Alternatives to this crap?

[Bluelight]

Can someone give me an alternative to this crap program that will play YouTube 3d vr videos?

Virtual desktop doesn't work either anymore.

[Gabriel]

There is nothing at the moment that can be used for Youtube 360 videos then this app

[Bluelight]

Originally posted by Gabriel:

There is nothing at the moment that can be used for Youtube 360 videos then this app

I dunno if I believe that. Is so that's BS cause this dumb app hasn't been fixed in 2 years!

[Gabriel]

Originally posted by Bluelight:

Originally posted by Gabriel:

There is nothing at the moment that can be used for Youtube 360 videos then this app

I dunno if I believe that. Is so that's BS cause this dumb app hasn't been fixed in 2 years!

The Youtube VR for Oculus Go works great and it is way better then this PC version. it seems Google don't know or don't want to develop the app for PC while they focus on android. ( Oculus Go works on android)
You can always try to download the 360 videos from YT and play them with another VR media player from your SSD but I am not sure if they work properly. I haven't tried it myself. I just persisted in learning this app and use it for streaming. I mostly use it for 2D videos tho. They look cool on the big screen in the dark room without the fuss of always putting them on full screen.

[jchooper12]

When I launch a video, the launch screen closed but was replaced with a black box the same size oft he launch window, right in front of the video, cannot get it to close. Bad

[Gabriel]

Originally posted by jchooper12:

When I launch a video, the launch screen closed but was replaced with a black box the same size oft he launch window, right in front of the video, cannot get it to close. Bad

Do you mean the black window with the video name and progress bar and buttons? it should disappear after a few seconds by itself or if you click with the controller for example somewhere on the floor under the home button, back button, search button.

[scott]

While they won't play YouTube videos, you could try alternative apps that offer a limited selection of videos, but do display them in great quality. Veer and Within are two.
https://www.with.in/
https://veer.tv

[Gabriel]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/768100/GizmoVR_Video_Player/

I have just tested it and this app plays Youtube 360 videos but you need to adjust the settings every time you play a video. You also need to click the button "play in full screen".

[Bluelight]

Originally posted by Gabriel:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/768100/GizmoVR_Video_Player/

I have just tested it and this app plays Youtube 360 videos but you need to adjust the settings every time you play a video. You also need to click the button "play in full screen".

Weird, I tried this last night and couldn't get it to work. Do you just use to browser within gizmo and navigate to youtube there, then play a video and hit the square button that makes it full screen?

What about 180 videos?

[Gabriel]

Originally posted by Bluelight:

Weird, I tried this last night and couldn't get it to work. Do you just use to browser within gizmo and navigate to youtube there, then play a video and hit the square button that makes it full screen?

What about 180 videos?

Yes, it is like you said " use to browser within gizmo and navigate to youtube there, then play a video and hit the square button that makes it full screen"
Also, when the video plays in full screen, you need to get to the video options (I press the trigger button for the UI to appear and then click the gear wheel icon) and manually select 180, or 360 if the video plays wrongly from the start.

Sometimes you might need to select the other options too like SBS or UO for the video to play properly. You can also select the video quality and volume from the same interface.

You need to do this every time for every video you play, because it seems Gizmo uses its own conversion page to paste the link to so it will be able to decode it.
https://gizmovr.com/playlink?ids=&theme=light_yellow

Here is a suggestion to search youtube for a cool 360 travel videos channel: AirPano
It has 4k 5k 8k 12k videos.

[Bluelight]

Nice thanks I'll give it a shot!

[PYCbunny]

I used opera browser to view youtube in VR

[leongt1954]

When I tried watching a 360 vid from youtube on on my rift using virtual desktop one lens showed vertical and the other horizontal so it was all screwed up Use to work fine but not now, I think it has more to do with youtube than Virtual desktop when I download a vid it's screwed up but if I watch it using youtube vr all is good

[Zulcus]

I was downloading OPERA today but no VR....??? You mean you was using OPERA long time ago?

[offall]

I tried the gizomovr and it doesn't work, take this video for example, i cannot get it to proper 180 3D at 5K resolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnWIinWpgEg&t=3s

the video only has 1080p and 720p to select, and full screen is a screen window in the font, change it to 180 make it blurry and wrong aspect ratio

Originally posted by Gabriel:

Originally posted by Bluelight:

Weird, I tried this last night and couldn't get it to work. Do you just use to browser within gizmo and navigate to youtube there, then play a video and hit the square button that makes it full screen?

What about 180 videos?

Yes, it is like you said " use to browser within gizmo and navigate to youtube there, then play a video and hit the square button that makes it full screen"
Also, when the video plays in full screen, you need to get to the video options (I press the trigger button for the UI to appear and then click the gear wheel icon) and manually select 180, or 360 if the video plays wrongly from the start.

Sometimes you might need to select the other options too like SBS or UO for the video to play properly. You can also select the video quality and volume from the same interface.

You need to do this every time for every video you play, because it seems Gizmo uses its own conversion page to paste the link to so it will be able to decode it.
https://gizmovr.com/playlink?ids=&theme=light_yellow

Here is a suggestion to search youtube for a cool 360 travel videos channel: AirPano
It has 4k 5k 8k 12k videos.

[Gabriel]

Originally posted by offall:

I tried the gizomovr and it doesn't work, take this video for example, i cannot get it to proper 180 3D at 5K resolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnWIinWpgEg&t=3s

the video only has 1080p and 720p to select, and full screen is a screen window in the font, change it to 180 make it blurry and wrong aspect ratio

That is why you need to learn to use the YouTube VR app. The alternative options are not able to decode perfectly the youtube vr. Iplayed the video and it works fine. It is just a collection of images not a real video.