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How to watch 3D Movies on Gear VR

Step 1 - Create a folder called 3D under Oculus / Movies / My Videos /
[it'll look like this Oculus / Movies / My Videos / 3D]
Step 2 - Put your 3D movie in that new folder.
Step 3 - Get into Oculus Cinema and go to my videos. It'll be labled 3D on the top corner and the video will merge the two views when you watch it.
PS - I moved the whole Oculus folder from the gear vr sd card to my previous sd card. And I still don't know how to watch youtube other than downloading it from youtube and placing it in the 3D folder.
Have fun!
More Links
" I downloaded a few 360° videos from here that worked when copied to 360videos folder.
http://www.kolor.com/360-video/gallery " - Thanks Scoobrel for the link!
Also youtube Samsung and LG 3D video tech demos. They are really good with the 3D effects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuAhfXoRkX8
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Good to know. Thanks for sharing the info.
Is there a particular 3D format that is recommended for Note 4/Gear VR combination?
Thanks,
Osho

Surething!
Cough , For movies I already own, I just torrent any "3D" Movies. I heard Gravity looks awesome in 3D.

boodies said:
Surething!
Cough , For movies I already own, I just torrent any "3D" Movies. I heard Gravity looks awesome in 3D.
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So basically any SBS mkv should work right? How is the movie experience? Is it worth the 200$*add-on?

Toss3 said:
So basically any SBS mkv should work right? How is the movie experience? Is it worth the 200$*add-on?
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The experience is out of this world. Haven't had any real VR experience before and it is crazy awesome. It's very immersive, enough to trick my mind to thinking i'm actually there in 3d space. Like that one mogolian hut scene as well as the circus were very real. I see huge potential in this thing. Oh, about watching movies, yeah, you're in a virtual cinema which is really cool cause the lighting of the movie lights up the whole interior just like in the real movies. Youre gonna love it. yes, it's worth 200.
edit: haven't tried mkvs. The two 3d movies I had were mp4 and they worked.

boodies said:
The experience is out of this world. Haven't had any real VR experience before and it is crazy awesome. It's very immersive, enough to trick my mind to thinking i'm actually there in 3d space. Like that one mogolian hut scene as well as the circus were very real. I see huge potential in this thing. Oh, about watching movies, yeah, you're in a virtual cinema which is really cool cause the lighting of the movie lights up the whole interior just like in the real movies. Youre gonna love it. yes, it's worth 200.
edit: haven't tried mkvs. The two 3d movies I had were mp4 and they worked.
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Is there an app that allows you to watch the movies without the virtual cinema surroundings, as in just the movie in 3D? That's basically what I'm buying it for, so it would be good to know if it works without any sort of extra fluff that isn't needed.

Toss3 said:
Is there an app that allows you to watch the movies without the virtual cinema surroundings, as in just the movie in 3D? That's basically what I'm buying it for, so it would be good to know if it works without any sort of extra fluff that isn't needed.
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Yes, there are 4 options for the cinema setting. One is a blank dark screen so you don't see the seats etc.

I downloaded a few 360° videos from here that worked when copied to 360videos folder.
http://www.kolor.com/360-video/gallery
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scoobrel said:
I downloaded a few 360° videos from here that worked when copied to 360videos folder.
http://www.kolor.com/360-video/gallery
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Nice find! Ill let people know this in the op. Thanks!

boodies said:
Nice find! Ill let people know this in the op. Thanks!
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You're welcome. If I find anymore I'll share.
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Toss3 said:
Is there an app that allows you to watch the movies without the virtual cinema surroundings, as in just the movie in 3D? That's basically what I'm buying it for, so it would be good to know if it works without any sort of extra fluff that isn't needed.
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You can do that in the Void Cinema within the Oculus Cinema and also in the VR Gallery app.

I lost the SD card that came with my gear vr. I created the folders oculus/movies/myvideos/3d in my regular SD card but they still don't show. Any ideas?

perryh1 said:
I lost the SD card that came with my gear vr. I created the folders oculus/movies/myvideos/3d in my regular SD card but they still don't show. Any ideas?
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Not sure if you got this working yet, but did you create the 3d folder as "3d" or "3D" - not sure if it's case sensitive.

perryh1 said:
I lost the SD card that came with my gear vr. I created the folders oculus/movies/myvideos/3d in my regular SD card but they still don't show. Any ideas?
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my space videos

perryh1 said:
I lost the SD card that came with my gear vr. I created the folders oculus/movies/myvideos/3d in my regular SD card but they still don't show. Any ideas?
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My only guess is that you need the other files. I copied all the files over to my larger SD and works fine.
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MKV and AVI video works but NOT audio! It only works with mp4 (which are also what all the stock videos are). Anyone know how to get audio to work with other files???
Update: I can play the same 3D (SBS) MKV or AVI files with a regular app and audio is great. (also louder than VR app) If I place in front of the VR without plugging in I can watch the video in 3D fine.

