3d 360 panoramas for SAMSUNG Gear VR

[DanielBrew]

Yes that seems to be working now.

And as you found the filepaths and names are case sensitive. I used lower-case and just pasted snippets of my xml file, sorry if that caused confusion.

[werticus]

Your my hero!

<krpano version="1.19" title="Virtual Tour">

	<include url="skin/vtourskin.xml" />


	<!-- customize skin settings: maps, gyro, thumbnails, tooltips, layout, design, ... -->
	<skin_settings maps="false"
	               maps_type="bing"
	               maps_bing_api_key=""
	               maps_zoombuttons="false"
	               gyro="true"
	               littleplanetintro="false"
	               title="true"
	               thumbs="true"
	               thumbs_width="120" thumbs_height="80" thumbs_padding="10" thumbs_crop="0|40|240|160"
	               thumbs_opened="false"
	               thumbs_text="false"
	               thumbs_dragging="true"
	               thumbs_onhoverscrolling="false"
	               thumbs_scrollbuttons="false"
	               thumbs_scrollindicator="false"
	               thumbs_loop="false"
	               tooltips_buttons="false"
	               tooltips_thumbs="false"
	               tooltips_hotspots="false"
	               tooltips_mapspots="false"
	               deeplinking="false"
	               loadscene_flags="MERGE"
	               loadscene_blend="OPENBLEND(0.5, 0.0, 0.75, 0.05, linear)"
	               loadscene_blend_prev="SLIDEBLEND(0.5, 180, 0.75, linear)"
	               loadscene_blend_next="SLIDEBLEND(0.5,   0, 0.75, linear)"
	               loadingtext="loading..."
	               layout_width="100%"
	               layout_maxwidth.normal="900"
	               layout_maxwidth.mobile=""
	               controlbar_width.normal="-44"
	               controlbar_width.mobile="100%"
	               controlbar_height.normal="38"
	               controlbar_height.mobile="34"
	               controlbar_offset.normal="22"
	               controlbar_offset.mobile="0"
	               controlbar_offset_closed="-40"
	               controlbar_overlap.normal="7"
	               controlbar_overlap.mobile="2"
	               design_skin_images="vtourskin.png"
	               design_bgcolor="0x000000"
	               design_bgalpha="0.5"
	               design_bgborder="0 0xFFFFFF 1.0"
	               design_bgroundedge.normal="9"
	               design_bgroundedge.mobile="1"
	               design_bgshadow="0 0 9 0xFFFFFF 0.5"
	               design_thumbborder_bgborder="4 0xFFFFFF 1.0"
	               design_thumbborder_padding="2"
	               design_thumbborder_bgroundedge="5"
	               design_text_css="color:#FFFFFF; font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold;"
	               design_text_shadow="1"
	               />

	<!--
	    For an alternative skin design either change the <skin_settings> values 
	    from above or optionally include one of the predefined designs from below.
	    Either by removing the 'xml-if-check' from the particular <include> element
	    or by adding e.g. initvar:{design:'flat_light'} to the embedpano() call in
	    the html file:
	-->
	<include url="skin/vtourskin_design_glass.xml"       if="design === 'glass'"       />
	<include url="skin/vtourskin_design_flat.xml"        if="design === 'flat'"        />
	<include url="skin/vtourskin_design_flat_light.xml"  if="design === 'flat_light'"  />
	<include url="skin/vtourskin_design_ultra_light.xml" if="design === 'ultra_light'" />
	<include url="skin/vtourskin_design_117.xml"         if="design === '117'"         />


	<!-- startup action - load the first pano/scene -->
	<action name="startup" autorun="onstart">
		if(startscene === null OR !scene[get(startscene)], copy(startscene,scene[0].name); );
		loadscene(get(startscene), null, MERGE);
		if(startactions !== null, startactions() );
	</action>


	
	<scene name="scene_one_RGB_color_L" title="one.RGB_color_L" onstart="" thumburl="panos/one_RGB_color_L.tiles/thumb.jpg" lat="" lng="" heading="">

