Today we officially announce a partnership between Headjack and Pico Interactive, adding support for all Pico VR headsets, which are taking the world by storm. By the end of last year, more and more clients started asking if we could support Pico headsets in Headjack, so we decided to look into this company. It turned […]
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In this Update, the Template Marketplace takes center stage, as the all-new Essentials templates have been engineered from the ground up to tackle any use case you throw at them. All of the Essentials are easily brandable, have a scalable UI design, and can hold an unlimited number of projects. Use the Essentials to get […]
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Since the beginning of this year we’ve been receiving more and more requests from clients for a so called “kiosk mode”. Kiosk mode is essentially a way to show a VR experience in the most foolproof way possible, by only allowing a VR headset to run one specific app, which automatically starts when you boot […]
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Last year our focus was on adding new features, like streaming spatial audio and supporting custom FOV videos, but in this latest release we shifted the focus to you, the user. We asked ourselves how we could make the process of building an app as smooth and as fast as possible, especially for first-time users. […]
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We launched the public version of Headjack about 2 years ago, and have changed our pricing multiple times during that period. Finding the right price point for a SaaS product is hard, but crucial. In the beginning, all you have is a hunch, pricing pages of competitors, and an endless amount of highly interesting, but […]
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The sheer abundance of 3D modeling tools and file formats is overwhelming, and picking the best 3D model format for your AR application can therefore be rather frustrating and confusing. Every file format has different features and limitations, some can only be exported from specific (and expensive) software tools, and not all of them can […]
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As a software as a service company, Headjack generates revenue from monthly subscription payments. However, people obviously want to try before they buy. There are several options in this case, for example: 30-day trial period of the full product, like Adobe Free until certain usage limits, like Amazon AWS and MailChimp Free until a certain […]
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When Hollywood needs a high-end VR rig or custom built technology, they contact Radiant Images. That’s why we are proud to announce that Radiant Images has officially partnered with Headjack to give their premium clientele access to an easy, fast and reliable way to distribute their VR content in the highest possible quality. This partnership […]
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Estimated reading time: 36 minutes It’s been a while since our last blog post, not because we were out of inspiration, but mostly because this one took waaaaaaaaayyyy longer than anticipated to write. To start at the beginning, let’s move back a little over a year, to January 2016 to be precise. At that time […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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We all know the VR market is still in its early days, and this gives an incredibly interesting view of the emergence of new distribution methods for this medium. Numerous “Netflix of VR” platforms are currently competing head to head, but maybe a different model altogether will win out in the end? Only time will […]
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The cinematic VR market is finally at a point where there are camera’s available in the wild to shoot stereoscopic 360º content with. There is the awesome looking Jaunt ONE, the pricey Nokia OZO, the Google/GoPro JUMP rig, Facebook’s open-source camera, or if you like stitching and making your life difficult, our custom 16-camera GoPro […]
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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 […]
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A while ago we wrote an article covering the basics of live streaming 360 degree video to VR headsets. That article was written after we were asked to build a VR app capable of playing a 360º live stream, which taught us a lot, but meant we did not have to do the stressful work […]
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We started Purple Pill VR with two people and an idea. Now, two years later, we finished about 15 360º 3D productions, built a fully functioning multi-platform video player application, and expanded the team with 6 extra employees. Things are moving fast, and keep moving faster as the VR market is picking up speed. This […]
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For over a year now, we have been producing high-quality 360º 3D video content for virtual reality headsets here at Purple Pill VR. We plan and script a production, shoot it using our (open-source) 16-GoPro rig, and then spend anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of weeks stitching and editing the videos. […]
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One of the most time consuming and frustrating tasks we encountered during our first 360 3D video productions was finding the optimal encoding settings for each of the currently available VR headsets. Each platform supports different resolutions, frame rates, codecs, and bitrates. This article explains the settings we started with, what we learned from analyzing […]
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