Simple VR Video Player
Watch your videos in virtual reality with Simple VR Video Player, an easy to use video player with a full motion controller interface. Simple VR Video Player can play your saved video files with 2D/180°/360° and 3D/SBS/OU support.
The software was designed specifically for the HTC Vive with a “motion controls first” design philosophy. Unlike other VR video players, our interface is keyboard and mouse free so you can be completely immersed in VR without having to take off your headset to reach for obscure keyboard shortcuts.
Play/Pause/Stop buttons using full hand motion controls and simple point & drag controls to customize your screen size and distance
Maximize your 180 and 360 degree video experience with full customizable settings for Distance, Tilt, and Height
Find your files quickly with our file browser rendered in 3D space
Achieve your perfect scale and save your settings that are unique for each video.
Do you want to watch a movie on a 100ft screen? Now you can can with a flick of your wrist using Simple VR Video Player’s drag and resize controls using motion controllers.
Even though Simple VR Video Player was designed to be easy and simple to use application for normal users, under the hood, there is a tremendous amount of advanced features you can explore and experiment with, especially for power users with high-end computers.
Super sampling is a brute force rendering technique that greatly improves image quality in virtual reality headsets. It works by rendering the 3D scene an X percentage higher than the physical resolution of the display and then resizing/downsampling the image back to your display. This results in an expensive form of high quality anti-aliasing that delivers a cleaner looking rendered image.
You can fine tune super sampling settings in real-time.
Simple VR Video Player is excited to introduce Super Enhanced Mode! Sharpen your video and drastically improve image fidelity by enabling “Super Enhance” in the options. The Super Enhance technique utilizes an intelligent sharpening algorithm to enhance contrast and details while maintaining image quality.
This feature when combined with high Super Sampling effectively upscales, sharpens, and downscales the video for greatly improved clarity especially on virtual reality headsets.
Supports Microsoft Media Foundation, DirectShow, LibVLC, and PopMovie for multiple video decoding solutions.
Simple VR Video Player was built to take advantage of multiple video decoding engines in the backend to offer the greatest compatibility. As a general rule of thumb, if your Windows Media Player can play the movie, so can Simple VR Video Player.
Media Foundation (Win 8/10) is a super optimized DX11 hardware accelerated decoder built into the latest versions of Windows with full h264 decoding support.
For more advanced users, you can change the video decoding engine to use another video backend such as DirectShow which allows you to use DirectShow decoders, filters, and splitters such as LAV and ffdshow. Just choose the best decoding option for you!
* Note: The player can’t play Blu-ray discs since they are DRM’d and encrypted!
We wanted to create the first simple and easy to use VR video player to take advantage of the Vive and it’s hand motion controls. We also wanted to make it powerful and customizable using familiar controls. No other video player for the Vive compares to Simple VR Video Player for its simplicity and ease of use.
For more detailed information on features, go here:
* Thanks to to the Blender Foundation’s Big Buck Bunny and Tears of Steel for their open source films used in our videos and screenshots.
Watch your videos in virtual reality with Simple VR Video Player, an easy to use video player with a full motion controller interface. Simple VR Video Player can play your saved video files with 2D/180°/360° and 3D/SBS/OU support.
The software was designed specifically for the HTC Vive with a “motion controls first” design philosophy. Unlike other VR video players, our interface is keyboard and mouse free so you can be completely immersed in VR without having to take off your headset to reach for obscure keyboard shortcuts.
Play/Pause/Stop buttons using full hand motion controls and simple point & drag controls to customize your screen size and distance
Maximize your 180 and 360 degree video experience with full customizable settings for Distance, Tilt, and Height
Find your files quickly with our file browser rendered in 3D space
Achieve your perfect scale and save your settings that are unique for each video.
Do you want to watch a movie on a 100ft screen? Now you can can with a flick of your wrist using Simple VR Video Player’s drag and resize controls using motion controllers.
Even though Simple VR Video Player was designed to be easy and simple to use application for normal users, under the hood, there is a tremendous amount of advanced features you can explore and experiment with, especially for power users with high-end computers.
Super sampling is a brute force rendering technique that greatly improves image quality in virtual reality headsets. It works by rendering the 3D scene an X percentage higher than the physical resolution of the display and then resizing/downsampling the image back to your display. This results in an expensive form of high quality anti-aliasing that delivers a cleaner looking rendered image.
You can fine tune super sampling settings in real-time.
Simple VR Video Player is excited to introduce Super Enhanced Mode! Sharpen your video and drastically improve image fidelity by enabling “Super Enhance” in the options. The Super Enhance technique utilizes an intelligent sharpening algorithm to enhance contrast and details while maintaining image quality.
This feature when combined with high Super Sampling effectively upscales, sharpens, and downscales the video for greatly improved clarity especially on virtual reality headsets.
Supports Microsoft Media Foundation, DirectShow, LibVLC, and PopMovie for multiple video decoding solutions.