Ok figured it out. If the movie is a sbs movie lets say gravity.mp4 then create a file called gravity.txt in that file put this
{
"format": "3D"
}
This works every time for me. In the oculus cinema app, under my videos you'll see the movie and it will say 3d in the top right corner

perryh1 said:
Ok figured it out. If the movie is a sbs movie lets say gravity.mp4 then create a file called gravity.txt in that file put this
{
"format": "3D"
}
This works every time for me. In the oculus cinema app, under my videos you'll see the movie and it will say 3d in the top right corner
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Weird people said that creating a 3D folder and putting the files inside is enough for it to work, but maybe not with all 3D videos?
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Update: I can play the same 3D (SBS) MKV or AVI files with a regular app and audio is great. (also louder than VR app) If I place in front of the VR without plugging in I can watch the video in 3D fine.
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What regular app do you mean? Do you mean a video player app outside of VR?

Perry, I'm not sure if this might be the cause but like I said, your folder is not even named correctly to begin with. It's NOT myvideos folder. It's my videos folder. There is a space between my and videos. You dont need all that txt crap. Gravity works 3d, ive already watched guardians of the galaxy 3d on it.

boodies said:
Perry, I'm not sure if this might be the cause but like I said, your folder is not even named correctly to begin with. It's NOT myvideos folder. It's my videos folder. There is a space between my and videos. You dont need all that txt crap. Gravity works 3d, ive already watched guardians of the galaxy 3d on it.
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I was just going by what oculus support wrote for the gear vr bro. The my videos thing was typo on my part, my bad. Worked for me thought I'd share. This is per their site
https://support.oculus.com/hc/en-us/articles/204372193-Watching-Your-Videos-in-Oculus-Cinema
For 3D video content, Oculus Cinema supports the side-by-side and top-to-bottom formats. To designate that a file is 3D, create a text file with the same file name as your video and place it in the same directory. For instance, for mymovie.mp4, create a text file mymovie.txt, with the following content:
{
"format": "3D"
}
Where the format can be any one of:
“3D” : 3D movie side-by-side
“3DLR” : 3D movie side-by-side (same as “3D”)
“3DLRF” : 3D movie side-by-side full screen
“3DTB” : 3D movie top-to-bottom
“3DTBF” : 3D movie top-to-bottom full screen
The next time you launch Oculus Cinema, your video should automatically appear in the “My Videos” section. If it doesn't, please check the instructions and try again.

Powerslash said:
Weird people said that creating a 3D folder and putting the files inside is enough for it to work, but maybe not with all 3D videos?
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What regular app do you mean? Do you mean a video player app outside of VR?
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Correct. For example MX Player will play MLK and AVI with audio fine. Oculus only plays mp4 with audio.

[Q] 360/3D Skyrim Game Play Video For GearVR

Hey guys,
Ok here is the thing, for over 3 years now I have held out on buying an Oculus rift, hoping the next few months the official customer version would be out, but that until now is yet to happen.
So I purchased the Gear VR to finally get to experience VR (since I know it wont affect me in buying the Oculus CV1) and boy am I blown away, but one thing I am dying to experience is how the world of Skyrim with its beautiful nature and giant mountains would look in VR.
Is there any way for me to shoot/screen capture a 360 and/or 3D video of game play in skyrim and view it through the gear VR to have a bit of what that experience would be like?
Thanks all :good:

There is an android app for Google cardboard being worked on to let you stream pc games in vr format to the phone, it's not natively compatible with the gear vr yet, and there is latency issues or course. It shows promise though. Your question made me wonder a follow up questtion: can someone make a pc program that let's you take a 360 photosphere video or at least photo from a game like skyrim? Like fraps, but a photosphere. That would be fantastic.

johnnobts said:
There is an android app for Google cardboard being worked on to let you stream pc games in vr format to the phone, it's not natively compatible with the gear vr yet, and there is latency issues or course. It shows promise though. Your question made me wonder a follow up questtion: can someone make a pc program that let's you take a 360 photosphere video or at least photo from a game like skyrim? Like fraps, but a photosphere. That would be fantastic.
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That is exactly what I was asking for
I know about the latency and stuff, and I know about the app you mentioned... I just wanted to be able to experience it much like you would watching a gameplay on youtube... except its a 360 video

3d blu-ray (frame packed) to Gear VR?

