3d 360 panoramas for SAMSUNG Gear VR

[h3d]

Hmmm, I may have spoken too soon. Thanks for the explanation Alex. If I just have a standard 360 spherical render can I get that into my Gear Headset?

[AlexP]

Stan and Alex
Were you able to go over this at all? I have Vray 3.0 (so no 6:1 cube option) and the Gear VR. I would love to render out my project with my current settings and drop them into something that will create the proper format for the Gear to view.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks,
Greg

Yes actually, its a bit fiddly.
But if you split your stereo pano into separate L and R images. Then drop both of those together on to the "make Vtour" droplet.
You then need to go and edit the tour.xml that has just been created.
In there, you'll see something like <image> blah blah. There'll be one for the left and one for the right.
Delete one entirely.
In my edited one, the section looks like this:

<image stereo="true" stereolabels="left|right">
			<cube url="panos/cambridge_%t.tiles/pano_%s.jpg" />
			<mobile>
				<cube url="panos/cambridge_%t.tiles/mobile_%s.jpg" />
			</mobile>
		</image>

the names you put in the stereolabels bit corresponds with "%s" in your file name.

Hope this makes enough sense?? Im not very code savvy so someone else may be able to explain better.

[h3d]

Stan, would you be able to explain how you use the KRPano droplets to create a stereo pano using a stereo spherical render from Vray please?

Stan and Alex
Were you able to go over this at all? I have Vray 3.0 (so no 6:1 cube option) and the Gear VR. I would love to render out my project with my current settings and drop them into something that will create the proper format for the Gear to view.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks,
Greg

[Richard7666]

sorry if it's been mentioned in the thread, but are there any good "players" to view cubemaps on? (For Windows)

Cheers

[cheerioboy]

Paul Bourke has some good information, http://paulbourke.net/stereographics/stereorender/

[vasil.minkov]

When using focus method = rotation, the focus distance is a distance to the point of view. It is taken from camera by default but you may override it to achieve DOF independent stereo effect.

[AlexP]

You may also use focus method = Rotation. This usually results in better stereoscopic effect, that is also controllable using the focus distance.
When using focus method = None the distant objects may appear flat.

Ok will give it a try, what exactly does the focus distance do in that case? I assumed it was to do with DOF.

[vasil.minkov]

You may also use focus method = Rotation. This usually results in better stereoscopic effect, that is also controllable using the focus distance.
When using focus method = None the distant objects may appear flat.

[AlexP]

I think 65mm is the default, but its worth experimenting. We've found that different settings suit different people (obviously I guess)

AFAIK the other default parameters are fine to be left as they are.

[Vizioen]

Same as with a normal spherical pano, except you use the vray stereoscopic helper as well.
Set the eye distance to the right scale, tick adjust resolution so it doubles the render width to accommodate both eyes, and then render.

You should end up with an image thats 4:1 and is 2 x spherical panos side-by-side.

From there it depends how you are viewing it, what app etc.

Im still looking for a good iOS app to simply view the stereo pano without any messing around.

Thank you Alex, about the eye distance, what value should I use here, the distance between my own eyes or the distance between the lenses of my google cardboard? As for the other parameters of the stereoscopic helper, do I leave those at default?

[AlexP]

Neil, is it possible to post your setup/settings on how to make a stereoscopic pano that works with google cardboard. I mean are there any special settings?

Same as with a normal spherical pano, except you use the vray stereoscopic helper as well.
Set the eye distance to the right scale, tick adjust resolution so it doubles the render width to accommodate both eyes, and then render.

You should end up with an image thats 4:1 and is 2 x spherical panos side-by-side.

From there it depends how you are viewing it, what app etc.

Im still looking for a good iOS app to simply view the stereo pano without any messing around.

[Vizioen]

I posted it a low res version in this thread - http://imgur.com/y6KqfIO
The only ones we have at 20k are now from real jobs so I cant post them yet.
I was mistaken though - it renders l&r side by side in vray, but i cut them up to do left on top and right on bottom for vr player.

Neil, is it possible to post your setup/settings on how to make a stereoscopic pano that works with google cardboard. I mean are there any special settings?

[NicoC]

Maybe worth setting this thread sticky, no ?

[Neilg]

Also is there a stereo video format you can use to get a similar result but with animation? Looping animation would be cool, Imagine a house interior with a fireplace or a breeze blowing the curtains.

vr player works pretty well for me, it's a $5 app

I am as I post waiting for a render to test this.

[AlexP]

considering getting a cardboard + s5 to start VR experiments. But I already have an iphone, is there a way to get the iphone into the cardboard (or similar) and an app or other way to use it to view these types of files?

Yes iPhone works perfectly with Cardboard.
Im still looking for a good (free!) app to view stuff offline, but you can view the KRpano stuff on a website I believe.

There is a free app for viewing stereo 360 videos - Kolor Eyes. But crashes a fair amount on my phone.

Cant understand why they didnt include support for still stereo panos as well...