Showing posts with label Oculus Rift. Show all posts
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Saturday 26 November 2016

How to Play 3D Videos and Movies on Oculus Rift

Fanciful to create 3D movies for playing on Oculus Rift? Certainly not. Maybe it has been imagined before, but in the prevailing Virtual Reality times, making 3D VR videos yourselves come true even you thought you are just an amateur. There are a few tricks required to be able to watch your own movie library on Oculus Rift, as well as convert incompatible videos for Oculus Rift in 3D. Read on.



How to create 3D MP4/MKV videos for Oculus Rift? 

To watch your own 2D/3D movies and even 360 degree videos on Oculus Rift with 3D effect, you can download a freeVR player app like Virtual Desktop, which allows you to enjoy your movies in correct video mode. Just browser the videos and put on your Rift to enjoy.  

Why not play good movie sources with built-in Oculus Video App?

If you have an Oculus Rift, you have probably noticed the built in Video App. The Oculus App has several limitations which include:

* Inability to detect automatically 360-degree movies stored on your computer. Workaround: Rename any 360-degree movie you have so the filename ending with  _360, then the player will pick up the file for playback in 360 degrees.

* The player will play regular video files such as .MKV in a virtual movie theater, which is cool, but it will not play 3D movies or play any sound if the audio is encoded in DD5.1, DTS or any surround sound format

You may tired of the hundreds of simple trailers, demos and some shorts from online on Rift with 3rd party VR players. In these cases, you do the favor to seek the chance to see spectacular local films in Blu-ray, DVD, AVI, MKV, MTS, MXF, YouTube FLV, YIFY, etc. within Oculus Rift, can be done? 

So as to finish the task, you can adopt 3D movie creating software of Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for help. With it you can easily convert 2D/3D movies or rip Blu-ray/DVDs to MKV, MP4, AVI WMV with 3D effect to create true theater entertainment. 

If you have the colorful 3D glasses and 3D player on PC like Stereoscopic Player or 3D TV, it couldn't be more wonderful to create 3D Red-Green movies for them. If you're Mac users, then turn to Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac, which allows you to create 3D videos for playback on Oculus Rift on Mac(including OS Sierra and OS X El Capitan). Now download the right version and follow the tips below to finish your job. 

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Steps to Make 3D movies for playing on Oculus Rift

Step 1. Add own movie library

Install and launch the best 3D Converter for Oculus Rift, and add video files by clicking "Add file" or using "Drag & drop" method 

 

Step 2. Choose SBS 3D MP4/MKV as output format for Oculus Rift 

To watch mvoies on Oculus Rift with 3D effects, you can choose an Oculus Rift customized profile with its supported format: 

Go to the "Select Format" >"Device" >"VR" >"Oculus Rift" 

Step 3. Set Side-by-Side(SBS) for Oculus Rift VR 

Click "Edit" >"3D" >"left-right" >"OK". What's more, you can also use the useful build-in video editor in this Video Converter Ultimate to polish your video to get a better 3D visual entertainment. 



Note: Although there is a profile created by the application, if you like you can always change some parameters of resolution, compression, audio, etc to get your favor output 3D movies. 

An important issue that you must consider that in Oculus Rift VR resolution for each eye is not Full HD as the headset uses two separate OLED displays that receive their visual information from very powerful PCs running some of the world's best graphics cards. So you can free change your target video size, bitrate, frame rate in "Settings". Here, 720p (1280*720) with a higher bitrate around 5mbit/s is recommended. Higher resolutions for the specific format doesn't make the quality better but are a waste of power and battery life.

Step 4. Start to convert 2D/3D videos to SBS 3D MKV/MP4 for Oculus Rift 

At last, simply click the "Start" button, and the 3D SBS maker will start the conversion for playback with Oculus Rift. After conversion,  head to the destination folder where the converted files are stored (under "Open" button). After that, transfer them to Oculus Rift headset for playing.

How to Watch Movies On The Oculus Rift (Development Kit 2 DK2)? 

Here we go:

Step 1: Properly labeling your 360 and 3D videos
Before you can move your 360 and 3D videos to the Videos folder in your Windows system drive, it must be labeled in the proper format for Oculus to render it correctly.

Label 3D videos:

For 3D panoramic videos, top-bottom, bottom-top, left-right and right-left stereoscopic video support are implemented using the following naming convention:

Naming conventions used to label your 3D panoramic video:

"_TB.mp4" or "_360_TB.mp4" - Top / bottom 3D
"_BT.mp4" or "_360_BT.mp4" - Bottom / top 3D
"_LR.mp4" or "_360_LR.mp4" - Left / right side by side 3D
"_RL.mp4" or "_360_RL.mp4" - Right / left side by side 3D

Please add the proper naming convention to the end of your video file name.

