Saving panoramic images locally for Gear VR

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Apologies if this has already been answered. I have had a quick look but been unable to find a solution.

Essentially I want to save my panoramic images to be used on a Samsung Gear VR. However due to high security/confidentiality on project, we are not able to use the cloud service etc. I need to save them locally and load onto the phone.

But the panoramic images, will not register in the 360 viewer.

I have used a tool ‘pano2vr’ to convert them to work, but that leaves them covered in watermarks etc. I just save as ‘equirectangular’, they visually look the same, but it seems to work… So my guess is when they are saved locally, they are not being recognised as the necessary file type.

Does this sound like a bug, or am I doing something fundamentally wrong in my process?

Thanks for the help!

Nick

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OK I have found a solution.

  1. convert the PNG to JPEG.

  2. You need to add ‘equirectangular’ to the image meta data.

I used https://www.thexifer.net

Add ‘equirectangular’ in the ‘ProjectionType’ heading.

  1. Just add it to phone for Gear VR/Occulus 360 will read it. (does not work for stereo images)

Would this be something that could be developed into the export? Export pano’s as JPEG with necessary Meta data?

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Hi @NickTyrer ,

our *.png images should contain these information already as they are equirectangular.

I’ve tested the tool “TurnMe Panorama” (#noAdvertising) and it could handle our png (no stereo).

But I don’t have deeper knowledge about their policies.