Over the last couple of months, we entirely dedicated ourselves to rethinking and rebuilding our video transcoding pipeline. This update makes it possible to upload a single master video and let us transcode it to various formats for both streaming and downloading, guaranteeing maximum resolutions across all of your distribution channels.

We have added transcoding profiles specifically targeting mobile devices, both stand-alone and PC-based headsets, and various streaming and HQ downloading profiles for all these different devices. They work for both new videos and videos that are already uploaded, so head over to the Headjack CMS and push all of those freshly transcoded pixels to your device of choice.

After all the VR platforms, now all mobile devices and tablets received the Headjack Link treatment as well, making it possible to watch your videos stored in the Headjack CMS no matter what device you have at hand. The Headjack Mobile Link App has a user interface specifically designed for mobile devices and supports various video formats in standard, magic window, and cardboard mode.

Combined with our new video transcoding profiles, this is by far the easiest way of distributing your video to a broader audience or non-technical users, and the quickest method to review your Headjack app and content without having to put on a headset.

Headjack Link for Mobile is now available on the App and Play Store from the link below, so grab it while it's hot.

Together with the new product above, we also pushed a new update of our SDK for developers to enable new features and fully support all the new transcoding profiles. We took special care to make sure all of these changes are backwards compatible with previously created apps, but if you would like to take full advantage of this update, please start a new cloud build or integrate the latest SDK in your existing apps.

Please check out the changelog below to see what has changed in the 4.0 version of our SDK.

Oculus finally pulled the curtain from their much anticipated App Lab storefront. Despite our efforts to make sideloading apps to the Oculus Headsets frictionless for our customers, this has always been a significant roadblock in the XR distribution chain.

Luckily these days are behind us now and not a minute too soon. No more sideloading, no more complicated developers permissions, and thank god, no more command line. Read our comprehensive guide on how to submit your first Headjack App Oculus App Lab below.