I have a few 3d blu-rays that I would love to watch in the Oculus Cinema. My understanding is that most 3d blu-rays are in the "frame packed" format but the Gear VR requires either side-by-side or top-to-bottom (top down). Is there any way to convert a frame packed blu-ray to a sbs or td MP4?
Thanks.
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It looks like this software might do it. Anybody have any experience with DVD Fab Blu-ray ripper for 3d?
http://www.dvdfab.cn/blu-ray-ripper.htm

Is this related to my issue?... Cannot play 3D video with top-down format. ... despite placing in appropriate directory, creating text file and changing file name...?

Not sure if this will help you with the top down video.....
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http://phandroid.com/2014/12/19/360-video-gear-vr/

Need to be mp4 with mp3 sound. Mkv are no go yet.
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darekz said:
Need to be mp4 with mp3 sound. Mkv are no go yet.
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No, MKV's work perfect....unless you're talking about something else?
All my rips are ripped straight from blu-ray into an MKV container with the only exception being that the audio is converted to 5.1 AAC (neroacc) from the DTS HD core file @ VBR- Quality 1.0 for best quality and stock video player compatibility. Only the video/audio files are in the MKV container, no subtitles etc etc.
20-30 GB per movie but the bit rate is worth it since you're so close to the actual screen hence the ability to see pixels. Anything under 20mbps bit rate is simply not sufficient enough when it comes to the black levels/darker scenes due to the close proximity. Original file is best for decent quality, and personally I noticed no change in battery life nor performance.
In regards to 3D, everything is the same except I convert to Top/Bottom. DVDfab will do just fine to convert to top/bottom.
To get 3D top/bottom working on the Gear VR, took me awhile to figure this out at first....
1. Connect the Note 4 to the computer.
2. Make a copy of one of the text files from one of the pre-loaded 3D trailers in the "Trailer" 3D folder
3. Rename it to the name of the movie file you want to use
4. Inside the text file, next to "title" rename it to the title of your movie file
5. Inside the text file, next to "format" put "3DTB" instead of "3DLRF"
6. Make sure you place the text file in the same folder as your movie, either in the
3D folder under Movies or Trailers.
(Note: you may or may not have to drag the text file to your desktop to make a copy and change the info. Just drag it back into the folder once done)
Hope this helps :good:

Why do you convert to top/bottom? SBS sould be better for VR since it would be shown as is on the screen.

ks-man said:
I have a few 3d blu-rays that I would love to watch in the Oculus Cinema. My understanding is that most 3d blu-rays are in the "frame packed" format but the Gear VR requires either side-by-side or top-to-bottom (top down). Is there any way to convert a frame packed blu-ray to a sbs or td MP4?
Thanks.
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It looks like this software might do it. Anybody have any experience with DVD Fab Blu-ray ripper for 3d?
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There are many other blu-ray ripping programs for ripping 3D Blu-ray to 3D videos which are compatible with Gear VR. I've the pleasure of using EaseFab's Blu-ray Ripper to finish my job. Have a try!

ks-man said:
I have a few 3d blu-rays that I would love to watch in the Oculus Cinema. My understanding is that most 3d blu-rays are in the "frame packed" format but the Gear VR requires either side-by-side or top-to-bottom (top down). Is there any way to convert a frame packed blu-ray to a sbs or td MP4?
Thanks.
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It looks like this software might do it. Anybody have any experience with DVD Fab Blu-ray ripper for 3d?
http://www.dvdfab.cn/blu-ray-ripper.htm
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Yes I use dvdfab to rip my 3D blu-rays to full 720p SBS mkvs. Don't get why anyone would use half-sbs 1080p, as that would result in worse quality, yet higher file sizes (you can see more than 960pixel on the horizontal axis, while you will be limited to 720 on the vertical).
EDIT: The resulting MKVs usually end up having audio sync issues on the Note 4, but just remux them with MKVtoolnix afterwards to solve the problem..

play 3D Blu-ray on Gear VR
As far as we know, Gear VR supports most conventional file formats like MP4, AVI, and FLV; however, Blu-ray format is not included. To play 3D Blu-ray with Gear VR, first you need to convert Blu-ray to Gear VR supported file type. And if you stick with 3D movie on Gear VR, you can rip Blu-ray to MP4 in side-by-side or top-to-bottom 3D formats.

