VR - subtitles and, eventually, layers

Hi all,

Hope you're all good

Been working to get a subtitle "sort of" plugin going... basically it has an array of "actions" and a timecode and when the movie passes it starts that action.

I got 2 actions for now which are show text and play audio. Multiple actions can be added to the array because it is written there.

The reason why I have this is because I have a 360 video in multiple languages and, to make it more accessible to hearing unpaired, I added subtitles.

Texts are fed up to a mini engine that splits words into a given number of lines , with a given number of characters and timecode is inserted into my cue array based on a "characters per second" read... do i can feed it with a complete text and the subtitles are automatically split and added to the timeline.

I had some help of AI and I think it got ok. At least I am happy :)

For VR I'll get inspiration on the hover menu but , nowadays, now that the cross menu is here only for compatibility/phones and vr headsets are cheaper and very public.... doesn't it start to make sense to keep the layers being shown in VR ? my subtitles layers would just be a layer in VR too.

I could click something in the top right to do something... or mute.. or whatever. Might be another kind of layer.

I would end my movie with a poster-like or with a regular movie that would take over all the screen even if the person would look around.

Layers could be clicked since there are controllers and hands pinching in the air

Hope this idea makes sense and it helps the community.

All the best

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I use hotspots with flying an ox oy for such things, not ideal but works nice .

Look for the vr cockpit example

Tuur

found it, works good. now I understood what you meant by ox and oy , wasn't making much sense at beginning

if anyone wants to try it ->
VR cockpit © by Virtual Tuur

thank you

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Thanks, i'll make an update and better example of it when i have time..

I actually forgot about it, sort of..

Tuur

I tested and it worked but it kind of bothered me to keep looking down to read. it is hard
while in the tv your eyes are all on the screen and you simply see it in VR is like you look at the tv and have to lookdown to your knees to read the subtitles
Even placing it a bit bellow the horizon and keeping them there while your head moves make a bit of eye effort

I ended up placing them exactly where you are looking and not moving them so the viewer can move the eyes and the head as needed

thank you for your inputs.