The same with Riftmax or VR Cinema 3D, of course i looooove this demos ´couse to be in the cinema gives you great inmersion in the feeling of big screen and outside 3D or 4D efect, but the quality of the video your are watching will never be as good as doing it directly with VLC Media Player using this trick.
This uses a big part of your oculus rift screen leaving not such space to the real video to watch, in the end the HD or HD 3D loses quality. Of course you can but the program proyects the screen to your eyes in a virtual space in black. I´ve try Gravity with amazing results, and dozens of SBS HD 3D demos in youtube. It will depends in your eyes, and the video you are watching. Besides the VR support, the difference between the Microsoft version of VLC and the regular one is that the Microsoft version doesnt support playing region protected optical media like DVDs or BluRays.
You always can change the size of the VLC window in any way to get better 3D feeling. It will install as a native windows player and works automatically with Edge etc. The release 3.0 of VLC introduces 360 video and high-quality 3D Audio rendering. Put on your Oculus and slowly make the VLC window bigger or smaller till you get the perfect 3D clear view. 3D Sound Labs, the 3D/VR Audio French specialist, and VideoLAN, the editor of the world's renowned VLC media player jointly announced their collaboration to bring world-class experience to 360 video and 3D audio content in the upcoming version of VLC. Now you want to make the VLC window bigger up and down in your pc screen, but in the way that looking thru your Oculus Rift feels confortable into a nice 3D experience. Open a SBS 3D file with VLC Media Player (full HD is great), now don´t use full screen with VLC, instead make a window in the middle of your pc screen and slowly make it wide till you´ve got your hole pc screen or just about. (of course from the oculus you will see two parts of your pc screen, don´t worry now) In terms of quality, there are few consumer media players more flexible than VLC. etc)įor ideal situation your pc has to be in duplicate screen with the oculus rift so you can watch your pc like always and see your pc from the oculus rift. The internet’s most reliable media player is getting its fourth major update. Now, a dialog box will appear like shown below, there click on the Video Effects tab. Click on Tools and select Effects and Filters.
Make sure that the movie you will be playing is a SBS (Side-By-Side) 3D movie. Run VLC Media Player and play the 3D SBS movie in it.
(opening files from your pc or opening a URL (copy/paste) from youtube. How To Watch 3D Movies on PC/Laptop Using VLC Media Player: 1.
You can watch your own videos from your pc or you can see videos directly from internet. You can use any video player to watch SBS 3D with your Oculus Rift DK1.