To rip 3D Blu-ray movies to 3D 3BS MP4 and make your 3D Blu-ray playable on Gear VR for your own., a professional Blu-ray ripping tool is needed. Here, UFUSoft Blu-ray Ripper is higly recommended. With it you can rip any 3D Blu-ray to 3D SBS MP4 video for Gear VR with fast speed and high video quality.

Watching 3d movies on my gear vr is one of my favorite things.
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[Q] Just started researching today; few questions regarding movie watching

Just started researching this VR stuff today (no idea why), but I'm considering getting a VR for a Note 4. I'm not much of a gamer, so the primary use would be for watching 3D content and what not, but who knows if I'll get into the other stuff.
1. Do any of you solely use the Gear VR for movie watching? Is that your go to method of watching movies now?
2. I'm really not a fan of TouchWiz, and I've been reading that you can play 3D content using another 3rd party player. Is the 3D experience worse outside of the cinema app, or do you get the same immersion? Are any of you running alternate ROMs and happy with the Gear VR?
3. For 3D rips, obviously close to source is best. Are the ~2GB rips from torrent sites complete crap for the VR experience?
4. Is there anything in particular through hacking/experimenting that you found pretty cool?

I can only tell you for Gear VR 2 (Samsung S6), but Oculus Cinema should be the pretty same:
1) not sure. I watched for 2 hours 2d movie and the screen is too big (i think), you can not watch the whole screen at a time, at least not for details. If the movie uses cuts often, it is hard to adapt the new viewing angle that fast. Maybe with more training for myself...
2) you can use cardboard players (bad) or you have to recode 3d-sbs to 1920x520-sbs for example (so every side has right aspect ratio). Then you can play with mx-player but no lens correction. All cardboard players suffer on missing AC3 codec, needs to recode audio to mp3 or similar.
3) torrent site crap i do not know, use 1080p-sbs content (4-10 GB), that is good quality
4) Thats what we all are waiting for. At least an AC3-codec like for mx-player would be nice!

1) definitely not. Pixels (resolution) on such a huge virtual screen turned me off.

dimex said:
Just started researching this VR stuff today (no idea why), but I'm considering getting a VR for a Note 4. I'm not much of a gamer, so the primary use would be for watching 3D content and what not, but who knows if I'll get into the other stuff.
1. Do any of you solely use the Gear VR for movie watching? Is that your go to method of watching movies now?
2. I'm really not a fan of TouchWiz, and I've been reading that you can play 3D content using another 3rd party player. Is the 3D experience worse outside of the cinema app, or do you get the same immersion? Are any of you running alternate ROMs and happy with the Gear VR?
3. For 3D rips, obviously close to source is best. Are the ~2GB rips from torrent sites complete crap for the VR experience?
4. Is there anything in particular through hacking/experimenting that you found pretty cool?
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1. Yes and no - have a 120" projector screen so the gear vr doesn't really compare. But it is great in those situations where you don't have the option of using a large screen, or you only have a small lcd tv at home. The movie experience is pretty great on the gear vr especially if you re-enode your Blu-ray to full-sbs 720p movies.
2. Yes it is worse, so for now the cinema app is the best app.
3. 2Gb anything is crap when it comes to full movies.
4. Just remove the cushioning in order to get a much larger fov!

2) Kodi beats Oculus cinema hands down with network and 2d support.

Internet for Gear VR

Samsung are bringing out an internet explorer for the Gear VR.
It will support 360-degree and 3D video . It will also support HTML5 media playback.
Now for the question.
Will Plex work through the browser. If so, the Gear VR just got some serious extra awesomeness added.
It should be available December 2nd, so will test it as soon as it is available.

It is out now and according to others it will work on Plex.

Thresher said:
It is out now and according to others it will work on Plex.
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It does work with plex. Pins have to be entered as 4 individual #s, not one four digit number. The interface is as smooth as if using any other internet browser.
The bad:
Can't get rid of blue pointer dot
Blacks looks bad
cant increase size of screen
wouldn't be able to do 3D playback.

Anyone know how to make Youtube vid play in higher resolution?
Thanks in advance

knite75 said:
Anyone know how to make Youtube vid play in higher resolution?
Thanks in advance
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Buy some good resolution Camera or Smartphone shoot it with high resolution and upload it

Internet usage, poor Gear VR resolution. The letters blurred.