Example: If your video file was MyCoolVideo.mp4, label it asMyCoolVideo_360_TB.mp4.

Label 360 videos:

360 videos in Oculus are implemented using spherical mapping to render panoramic videos. For your 360 video to be compatible with Oculus, add "_360" to the end of your file name. Example: If your video file was MyCoolVideo.mp4, label it as MyCoolVideo_360.mp4.

Step 2: Transfer your videos to Oculus Video

The Oculus Video app for Rift pulls video files from your default Windows video folder. To transfer your video files to the Windows Video folder:

Open your Windows System drive (this is generally your C: drive).
Open the Users folder.
Select your user profile.
Locate and open the Videos folder and move your videos here.

The next time you launch Oculus Video, your videos will automatically appear in the "My Videos" section.

How awesome is this? Yeah, it is that good! And then you can enjoy 3D movies on Oculus Rift (DK2) easily. With the innovative GUI, Dimo Video Converter Ultimate, the powerful software to create 3D movies for VR, has stepped into a whole new level of 3D performance and portability for VR videos. Wherever your ideas take you, you'll get there more than ever with adding 3D effects to own movie library, high-performance 3D Blu-ray/DVD ripping/handling based on 6X faster NVIDIA CUDA speed-up technology, state-of-the-art output VR presets like Oculus Rift,  Samsung Gear VR,HTC Vive, etc., and more. 

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Wednesday 23 November 2016

How to rip and play 3D Blu-ray on Oculus Rift

With 3D display and tilt sensors, Oculus Rift VR headset is not only designed for gaming, but also be used for movies as well. Step into Rift and watch an immersive VR movie, jump to a destination on the other side of the world. The screen looks huge and so do the pixels. Since now VR sources are so limited, and in 2016 it's not legally buy and download 3D movies in any resolution, then is it possible to watch your purchased 3D Blu-ray with Oculus Rift (including   the latest development kit for the Oculus Rift- DK2) while lying in soft sofa for a true theater entertainment instead of going to cinema?

Play 3D Blu-ray on Oculus Rift

Of course Yes! To play 3D Blu-ray on Oculus Rift  without limitations, many users are looking for VR players to make Rift (DK2) to afford 3D Blu-ray movies. However, as far as I know, most vr player apps can only play side by side or top-bottom video, while most Blu-rays are in the "frame packed" format. Worse still, Oculus Rift doesn't support Blu-ray drive attaching.

In this case, if you wanna enjoy 3D Blu-ray movie on Oculus Rift freely, you'd better find a 3D Blu-ray ripping tool to help you convert a frame packed Blu-ray to a SBS/TB which are supported by Oculus Rift natively. In the market, 3D video converter software programs vary, so you might be confused when you have to choose one.

If so, you are recommended Dimo Video Converter Ultimate. It is rated as the best solution out there to watch 3D Blu-ray movies on Oculus Rift (DK2). The program is easy to use and fully supports new released Blu-ray discs likeGame of Thrones seasons 6, Deadpool, etc.. With it, you can easily rip 2D/3D Blu-ray, DVDs to MP4/MKV/AVI/WMV with 3D SBS/TB effect for VR headsets like Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Homido VR, VR One, PSVR, etc. instead of going to cinema.

Plus, this 3D Blu-ray ripping software offers fast speed, excellent output quality, and even entitles users to freely customize the output videos by changing video/audio parameters, trimming, cropping, adding video effect/watermark freely.  The equivalent Mac version is Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac, which can help you convert 3D Blu-ray on Mac OS X (macOS Sierra included) with ease. Just download the right version and follow the step-by-step guide to rip and play 3D Blu-ray films on Oculus Rift (DK2) with 3D effect.

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 How to rip 3D Blu-ray movie for Oculus Rift

 One: Insert your 3D Blu-ray disc into your BD drive, run the 3D Blu-ray ripping software and click "Add Blu-ray" icon to load your movies.

Tip 1: The Blu-ray to Rift Converter allows you to select desired audio tracks from source Blu-ray movies. You can achieve the selections via opening the drop-down boxes of "Audio tracks" in each loaded Blu-ray file.

Two: Go to the Format bar and follow the path "Device > VR > OculusRift" for ripping 3D Blu-ray to H.264 MP4 video. This Blu-ray ripper for rift offers preset specific profiles for easy and direct Blu-ray to Oculus Rift conversion.
 
