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How to record 360 videos of your VR experiences

The Ghost Howls

In the best-case scenario, you are the developer of the VR experience, and you want to shoot a 360° video of your own game for promotional purposes. If you are a Unity developer like me, you can use the awesome Unity Recorder package to shoot videos of your experience, both 2D videos and 360 videos.

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How to Direct 360° Video

VRScout

Google’s YouTube Creator Academy shows us the finer points in 360° video production. Last year Google’s YouTube Creator Academy gave us the low-down on some of the biggest mistakes made while shooting in 360° with the video How Not To Shoot 360° Video.

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Facebook Adds 4K 360 Video Streaming Support

VRScout

Facebook announced a slew of new updates to its 360 live platform today, stepping up the features available to both creators and viewers. Since bringing live 360 video to pages and profiles back in March , we’ve seen a few VR videos pop up in our feed, but were always unsatisfied with the resolution.

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HTC’s ‘6DOF Lite’ Mode Adds Volumetric Depth To 360 Video

VRScout

.” The company has instead focused its efforts on VR180, favoring its ability for longer form work at higher resolutions than 360-degree content. . The post HTC’s ‘6DOF Lite’ Mode Adds Volumetric Depth To 360 Video appeared first on VRScout.

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New Unity Tools Bring Interactivity and Real-time CGI to 360 Video, Now in Beta

Road to VR

360 video combined with real-time CG and interactive elements was demonstrated on stage at today’s Vision VR/AR Summit 2017 keynote. Using two layers of video with 3D elements in between, it is a simple way of enhancing standard 360 video footage to make it interactive. Looking up, birds animate in the sky.

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‘Hallelujah’ Experience Bridges Gap Between 360 Video And VR

VRScout

The post ‘Hallelujah’ Experience Bridges Gap Between 360 Video And VR appeared first on VRScout. “It’s Lytro’s Light Field technology that enables 6DoF, so live action VR content in headset for the first time behaves as it does in the real world.”.

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‘YouTube VR’ Finally Comes to PC, Bringing the Platform’s 360 Videos to Vive, Rift, and Windows VR

Road to VR

For Vive and Rift users interested in watching some of the interesting 360 video content out there, it’s been frustrating to either need to download a bespoke app for each video, use an unofficial workaround, or simply not have any way of accessing the content at all.

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