Has anyone watched the demo video with the fields, fish and mountains etc. Have you noticed that it appears to be 3Dish. Not cinema 3D but the effect is there. Everyone that I show sees the same effect. Some 3D movies (Avatar etc) look great.
Has anyone else noticed this? Is this a software thing or hardware?
RustySpoon80 said:
Has anyone watched the demo video with the fields, fish and mountains etc. Have you noticed that it appears to be 3Dish. Not cinema 3D but the effect is there. Everyone that I show sees the same effect. Some 3D movies (Avatar etc) look great.
Has anyone else noticed this? Is this a software thing or hardware?
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I noticed that too! I thought it must have been my eyes playing tricks on me, Sony Mobile Bravia Engine? I'm not sure. Oh well.
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Yes, the video looks awesome and definately "quasi" 3D, but it is not really 3D, its a trick in the video editing by slightly changing the perspective point int he video and your eye naturally follows it giving the slight impression of 3D.
where I can find the video?
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where I can find the video?
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I found it in the app "play movies" (Big red icon) and went to personal videos tab. the movie is called "xperia_hd_landscapes.mp4"
Movie is here for all to see
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Hello all,
I looked around and did not see a thread like this at all, so I figured we could start one.
Personally I like to store lots of music videos on my phones to watch on busses or smoke breaks. I use a simple YouTube downloader to get my videos. I figure this list doesn't just have to be music videos, but that's all I've tested so far. I will update this post with any suggestions you throw in that you found converted 2d into 3d well. I only have one for the list so far.
MUSIC VIDEOS:
Kanye West-Power
(Just the way the music video is set up, a slow moving picture with the camera slowing zooming out, made for a really awesome 3d effect.)
LMFAO-Party Rock Anthem
(With a lot of what I've been trying to watch, I get a half decent 3d effect, mostly one thing propped forward, this video converted with lots of depths and watching it felt like the video was made in 3d)
If you know of any, do tell.
There's no such thing as a quality 3D conversion, even when done professionally at $100k per minute of footage.
Eh, I get what your saying, but quality in terms of what the phone can do.
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So are we talking about GB's new 3D converter or just when you push the 3D button on 2.2 during a video?
I'm just talking about the button pushing. Is there a gb rom that can convert videos? I just bought my phone off a person and it came rooted but I haven't picked a rom yet, any good suggestions? And how does this gb converter your talking about work?
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And is your name because you like fight club a lot?
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Yeah, TylDurden was inspired by fight club and, Man, I can't stand the 3D "conversion" on the Thrill. I didn't find it useful at all. Yes, GB on the Thrill apparently has a legit 3D Converter for games at least, I assume it works for videos as well.
Yeah, I've found a lot of the conversion to be rather lame, but these videos actually worked well. I'm going to be trying videos soon. I expect inception to do okay, and maybe the green lantern.
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RadDudeTommy said:
Yeah, I've found a lot of the conversion to be rather lame, but these videos actually worked well. I'm going to be trying videos soon. I expect inception to do okay, and maybe the green lantern.
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Try actual 3D movies on your phone and you'll see what I'm talking about. On second thought don't cause the conversion function will be broken to you like it is for me.
TylDurden said:
Try actual 3D movies on your phone and you'll see what I'm talking about. On second thought don't cause the conversion function will be broken to you like it is for me.
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... now explain a little further LOL
How did you get actual 3d movies to watch? Did you stream it from somewhere or have it transferred from a computer and watched in the video player? And what happened to your conversion? Your saying watching an actual video that is made for 3d screw something up with the phone?
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Okay I know for most 3D we need glasses and the type of 3D the is glasses free means you have to have the screen directly in front of you. I think we need a good glasses free 3D, agreed?
Well the earlier I saw a gif of different faces taking at different angles and as it merged from one photo to another (rather quickly) it give an illusion of 3D depth such as watching a 3DTV. So my theory is;
The frame from the left camera is shown then the same frame from the right camera replaces it, it does this but each frame is on screen half the time they would be normally would doing this give the illusion of 3D like 3DTV does, could anybody create a video that does this? Would this work?
Im thinking it could work but it would be a pain to do it. You will need 2 cameras,the settings excactly the same on them with speed of like 60 frames per second, maybe even closer to 100 fps. Then you will need to import it into some kick ass video editing software, sync the videos up, and tell the program to drop every 2nd frame and replace it with the frame from the other video.
They would have to film at 29.98fps on each camera, since that's what our eyes see. Then for different effects, just double, triple or whatever the framerate, and then merge the two vids with the frames alternating, then we might see 3D
or you could do this
There is a display that shows holographic 3D without glasses, but it's ridiculously expensive and impractical for now. Tech is on the way though.
3D gives me a headache....
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3d? What 3d?
I watched movies in 3d since like...never I think (I've wanted to but I can't ). But meh, what so interesting about those conventional 3d anyway? I'm still waiting for universal holographic projection to comes out.
drpsyko said:
3d? What 3d?