Simple VR Video Player was built to take advantage of multiple video decoding engines in the backend to offer the greatest compatibility. As a general rule of thumb, if your Windows Media Player can play the movie, so can Simple VR Video Player.
Media Foundation (Win 8/10) is a super optimized DX11 hardware accelerated decoder built into the latest versions of Windows with full h264 decoding support.
For more advanced users, you can change the video decoding engine to use another video backend such as DirectShow which allows you to use DirectShow decoders, filters, and splitters such as LAV and ffdshow. Just choose the best decoding option for you!
* Note: The player can’t play Blu-ray discs since they are DRM’d and encrypted!
We wanted to create the first simple and easy to use VR video player to take advantage of the Vive and it’s hand motion controls. We also wanted to make it powerful and customizable using familiar controls. No other video player for the Vive compares to Simple VR Video Player for its simplicity and ease of use.
For more detailed information on features, go here:
* Thanks to to the Blender Foundation’s Big Buck Bunny and Tears of Steel for their open source films used in our videos and screenshots.
Tutorials highlighting some of the features and how to use them here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/451650/discussions/0/154643249633675549/?tscn=1504738078
Media Foundation offers good suuport for most video formats. It comes as standard on both Windows 8 and 10. If you’re consered about installing additional decoders on your system then this is a good option.
You can also try libVLC. This is a codec library which has a wide range of built in video decoders and streaming options. This library is used in the popular video player VLC. It offers a larger range of video playback options than Media Foundation and doesn’t require decoders to be installed.
Whirligig VR Media Player Key Features:
1, Fisheye 100,110,120,130,140,150,160,170,180,190,200,210,220,230,240,250,260,270,280,300,310,320,330,340,350,360
2, Barrel 100,110,120,130,140,150,160,170,180,190,200,210,220,230,240,250,260,270,280,290,300,310,320,330,340,350,360. Barrel also has height degrees and squash options to get the perfect projection.
3, Cinema with options to curve height and width.
4, Home Cinema
5, Bedroom
6, Living Room
7, Luxury home cinema
8, Tilted planetarium
9, Level planetarium
10, Cube Map Horizontal Tee
11, Cube Map Horizontal
12, Cube Map Vertical Tee
13, Cube Map Vertical
14, Facebook Cube Map 3×2
15, Facebook Pyramid
16, GardenGnome Cube Map 3×2
17, Kodak PixPro SP360
18, LatLong 360×90
19, LG360
20, Octane
21, Panasonic A500
22, Ricoh Theta S
23, Samsung Gear 360
Tutorials highlighting some of the features and how to use them here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/451650/discussions/0/154643249633675549/?tscn=1504738078
Media Foundation offers good suuport for most video formats. It comes as standard on both Windows 8 and 10. If you’re consered about installing additional decoders on your system then this is a good option.
You can also try libVLC. This is a codec library which has a wide range of built in video decoders and streaming options. This library is used in the popular video player VLC. It offers a larger range of video playback options than Media Foundation and doesn’t require decoders to be installed.
Whirligig VR Media Player Key Features:
1, Fisheye 100,110,120,130,140,150,160,170,180,190,200,210,220,230,240,250,260,270,280,300,310,320,330,340,350,360
2, Barrel 100,110,120,130,140,150,160,170,180,190,200,210,220,230,240,250,260,270,280,290,300,310,320,330,340,350,360. Barrel also has height degrees and squash options to get the perfect projection.
3, Cinema with options to curve height and width.
4, Home Cinema
5, Bedroom
6, Living Room
7, Luxury home cinema
8, Tilted planetarium
9, Level planetarium
10, Cube Map Horizontal Tee
11, Cube Map Horizontal
12, Cube Map Vertical Tee
13, Cube Map Vertical
14, Facebook Cube Map 3×2
15, Facebook Pyramid
16, GardenGnome Cube Map 3×2
17, Kodak PixPro SP360
18, LatLong 360×90
19, LG360
20, Octane
21, Panasonic A500
22, Ricoh Theta S
23, Samsung Gear 360
Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
CPU | Intel i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350 equivalent or greater | Intel i7-3770 equivalent or greater |
VRAM | 4096 MB | 4096 MB |
RAM | 8 GB | 16 GB |
OS | Windows 7 SP1 / 8 / 10 | Windows 10 |
Graphics Card | Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 equivalent or greater | Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 equivalent or greater |
Direct X | Version 11 | Version 11 |
HDD Space | 250 MB | 250 MB |
Game Analysis | You will need at least 250 MB of free disk space to install Simple VR Video Player. An Intel Core i5-4590 CPU is required at a minimum to run Simple VR Video Player. Whereas, an Intel Core i7-3770 is recommended in order to run it. Provided that you have at least an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 graphics card you can play the game. But, according to the developers the recommended graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980. The minimum memory requirement for Simple VR Video Player is 8 GB of RAM installed in your computer. If possible, make sure your have 16 GB of RAM in order to run Simple VR Video Player to its full potential. Simple VR Video Player will run on PC system with Windows 7 SP1 / 8 / 10 and upwards. |