![]() Our efforts to bring the best VR web experience will not stop. We will continue to work with our partners to test and support other popular models of VR headsets as they enter the market. To start, we want to make life easier for VR enthusiasts by providing instant VR video playback to your headset without the need of additional software. Check out how awesome it looks with your VR headset. We had a pleasure to join the Wrocław Panthers American football club at their training session and shot parts of it in 360 video. We especially believe that VR synergizes with sport and there is much to achieve here. With the ever-growing resource of 360-degree content from independent filmmakers and major media and sports companies, it’s hard for VR capabilities to keep up with our imagination. This is just the first step on the path for a fully immersive and compatible VR experience on a web browser. We’ve been working hard with our UX and design teams to create a simple and intuitive user experience for VR headset owners to enjoy as many online videos as they want to. You can launch any of your favorite 2D movies or standard 180-degree videos through your headset, creating an awesome, personal movie theater experience. Opera’s new video playback will not only support 360-degree videos but standard videos as well. Simply turn your head in the direction you want to look. What’s more, looking around in the video will no longer require the use of a keyboard or mouse. One simple click will engulf the viewer into the 360-degree world offered by the video. When a user browses to a video, a button above the video (next to Opera’s video pop out button) labeled ‘Watch in VR’ will appear. The newest Opera developer version comes with VR 360 player feature enabled and will automatically detect an installed VR headset. This functionality enables users to watch virtual reality videos, and standard 2D videos, instantly through their VR headsets. ![]() ![]() That’s why Opera has begun to focus on creating and embedding direct VR playback into the browser. We want to bring the best web experience to our users. It wastes time and bandwidth on blindly downloading a video. Then quit the browser and launch a separate player app. So far they had to use inconvenient workarounds: download the video first, including spending time on finding a “download” button and waiting for the download, then. However, with limited software support, it has been difficult for VR headset owners to easily enjoy the fast growing library of 360-degree content on Youtube, Facebook and other video portals. The rapid growth of 360 videos and soon WebVR bring an exciting revolution for VR content on the web. VR will change how we experience the web forever However, we do like to keep an open mind if any of the apps mentioned above makes changes and actually improves.Opera becomes the first browser to support 360-degree videos in virtual reality headsets! This new developer update comes with a built-in VR 360 player for leading headsets such as HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and other OpenVR compatible devices, unlocking the immersive world of 360-degree videos for Opera users. These apps are still linked here but solely for the purpose that you’ll know which ones to avoid. The ads are so aggressive you can’t even tap on the controls so trust me on this and skip it. VR Player iOS, this app is just impossible. WEARVR iOS/ Android, features a catalog of VR videos but prompts no reactions when you hit download, which is a prerequisite for being able to watch the videos.ģ60 VR Player iOS, which has no controls besides the pause button and something similar to a panning motion at the bottom right corner. More importantly for my trial use it failed to load any thumbnail for the videos, and despite authorizing it to use WLAN and data while being connected to a steady Wi-Fi, the app kept reminding me that it needed an internet connection. In360tube iOS/ Android is an obvious YouTube knockoff and is mostly in Spanish. It also crashes like your worst nightmare with annoying flashing ads. ![]() VR Player FREE iOS/ Android only plays in landscape mode and doesn’t have a content portal at all instead it turns your phone into a pair of VR goggles to create a quasi-but-surely-illusional sense of being immersed in virtual reality. One thing that’s consistent between these two apps is that they’re both not doing what they were made to do, so don’t waste your time. VR Tube iOS doesn’t load anything also there’s a second app named VR Tube that’s both available on Google Play and the App Store but is released by a different developer. There are other players such as VR Tube, VR Player Free and in360tube, but frankly these apps are basically dysfunctional.
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