Posts by mikedunn

Hi,

It has been a while since anyone has asked about embedding 360 vimeo videos.

I came across this recently, they are streaming vimeo into webvr

https://github.com/vimeo/vimeo-webvr-demo


Of course you need a vimeo pro account for direct file access.


Klaus , Is there any was to do this with krpano ( or in the near future?). I think it would be a fantastic feature.


If anyone is interested here is a link to the vimeo api. I have trying to integrate it via php but with no luck.


https://developer.vimeo.com/api/start[/size]

Cheers
Mike


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Hi,

There were a few people asking how to get a internal web server running on the Oculus Go in another thread After a few hours I got it sorted. A little involved but worth it. Load times have reduced dramatically.

Overview.

1 Install Oculus TV
2. Install adb drivers
3. Sideload Kodi
4. Sideload ksweb
5. Set up servers (http ftp etc )
6. Enjoy.

Detailed

1. Install Oculus TV via Store.
2. Lots of guides around to tell you how to sideload. http://flickstiq.com/sideload-content-on-oculus-go/
3. Apps not created for Android TV do not show up as "installed apps" Running them from within Kodi gets around this.
4. There are a few android servers apps around ksweb seems good. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xeustechnologies.android.kws[/size]

You will need the apk. ( google ksweb server apk)
Sideload using same process as 2. above.

5. Inside of Oculus Go . Start up Oculus TV. Scroll down and open Kodi. Left hand menu. Addons then Android Apps . Look for KSWEB

Setup new user for FTP access. ( I changed the "Path to external storage" in setting so ftp can access http root.)

Upload files viea you favorite ftp app. (filezilla of course) [size=10]View in Browser localhost:8080

I have only just got this going so still have a lot of testing to do. Really keen to see how it handles video. Also php.

Pretty excited. Good luck

Mike

Is there a simple way to show the tooltips on a hotspot all the time?

I have looked at thesolution here

tooltips hotspots to display text all time

but cannot get it to work with your tooltips plugin.

Thanks
mike

Is there a simple way to show the tooltips on a hotspot all the time?

I have looked at thesolution here but cannot get it to work with your tooltips plugin.

Thanks
mike

Hi,

This has been asked a few times in the past. ( vr with 360 videos) but I cannot find a definitive answer.

In that thread Klaus has said on Jan 24th 2016, "this will be possible with the next krpano release." Has it been resolved?

I want to include multiple ( 30+ ) 360 videos in a single tour driven by the webvr interface. I am aware of the need to start the first video when touching the ENTER VR button. This works for a single 360 video but I cannot get it to work for more.

Is there a definitive solution to solve this problem? I have spent many hours trolling the forums and trying different approaches but am at a loss.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Mike

Awesome. More information please!

http://threejs.org/ for anyone else looking

Can you it raytrace reflections ? ( black reflections in demo.).

M

Hi,

I am trying to create some embedded animations that work with the Oculus Rift.

Utilizing the code from Tuur here:

Example/Tutorial - Extract a Distorted Hotspot from any kind of Pano Image (with perfect pixel alignment)

I created this test ( xml )

( Warning. Big files. No image optimisation yet. I'm just getting it to work)

The animation works fine in a desktop chrome ( Chromium WebVR Build ) but once you send it into VR mode the animations are not there.

It is just using distorted hotspots. Any one got any ideas about what is going wrong? I can't see anything in the release notes that state that it wont work.

Klaus?

Cheers
Mike

Hi All,
There have been a few threads on this topic but not a lot of detail about best practices for workflow.

Here is a small example I have been working on. I have a few questions for those of you that have been down this path.


Here is my workflow so far.


1. Shoot pano. D800, Samyang 14mm used for both stills and video. ( probably not the best lens choice for the video but I wanted to get the workflow right with the same lens first.
2. Using the "perfect pixel alignment" technique, export image that is slightly larger than video frame in ptgui.
3. In Nuke ( or AE ) use a grid warp to align the video image to the image exported from ptgui.
4. Create soft edge matte in around video image merged over background still from ptgui.
5. Render frames out of nuke.
6. Export mp4
7. Embed in video hotspot in krpano ( krpano-1.17.5 )


Example here.


http://www.phimedia.com/WebSites/Video/tour.html

Question 1 . With the mpg version, in chrome I see dark edges around the video. These are net evident in FF. is there any way to remove these in Chrome?


There is also some colour shift in the video that I assume is due to the mp4 compression as tif files that were exported were seamless. Next I tried with alpha to soften edge.

I would have liked to have used alpha in an flv but Adobe dropped flv export support in CC. I have a laptop with CS6 which still had flv support but I cannot get krpano to load the flv's ( either with or without alphas).

Can anyone who has successfully embedded flv's with alpha shed some light?

As CC no longer exports flv's is there another option for alpha?


Example ( broken ) here


http://www.phimedia.com/WebSites/Video/tour_alpha.html


xml


http://www.phimedia.com/WebSites/Video/tour_alpha.xml



Link to flv


http://www.phimedia.com/WebSites/Video/video_with_alpha.flv

Any comments about my workflow would be welcome.


Thanks
Mike

Hi,
I am having trouble breaking a wait() command.

http://112.140.180.21/~watersh1/about/virtualtour

http://112.140.180.21/~watersh1/imag…ltires/tour.xml

The tour is set up to autotour, but when a user tries to interrupt they must wait for the wait (10); command .

"if(step == 1, loadscene('scene_WS01',null,MERGE,BLEND(3)); oninterrupt( action(lookinterrupt) );wait (load); wait(blend);wait(10); trace(step););"

I have read here
Wait blocks clicking on link

on how I should use the delayedcall() function but I cannot seem to get it right.

Excuse the messy code in my xml I have been trying lots of options.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Mike