I watched movies in 3d since like...never I think (I've wanted to but I can't ). But meh, what so interesting about those conventional 3d anyway? I'm still waiting for universal holographic projection to comes out.
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Nothing special about 3D, it's just meh.
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Nothing special about 3D, it's just meh.
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Yeah. Kinda reminds me of a TV program here in the UK a few years ago where they went out to a shopping centre and asked normal people to try on some 3D glasses. The reactions of some people who didn't get the irony; "Oh no, I don't like those. I'd rather carry on living life with 2D vision"
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Yeah. Kinda reminds me of a TV program here in the UK a few years ago where they went out to a shopping centre and asked normal people to try on some 3D glasses. The reactions of some people who didn't get the irony; "Oh no, I don't like those. I'd rather carry on living life with 2D vision"
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lol, I have no idea why everything with the word 3D sells that much
Did anybody tried to play them using vr?
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darekz said:
Did anybody tried to play them using vr?
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you can still see sub-pixels because of the magnification. it's still great nevertheless.
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you can still see sub-pixels because of the magnification. it's still great nevertheless.
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the subpixels make me pine for a note 5 with a 4k screen, but still impressed with how polished the presentation is, really a great experience. hands down worth the $200 just for movies if you have a note 4. better than my sony hmz-t3. now someone hurry and make it netflix, dish anywhere, play movies, amazon compatible... and limelight for video game streaming of course, then i will be super happy.
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the subpixels make me pine for a note 5 with a 4k screen, but still impressed with how polished the presentation is, really a great experience. hands down worth the $200 just for movies if you have a note 4. better than my sony hmz-t3. now someone hurry and make it netflix, dish anywhere, play movies, amazon compatible... and limelight for video game streaming of course, then i will be super happy.
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hmm, maybe "sub-pixels" is a poor choice of word... it's more like the spacing between the pixels i'm seeing. and i loaded up a 4k video and it looked odd. i'll need to try it again using the 'void theater' rather than the other ones since it's the "largest" screen.
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hmm, maybe "sub-pixels" is a poor choice of word... it's more like the spacing between the pixels i'm seeing. and i loaded up a 4k video and it looked odd. i'll need to try it again using the 'void theater' rather than the other ones since it's the "largest" screen.
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2D movies don't need to be larger than 720p as that is the highest resolution you can see on the screen in the Oculus cinema. Everything higher just burns unnecessary battery life.
360 videos can be higher res tho.
Everyone saw this nice addition yet? Was really nice specially the Rosie and the New Zeeland sports 360 videos.
However after playing 5 videos in a row I got a message that my gear vr needs to cool down for optimal performance. Is this a Exynos issue in the im360VR app? Or does it happen to SD as well?
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When experiencing this one make sure you discovered the possibility to turn through your gear vr-touchpad.
Makes it a lot easier and less turning head while watching the Rosie vid to watch who is talking or jumping off that aeroplane facing backwards trying to turn your head 180 degrees.
This functionality is only available in im360VR and not in Oculus 360 videos to me, is there a way to turn your "start position" there other than reorienting? Would be nice... maybe with some game pad?
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These videos are terribly out of focus and barely watchable.
I don't think they are that bad, some of them are not well put together 360 because you can see the edges where the pictures are merged, if that's what you mean with out of focus.
But still nice addition with new experiences.
Not too many decent "real world/person" 360 experiences expect for cirque de soleil and evolution of verse is also really well done though it's also has animation.
All the other animated and games are better in many ways with less obvious pixeling effect. But it's a nice idea visiting real places through the vr 360. And this does that.
And as said nice functionality with choosing which direction to face using the gear vr touchpad.
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I don't think they are that bad, some of them are not well put together 360 because you can see the edges where the pictures are merged, if that's what you mean with out of focus.
But still nice addition with new experiences.
Not too many decent "real world/person" 360 experiences expect for cirque de soleil and evolution of verse is also really well done though it's also has animation.
All the other animated and games are better in many ways with less obvious pixeling effect. But it's a nice idea visiting real places through the vr 360. And this does that.
And as said nice functionality with choosing which direction to face using the gear vr touchpad.
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I'm surprised you're comparing Felix&Paul / VRSE content with this. This is just spherical video, while the other is 3D spherical video, which is infinitely more complex to achieve.
There is a ton of spherical video available (there's a whole topic of links here), but the immersion is completely inferior to actual, properly stitched 3D spherical.
PS: Which part of Evolution of Verse do you reckon is not animation?
Yes that is true didn't mean to compare them as in that they are equal in any way, just the type of content I was thinking of, closer to real world experiences than say temple run. And it doesn't apply to Ev.o.v. now that I think about it. I guess all of it is animation but the start shows a view as if it was real and done nicely, it's not a gaming environment or cartoon environment if you know what I mean, more real. But the rest with pattern & colors in the sky and the train and ending it is really pure animation and not even meant to look real.
There is a ton out there yes but when it is added in Oculus store it is usually some kind of quality check and better than the average video you'll find which I find this was also.
