Tag: VR Production - Eric Cheng
Eric Cheng

Tag: VR Production

Encoding VR 360 and 180 immersive videos for Oculus Media Studio and sideloading into Oculus Quest and Go

If you're encoding immersive video to upload to Oculus Media Studio, you'll want to target your encodes to match the specs for Oculus Media Studio...

OC6 Talk / The 3Ds of Immersive Media: Discover, Design and Distribute

You spoke, we listened. Workflows, ingestion, and distribution for immersive-media creators have been riddled with friction over the past several years. Join the Facebook AR/VR Media team to learn about new opportunities and approaches for creation, ingestion, and distribution of your content...

VR180 Camera Shootout: Z CAM K1 Pro, Humaneyes Vuze XR, Insta360 EVO

Original footage from Z CAM K1 Pro, Humaneyes Vuze XR, and Insta360 EVO cameras. Spatial audio recorded using a Zoom H3-VR.

How to upload 3D-180 VR video to Facebook

In June 2018, Facebook announced support for 3D-180 video. Along with that post, Facebook made available a detailed PDF guide for how to stream or share 3D-180 video on Facebook. This post is a condensed version of that guide, and focuses on uploading video to personal profiles. Uploading 3D-180 video to a Facebook page (vs a personal profile) is relatively ...

Oculus Connect 5 | Video That Doesn’t Suck: Stereo(scopic) 3D-180° For VR

In this session recording from OC5, we'll cover best practices for creating 3D-180 video for distribution and playback in Oculus Go through a live workshop.

Oculus Go video demos using a media server and wi-fi access point

I’ve tested the Oculus Go VR headset extensively with Synology NAS units as media servers (using the Gallery app in the headset), and it’s worked flawlessly for videos, even at high bitrates. My standard method of loading video content onto my Go is to copy video file(s) over the network onto my Synology NAS, browse to the ...

Playing local and cloud-stored 360 and 180 videos in Oculus Go (VR headset)

I’ve been getting this question from a bunch of people, so I wanted to write it up for sharing. Oculus Gallery for Oculus Go is a wonderful player for playing back local and cloud-stored personal video. It supports 360 and 180 (mono and stereoscopic) and flat video, and also supports spatial audio. If a user’s goal is ...

Peak quality 3D 180 immersive video in Oculus Go and Gear VR

In March 2018, I shot and edited a stereoscopic 3D-180 mini-documentary about Bob Kramer, one of the most well-known kitchen knife makers in the world. This is a case study about the project, which was conceived to develop a workflow to enable a single person to generate high-quality stereoscopic video content for VR headsets.

Sloths in Panama, presented immersive VR / 3D-180

In February, I accompanied sloth scientist Bryson Voirin to Panama in search of sloths. Armed with a stereoscopic 180 camera and an ambisonic audio recorder, my goal was to capture footage of sloths in the most immersive way possible.