pro or free) can play full dome videos, these are usually very large and are most likely some documentary-like.

Cmoar Cinema (pro or demo) makes it like you're in a theater so you can watch any normal movie.

This blog follows the pro-releases in VR porn. (http://www.sexlikereal.com/)

Get a google cardboard (they are pretty cheap). (http://www.amazon.com/Cardboard-Valencia-Quality-Virtual-Reality/dp/B00LQ6ICJ8) If you have a compatible smart phone, you can watch the demo's from that blog on here. You will want to use the VR player app to view (it's $5, but has a free version https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stephanelx.vrplayer&hl=en) .

That's the cheapest way to get into VR.

i know some google video vr apps here here and here

This is a music app for VK files. I'm talking about a virtual reality (VR) player for video... Like this VR Player Google Play