3d 360 panoramas for SAMSUNG Gear VR

[deflix]

So are you doing also the viewer ? For windows ? Android ?
Because the problem is to have a viewer that can read all the data without lags.

At the moment the GearVR is hard to beat using the ORBX viewer.

[vlado]

At the moment the GearVR is hard to beat using the ORBX viewer.

If you just want to view cube stereo images, we already have a build of V-Ray that can generate them. Would be good if you can test if it actually works - GearVR is not available over here yet (if ever...)

Best regards,
Vlado

[Neilg]

The gear vr is just a fancy case for google cardboard, it doesn't have positional tracking.

[vlado]

Ok then. Still need the testing though We only tested the cube stereo with the Oculus.

Best regards,
Vlado

[3LP]

What do you refer to cube stereo, just the fact of rendering 360 pano with the VrayStereoRig?

Cheers
Stan

[DanielBrew]

Here's a quick test of the V-Ray stereo spherical panorama if anyone wants a look. It could do do with higher settings but it works ok.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/10924182...29093096609788

[3LP]

Really hard to save the file out fron gdrive.
I still haven't found the option to get it full ress to try out.
Anyways, it seems we are both working on the same kind of jobs

Here are my tests:
http://wip.sbrusse.com/vtour10/tour....ay.stereo=true
http://wip.sbrusse.com/vtour12/tour....ay.stereo=true
http://wip.sbrusse.com/vtour13/tour....ay.stereo=true

Stan

[vlado]

These are great - they really show the space much better than a still image.

Best regards,
Vlado

[DanielBrew]

Really hard to save the file out fron gdrive.
I still haven't found the option to get it full ress to try out.
Anyways, it seems we are both working on the same kind of jobs

Here are my tests:
http://wip.sbrusse.com/vtour10/tour....ay.stereo=true
http://wip.sbrusse.com/vtour12/tour....ay.stereo=true
http://wip.sbrusse.com/vtour13/tour....ay.stereo=true

Stan

Hey Stan they look really cool on my phone + cardboard. Like Vlado says, you really get a feel for the space. What res are you rendering at to get that sort detail?

[devin]

Is it possible to do this with the stereo rig in Vray 2.4?

[vlado]

I think DomeMaster have a plugin V-Ray 2.x, but I haven't tried it:

https://github.com/zicher3d-org/dome...ster3D-Install

Best regards,
Vlado

[3LP]

Hey Stan they look really cool on my phone + cardboard. Like Vlado says, you really get a feel for the space. What res are you rendering at to get that sort detail?

Thanks guys, glad you like them, they are still early tests as we are not rolling this out on the farm/nodes till the SP has been released.
Those has been rendered 8k x 2k.

Actually, I'm not sure we need that much.
Vlado, do you know what is the maximum ress supported for the oculus?
I'm just guessing that with the pixel on a screen defining a certain field of view, for 360 degrees it would do X pixels.
IE : 1920 pixels for 110 degrees means that your would do ruffly 360/110*1920 : 6283 pixels, but a accurate number would be great

Render times : Single i7-3820 : 14h for the one in the stairs, 4h for the one close to the lifts and 8h for the one close to the desks.
Nothing that can't be rendered in 10-20 minutes on the farm with DR
We are actually thinking of making animations, that milestone will be cool, just waiting for the SP

Stan

[deflix]

The gear vr is just a fancy case for google cardboard, it doesn't have positional tracking.

This is not quite true. I have both cardboard and gear plus dk1 and 2 and can verify John Carmacks efforts have paid off. The difference is night and day with a strong SDK and locked sub 20ms latency - this alone makes a huge impact on the experience . The absence of pos tracking is more or less irrelevant when viewing static panoramas on a 2.5k display and it is comfortable to wear for extended periods. (Hands free)

Google made something fantastic dont get me wrong but the Gear is on another level entirely.

[deflix]

If you just want to view cube stereo images, we already have a build of V-Ray that can generate them. Would be good if you can test if it actually works - GearVR is not available over here yet (if ever...)

Best regards,
Vlado

Hi Vlado sorry for the delay - this would be awesome how to arrange?

PS - you really should get a Gear VR as i'm convinced your render engine will come to dominate the format - I could send you one potentially.....I'm in the UK but ordered mine from the US. let me know

Pps also might be useful to look into a Vray viewer for the Gear VR as currently OTOY'S viewer is the only one available at present and has a branded splash screen

Cheers,
Felix

[deflix]

Thanks guys, glad you like them, they are still early tests as we are not rolling this out on the farm/nodes till the SP has been released.
Those has been rendered 8k x 2k.

Actually, I'm not sure we need that much.
Vlado, do you know what is the maximum ress supported for the oculus?
I'm just guessing that with the pixel on a screen defining a certain field of view, for 360 degrees it would do X pixels.
IE : 1920 pixels for 110 degrees means that your would do ruffly 360/110*1920 : 6283 pixels, but a accurate number would be great

Render times : Single i7-3820 : 14h for the one in the stairs, 4h for the one close to the lifts and 8h for the one close to the desks.
Nothing that can't be rendered in 10-20 minutes on the farm with DR
We are actually thinking of making animations, that milestone will be cool, just waiting for the SP

Stan

Hi Stan,

Your panoramas look awesome and much nicer than the OTOY samples on Gear VR - Vray really is perfectly suited to this format which is 100% the format of the future for architects and way way more powerful than still images - it will be a penny-drop moment for all in time

Regarding output I have done substantial testing and have found some down-sampling benefits the lower res DK2 with equi-rectangular 7200x3600 Top-Bottom config to be the optimum. Gear VR on the other hand is pixel perfect at 18432x1536 cube-map format. This is a special 'super efficient' format for mobile VR.

Hope this helps