		<view hlookat="0" vlookat="0" fovtype="MFOV" fov="120" maxpixelzoom="2.0" fovmin="70" fovmax="140" limitview="auto" />

		<preview url="panos/one_RGB_color_L.tiles/preview.jpg" />

		<image type="CUBE" multires="true" tilesize="512" stereolabels="l|r" stereo="true">
			<level tiledimagewidth="1280" tiledimageheight="1280">
				<cube url="panos/one_RGB_color_%t.tiles/%s/l2/%v/l2_%s_%v_%h.jpg" />
			</level>
			<level tiledimagewidth="640" tiledimageheight="640">
				<cube url="panos/one_RGB_color_%t.tiles/%s/l1/%v/l1_%s_%v_%h.jpg" />
			</level>
		</image>

		<!-- place your scene hotspots here -->

	</scene>

	
</krpano>

I don't really understand why we renamed the cube url to _%t... that is probably the issue here.

EDIT: hrmm... is L and R case sensitive? because your code said l and r so i did lower case in the code, but the directories of my files are upper case...?
EDIT2: Yup that fixed it changed the code to stereolabels="L|R" and it works.

Of course not sure if the actual render works in a cardboard yet If you want to have a look again!

[DanielBrew]

Okay thanks for that, very intuitive process! Does it work now?

http://www.dvstudios.biz/VR/tour.html

Yeah, it's not the most user friendly process, I expect it will get easier when it's out of beta.

I'm afraid your tour is giving me error messages:
ERROR: loading of panos/one_RGB_color_l.tiles/f/l1/1/l1_f_1_1.jpg failed!

If you copy and paste your tour.xml I'll try to debug.

[DanielBrew]

Thanks Dan I had actually edited my post - but not fast enough! - because I noticed those ... I can now get a pano going in Chrome. However, I'm generating a server address with the Testing Server but getting a 'Error 404: Not Found
File not found' error!

I'm pointing to the vtour folder, copying the server address that's provided, then pasting that into Chrome. Is that the correct workflow?

I just click on the blue link in the server window and that takes me to the pano folder. From there I can can open tour.html.

Is Chrome your default browser?

[werticus]

You also need to:
7. Open tour.xml in notepad or similar and delete the entire second scene - everything between <SCENE> ... </SCENE>
8. Edit the <IMAGE> tag in the first scene by adding stereolabels="l|r" stereo="true" so it looks something like <image whatever-was here-already stereolabels="l|r" stereo="true">
9. in between the <IMAGE> and </IMAGE> tags edit any _l to _%t for example

url="panos/NameOfYourPano_l.tiles/pano_%s.jpg"

to

url="panos/NameOfYourPano_%t.tiles/pano_%s.jpg"

Okay thanks for that, very intuitive process! Does it work now?

http://www.dvstudios.biz/VR/tour.html

[landrvr1]

Thanks Dan I had actually edited my post - but not fast enough! - because I noticed those ... I can now get a pano going in Chrome. However, I'm generating a server address with the Testing Server but getting a 'Error 404: Not Found
File not found' error!

I'm pointing to the vtour folder, copying the server address that's provided, then pasting that into Chrome. Is that the correct workflow?

[DanielBrew]

Hi folks, I'm having a heck of a time getting this to work - pretty lost. I keep getting:

WARNING: Locally not trusted - External Interface NOT available!

Then there's several error messages saying that my jpg's failed to load.

Here's the code section:

<scene name="scene_pano_l" title="pano_l" onstart="" thumburl="panos/pano_l.tiles/thumb.jpg" lat="" lng="" heading="">

<view hlookat="0" vlookat="0" fovtype="MFOV" fov="120" maxpixelzoom="2.0" fovmin="70" fovmax="140" limitview="range" vlookatmin="-30.000" vlookatmax="30.000" />

<preview url="panos/pano_l.tiles/preview.jpg" />

<image ... stereo="true" stereolabels="l|r">

<cube url="panos/pano_%t.tiles/pano_%s.jpg" />

<mobile>
<cube url="panos/pano_%t.tiles/mobile_%s.jpg" />
</mobile>

</image>

<!-- place your scene hotspots here -->

</scene>

Take the three ... out of your image tag for a start. It should read:

<image stereo="true" stereolabels="l|r">

The rest looks ok at first glance. Some features are disabled when when opening local .html files in the browser. To get round this use the "krpano Testing Server.exe".