Oculus Rift video format

 Tip 2: If you like, you can go to "Settings" page to adjust codec, aspect ratio, bitrate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel as you like. For ripping 3D Blu-ray to view on Oculus Rift (DK2), the created 3D videos for the Cinema app should be in 720p (1280*720) with a higher bitrate around 5mbit/s. Higher resolutions for the specific format doesn't make the quality better but are a waste of power and battery life.

Three: After you have set output format, you could even click "Edit" button to open the Video Editor Window. As you see, you can turn to "3D" tab and choose "Left-Right" or "Top-Bottom" 3D mode. Also, you can trim, crop or adjust the video effect with the built-in video editor to get the very part and effect of the movie you want.

3D Effect

Four: Finally click the "Start" button under the preview window to begin converting 3D Blu-ray to Oculus Rift 3D MP4 format you select.

This converter can achieve 6X faster Bluray to Rift conversion with the help of NVIDIA CUDA, AMD APP and Intel Quick Sync graphics acceleration technologies. The encoding process will be finished soon. After conversion, you can find the converted 3D Blu-ray files under "Open" panel.

Now just enjoy 3D Blu-ray movies with Oculus Rift as you wish.

Which Video Formats Are Supported by Oculus Rift

2D videos: MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV 

3D movies: Side-by-side, Top-Bottome

360-degree videos

How to watch any videos including converted 3D SBS/TB MP4 on Oculus Rift (DK2)?

Step 1: Properly labeling 360 and 3D videos

Before moving 360 and 3D videos to the videos folder in Windows system drive, it must be labeled in the proper format for Oculus to render it correctly.

Label 3D videos:

For 3D panoramic videos, top-bottom, bottom-top, left-right and right-left stereoscopic video support are implemented using the following naming convention:

Naming conventions used to label your 3D panoramic video:

"_TB.mp4" or "_360_TB.mp4" - Top / bottom 3D 
"_BT.mp4" or "_360_BT.mp4" - Bottom / top 3D
"_LR.mp4" or "_360_LR.mp4" - Left / right side by side 3D
"_RL.mp4" or "_360_RL.mp4" - Right / left side by side 3D

Please add the proper naming convention to the end of your video file name.

Example: If your video file was MyCoolVideo.mp4, label it asMyCoolVideo_360_TB.mp4.

Label 360 videos:

360 videos in Oculus are implemented using spherical mapping to render panoramic videos. For 360 video to be compatible with Oculus, add "_360" to the end of your file name. Example: If your video file was MyCoolVideo.mp4, label it as MyCoolVideo_360.mp4.

Step 2: Import/Transfer your videos to Oculus Video

The Oculus Video app for Rift pulls video files from default Windows video folder. To transfer your video files to the Windows Video folder: 
  • Open your Windows System drive (this is generally your C: drive).
  •  Open the Users folder.
  • Select your user profile.
  • Locate and open the Videos folder and move your videos here.
The next time you launch Oculus Video, your videos will automatically appear in the "My Videos" section.

Step 3: Start to watch Movies On The Oculus Rift

By default, the Rift only allows apps from the Oculus Store, which means SteamVR and Steam games wonr work.

Here we go:

1. Download and install VLC Player 
2. Download and install VR Player
3. You then need to download the DK2 Tracker (Hosted here case it is removed from where I got it from) for motion tracking with the player

4. Expand the .zip and copy to the following location (or wherever you installed VR Player): C:Program Files (x86)VR PlayerTrackers

5. Open up VR player and set the tracker that you just copied as follows:

dk2 tracker

Depending on the content you wish to view you have a few options. Here are some examples:

1. Set up Oculus as extended Desktop the Rift Display Mode program 
2. Ensure your windows monitor is setup so your rift is secondary.
3. For 3D movies such as Big Hero 6:

Menu - Media - Format - Side By Side 
Menu - Media - Projection - Plane

4. If your movie is not 3D
Menu - Media - Format - Mono
Menu - Media - Projection - Plane

5. To open a movie select: 
Menu - File - Open File - With VLC

6. Browse to your selected movie.

7. Now that the movie is running you need to move the video screen onto your Oculus screen.

In my case the Oculus is my second monitor to the left. So I hit these keys:

Hit Windows Key + Cursor Key Left (Do this twice, this moves the window to your Oculus)

Hit Windows Key + Cursor Key Up (This maximizes the window)

8. Put on headphones and enjoy!

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