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

VRScout

According to Skarredghost , ‘6DOF Lite’ mode is capable of automatically converting existing monoscopic 360 into full volumetric video minus the need for expensive photogrammetry, volumetric, or lightfield camera technology. The post HTC’s ‘6DOF Lite’ Mode Adds Volumetric Depth To 360 Video appeared first on VRScout.

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Oculus’ New 360 Capture SDK Lets You Create and Share In-Game 360 Videos and Photos

Road to VR

This hopefully also means we’re getting something Oculus promised as a feature back when Home was initially announced for the consumer Rift back in the summer of 2015: 360 video previews of games. “We solved the problem by rethinking the way 360 content is created,” writes Lee and Gupta.

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Felix & Paul’s ‘The People’s House’ 360 Video Wins an Emmy

Road to VR

The second night of the 69th Emmy Awards saw a number of nominations for virtual reality content, including rendered experiences and 360 video spanning a diverse swath of genres. You can download Felix & Paul’s Emmy award-winning video on both Oculus Rift or Samsung Gear VR.

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Native 360 Video Capture Comes to First Oculus Rift Game

VRScout

The latest update to Dead and Buried brings in-game 360° image and video capture among other new features. While previous recording methods merely captured the 2D perspective of the player, this 360° functionality will allow spectators to dive deeper into the experience for a more authentic representation of the actual game.

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Opera Browser Adds 360 Video Player for VR Headsets, Plans Full WebVR Support

Road to VR

For OpenVR-compatible headsets like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, watching streaming 360 video from from your browser is now as simple as clicking a button and putting on your headset. From a user’s perspective, all you have to do then is navigate to a 360 video and press the ‘VR mode’ button.

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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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