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Eric Cheng

Tag: Oculus

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...

Recording and livestreaming from Oculus Quest, with audio

Oculus Quest and Oculus Go have a screen recording feature built-in, but if you’re looking to livestream in realtime or to record with audio synchronization, you might find one of these options more useful. Also, you can use these methods to cast both video and audio to a display for use at parties and other ...

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.

How to migrate your old Oculus Rift’s application data to a new drive

Although Oculus Rift's newest updates allow the installation of game and content data on a drive of your choice, your existing data can't easily be moved.

Rolling cart for Oculus Rift VR setup

A lot of my friends are Mac users who are setting up dedicated Windows machines to run VR setups like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Many of them are trying to figure out where to put an extra desktop computer and all of the accessories necessary to accommodate a VR headset...

Transporter 3D Oculus Rift FPV Interface

EMR Labs is running an Indiegogo campaign for their Transporter3D, a device that facilitates FPV usage of the Oculus Rift (generally considered the most-immersive inexpensive head-mounted display available). The Transporter3D consists of a custom board that accepts 2D or 3D video input, converting video into a low-latency signal compatible with the Rift. The board also converts head-tracking output ...