As a 360º video producer, you’ve most likely been in the situation where you’re doing a demonstration with multiple VR headsets, or maybe you’re even running a VR cinema where groups of people can watch 360º content at the same time. The issue here is that when one person is still in the middle of
I recently compared the encoding settings used by several leading VR distribution platforms, including YouTube, Jaunt, Littlstar and Samsung VR. The conclusion: apart from YouTube, all of these major platforms still rely on the 14 year old (!!) H.264/AVC codec, instead of the more recent and much more efficient H.265/HEVC or VP9 codecs, resulting in
The following tutorial guides you through the steps to generate a keystore file required to build an Android app for submission to the Google Play Store. We will be using the software KeyStore Explorer to generate the keystore file and Headjack to build the Cardboard VR Play Store App. The screenshots in this tutorial were
Ever received the annoying “Thread priority security exception. Make sure the APK is signed.” message when trying to open a Gear VR app that did not come from the Oculus Store? Well, there can be three reasons for this message: The app does not contain any Oculus signature (osig) files The app contains Oculus signature files, but
We worked closely with the producers of the Fifty Shades Darker: The Masquerade Ball VR experience, to help them create a Headjack-powered app for Gear VR. To maximize eyeballs, this spicy piece of VR content was spread out to nearly every outlet possible. From YouTube and Facebook, to Jaunt and Samsung VR, and even an embedded
The Challenge Create an intuitive interface for virtual reality video apps Prize Overview The VR Interface Competition is a $10.000 competition, challenging designers and developers from around the world to create an intuitive interface for virtual reality video apps. The person or team with the best interface receives $7500 in prize money and
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October 2014 I had dinner with a good friend of mine from high school, Thierry. He had been researching upcoming technologies to figure out how to bring an unforgettable trip to Villa Borghese in Rome to people’s living rooms. He believed VR was the answer, and convinced me to stop the businesses I was working
Headjack allows you to easily create and manage 360º video apps to distribute your content to the various VR headsets in the highest possible quality. But what steps do you need to take to create your own fully functioning, multi-platform app? Read on to learn just that! Sign up The first step is
Oculus Rift, the headset that re-ignited the virtual reality hype. While more and more Rift games, apps, and experiences are being released every day, their documentation is not always as clear as you might like it to be when it comes to figuring out how to publish your own app to the public, especially since
