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Discussion in 'AR/VR (XR) Discussion' started by lordfong, Feb 6, 2015.

  1. lordfong

    lordfong

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    Hello fellow vr developers,

    I don't want to have this questions get lost in details, so I am gonna post this in paragraph's and then the big question.

    My current environment:
    Mac book pro
    Unity Pro (trial)
    Android development set up and already produced a demo with a skybox, stereoscopic foto.
    Separate project for the Rift as well: This project can play movie textures.

    What I want:
    To have the same project of rift be executed on a mobile device. Say I set up a skybox(sphere), and within the skybox there's the Cardboard main camera. I am aware that unity/android does not support movie textures. Soo......

    Question:
    How do I get google cardboard to play movie textures on a skybox? What should the script generally look like? Is this even possible or should I consider doing this natively?

    Any suggestions or help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for the feedback. Please let me know if you need more details.
     
  2. JDMulti

    JDMulti

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    Use image sequences, this is what I did. But be carefull with it. :)
     
  3. lordfong

    lordfong

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    I thought movie textures are those exact same thing XD. Thanks for the suggestion. (Make a list, 60 images per second, and i got like a 5min video , needs to be in the 1900 res, so about 1MB(number pulled out of my behind ;P) per file maybe??)

    Update: It seems video wasn't playing on unity game preview. It was however playing on the device, in fullscreen :( . So I might be halfway there. I have come across an assets that can do this for $75. Do any of you guys know if it works?

    Here is the link http://u3d.as/content/defiant-development-pty-ltd/mobile-movie-texture/2w1.
     
  4. JDMulti

    JDMulti

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    I have no experience with that plugin. However I know that movie textures on mobile devices will always play in fullscreen mode outside Unity as a layer over the application. When you quit then or stop playing, they switch back to the 3d content. I don't know if this plugin enables playback inside a 3d environment, but I doubt that. At least iOS has some really strict policy on this and it always plays outside Unity in fullscreen.