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 ?
Answer
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.