ffejns Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 Brand new to Vive (love it) but I'm experiencing a frustration I am hoping the community of Vive owners can assist with. Please read carefully before replying, as I've tried many things suggested on the 'net. In short, I want to be able to go on YouTube and watch 360 degree and/or 3D video with my Vive. First, my problems with 360 degree video: I have downloaded a plethora of "video players" for Vive but they all just let me surf to YouTube on a 2D screen (in a 3D immersed environment) and play the video there. Even clicking "Full screen" only stretches it to the confines of the 2d "screen' Downloading the video with a YouTube downloader and playing it as a local video file with any of the players simply stretches a single 2D perspective all the way around (360 degrees), rather than playing the full video 360 degrees and letting me look around it. The most luck I've had is with the YouTube VR app which has no button labels on anything, doesn't let me backspace while typing a search, and is just generally buggy. Most 360 videos I get working are not in 3D, which kind of kills the immersion for me. I'm especially interested in music videos like "Show it 2 me" which I have downloaded via the Steam Store, but I don't know where to get more experiences like this! .. which brings me to my problems with 3d: I fully understand that a single video has to somehow contain left-eye & right-eye images in a single video and that there are different ways to accomplish this I don't know the correct terminology, but there seems to be the whole colour-filtered way, stacking the two eye-views above & below each other, and stacking the views next to one another What I haven't found is a way to CONSUME this content, switch between those 3 schemes, and experience 3d from ONLINE STREAMED content If I want to have downloaded local files, I've been led to believe this would be easier for me, but that seems strange that I can't do the same things with streamed content. This seems so "do-able" that I'm hoping I'm just missing something. Help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffejns Posted October 3, 2019 Author Share Posted October 3, 2019 Also, I am aware of Virtual Desktop, which claims to be able to play YouTube 360 videos natively. I have two concerns before buying it: That it actually does so , testimony from people who have done it That I cannot accomplish this with any other free player. I say this because $17 CDN to buy MOST of what Virtual Desktop does isn't worth it to me; the whole 2D-screen in a 3D environment thing has been done and I have a zillion free apps that do it. I just don't want to have buyers regret either because it isn't as advertised (doesn't do YouTube well) or I find out later some free app did this wonderfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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