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Yes that is true didn't mean to compare them as in that they are equal in any way, just the type of content I was thinking of, closer to real world experiences than say temple run. And it doesn't apply to Ev.o.v. now that I think about it. I guess all of it is animation but the start shows a view as if it was real and done nicely, it's not a gaming environment or cartoon environment if you know what I mean, more real. But the rest with pattern & colors in the sky and the train and ending it is really pure animation and not even meant to look real.
There is a ton out there yes but when it is added in Oculus store it is usually some kind of quality check and better than the average video you'll find which I find this was also.
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Unfortunately that quality check guy fell into a coma when they released half of the Milk VR content heh.
You really should check airpano, quite a bit of their stuff is superb, if not for the 2d bit. Then also Fassbender stuff, the new beach one is quite a relaxing experience.
Then also rest of Felix & Paul stuff (you only mentioned Zarkana), and if you're the experimental type, hack yourself some JauntVR videos (all of them are live-action spherical 3D, just not as good as F&P at stitching).
Thanks for great tips will check.
Anyone know if the overheat is more common/happens faster on exynos since to me it happened in this regular 360 videos as well as in games like herobound after a while. Hopefully it is better in Android L.
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JNetwork said:
Thanks for great tips will check.
Anyone know if the overheat is more common/happens faster on exynos since to me it happened in this regular 360 videos as well as in games like herobound after a while. Hopefully it is better in Android L.
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Sure, VRSE video takes the cake on mine. I started a habit of taking the back out - makes it a little bit cooler and also easier to remove the battery one it hangs like a depressed banana. Guess we should start installing fans.
PS: If you quote someone they get an notification so that they know someone has responded to them.
Im running mine in power saving mode and never get overheating message. It doesnt affect performance of watching 360 videos untill they are in 4k resolution. With power saving enabled and 4k 360 video being played there are frames skipped while moving head around.
On the other note. Is there a way do move videos downloaded in Im360vr to memory card and still play them while using them with im360vr app? Maybe easier way is to reencode them to mp4 format readable by "regular" 360 videos app? Seems like im360vr videos are over 1 gigabyte in size.
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Ok gonna try power saving, you enable CPU performance limit then, and nothing else?
Frames skipped is not optimal but until overheating is solved it'll do if it's only on 4k vids.
Yeah most of them are around or just over 1GB. Gonna try and see if it works moving them, could be that they need mod for it to work.
I'm also interested in vice versa, moving 360 to the im360VR folder to enable touchpad function but doubt it will work without mod/reencoding
Will check back when tried.
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Try this experiment. Place a normal video in the 360 folder and watch it. You will see that you can actually pan as in a 360 video but the image is quite out of focus and zoomed in despite being completely clear viewed in Oculus Cinema. Now place a normal 360 video in your My Videos folder. Perfectly clear although odd looking.
Perhaps the focus problems in 360 videos is due to zooming?
Anyone else having issues of downloading these videos? I look at the download button and tap the headset and I get nothing!
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Anyone else having issues of downloading these videos? I look at the download button and tap the headset and I get nothing!
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Same here.
The only thing that works for me is the streaming from the office. (The lights are on today)
Did anyone experience changes in the content of im360VR ?
3-4 days ago there has been a huge variety of different scenes, maybe about 10-15 different videos to download and now there is only a few.
I am not sure whether i screwed up my content library, due to deleting some of the content with the note 4 standard filemanager app and not inside the im360's app.
Uninstalling and reinstalling the im360VR app didn't help.
Looks like immersive media changed the content...
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Anyone else having issues of downloading these videos? I look at the download button and tap the headset and I get nothing!
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I just read a post in the Oculus forum by Domen Lo saying to make sure you are using wi-fi.
I turned my wi-fi on and now I am able to download.
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I just read a post in the Oculus forum by Domen Lo saying to make sure you are using wi-fi.
I turned my wi-fi on and now I am able to download.
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Hehe, yay.
I have been trying to watch vr videos in YouTube in the Samsung internet app. 2d and 2d 360 videos work fine.
If I try to watch a 3d video, there are all. Sorts of problems. The stereoscopic image is way off, and usually there is a black pop out video window on top of the video. Anyone else experienced this?
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Yeah, I'm experiencing it as well. Odd thing is, it works on some videos, just not all videos. It's like the aspect of the sbs frames is too wide on some and the algorithm for stitching the image is compensating. It's also very painful to watch the broken 3d content, instant headache. Hopefully youtube will come out with an official app that will adjust it.
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Yeah, I'm experiencing it as well. Odd thing is, it works on some videos, just not all videos. It's like the aspect of the sbs frames is too wide on some and the algorithm for stitching the image is compensating. It's also very painful to watch the broken 3d content, instant headache. Hopefully youtube will come out with an official app that will adjust it.
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Yea I've resorted to using the cardboardforgearvr app and just using the YouTube app. That works a lot better but there isn't a way to browse for videos with the headset on.
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