[landrvr1]

Hi folks, I'm having a heck of a time getting this to work - pretty lost. I can get the pano working, but the Google Cardboard icon never shows up.

Here's the code section:

<scene name="scene_pano_l" title="pano_l" onstart="" thumburl="panos/pano_l.tiles/thumb.jpg" lat="" lng="" heading="">

<view hlookat="0" vlookat="0" fovtype="MFOV" fov="120" maxpixelzoom="2.0" fovmin="70" fovmax="140" limitview="range" vlookatmin="-30.000" vlookatmax="30.000" />

<preview url="panos/pano_l.tiles/preview.jpg" />

<image stereo="true" stereolabels="l|r">

<cube url="panos/pano_%t.tiles/pano_%s.jpg" />

<mobile>
<cube url="panos/pano_%t.tiles/mobile_%s.jpg" />
</mobile>

</image>

<!-- place your scene hotspots here -->

</scene>

[DanielBrew]

You also need to:
7. Open tour.xml in notepad or similar and delete the entire second scene - everything between <SCENE> ... </SCENE>
8. Edit the <IMAGE> tag in the first scene by adding stereolabels="l|r" stereo="true" so it looks something like <image whatever-was here-already stereolabels="l|r" stereo="true">
9. in between the <IMAGE> and </IMAGE> tags edit any _l to _%t for example

url="panos/NameOfYourPano_l.tiles/pano_%s.jpg"

to

url="panos/NameOfYourPano_%t.tiles/pano_%s.jpg"

[werticus]

No, that is okay, but can we run through the work flow step by step in a clear and concise way? This is what I've come up with by reading through here.

This is what I have done:
0)Load suitable scene, place camera in central location, remove any tilt and vignetting from camera settings, and make the camera perfectly level.
1)Set resolution to 4:1 aspect ratio eg 8000x2000
2)In the vray render / camera tab: Set the camera type to spherical and the FOV to 360 degrees.
3)Add vray stereoscopic helper. Not sure if you should specify focus or not I did not for this image.
4)Render, save file
5)Open file in photoshop or similar and chop into *_L.jpg and *_R.jpg images 4000x2000 pixels each
6)Drag resulting files on top of the "MAKE VTOUR (MULTIRES) droplet.bat file" Specify Spherical image, and 360 degrees and then run resulting tour.html file.

This is what I have done for this one. I wonder if I named _L and _R backwards if Morne says so.

[3LP]

I can export it with my license if needed to troubleshoot

Cheers
Stan

[werticus]

I suppose it is possible, I had to manually split the image into _L and _R images. Or it might be the water marks messing with you? Hurry up cardboard!

Either that or it is because i used the focus, turn mode on this and set the distance to about the wall.

[Morne]

Does this work?

http://www.dvstudios.biz/VR/tour.html

I don't have a cardboard yet to test it myself.

Something looks strange, almost asif the left/right is reversed? Anybody else seeing this?

[werticus]

Does this work?

http://www.dvstudios.biz/VR/tour.html

I don't have a cardboard yet to test it myself.

Being web-based stuff as you said, it's literally just the best way to view any VR stuff, at least on the iPhone (and I search a lot) as well as on desktop. I haven't tried andriod as I don't have any.
You can easily "free up" the tethering to the net part on a iPhone by using a offline web browser like good reader for only 5$.

Just need to find a way to get the cube maps working in KRPano (haven't really looked into that yet) but it's working great with stereo 360's, stills and videos.

Stan

What resolution are you rendering your videos? The maximum I can get an iPhone 5s and 6 to display a mono video is 1920 x 960 which is really poor quality using H264. The playback on an iPhone is also very juddery, seems to be a limitation of the playback speed on the iPhone from what krpano have said.