VR3DMediaViewer - View Stereoscopic 3D content in VR

ATM I'm working on a update to the asset, mainly to address the common camera setup issue. I see that I considered the Image/RawImage UI component support before as it was already on my list for something to look into and think about.

After I finish the camera setup procedure update, I'll look into that next.

I'll look into addressing the null reference error too.

 

@rinkusaru

You will probably be happy to know that I have indeed worked on support for the RawImage component. It required a bit of a script overhaul since my code was designed around Renderer components a bit more then I thought. There was a couple hicups due to oddities with the Canvas UI stuff, but it "should" work fine in the end.

The Image component however will not be supported. It's just not suitable for this stuff. But the RawImage component should be good enough itself for such cases when you need to work with UI elements.

While I have no firm date planned for the next update, it will hopefully be soon. After I clean up this code I need to go through my bug list and emails and start knocking off other more minor issues that have built up over the past year. I just figured I'd give you a heads up as early as I can so you can prepare if you want. =)

EDIT:

The update is now live! Re-download, re-import and enjoy! =)

 

Alright Thanks buddy.

 

So I'm having one issue as I'm using the canvas on world space and i need to give the camera reference and as I've two camera there in the scene for 3D video. if i give the left camera ref and then the stereo video like left right work on one eye but remain same on the other eye and vice versa.
What should I do?

 

any update on this?

 

Hi I've purchase your package and integrated it inside the project I'm seeing the 3D effect but there is blurred video I see just like the 3D movie in theater when i don't wear my glasses.
Here is the example : https://goo.gl/images/uRj7y4
is there something that can be done for this to fix?

 

I'm very sorry for this late reply. For some reason I was never sent an alert for you're last two messages, and only happened to notice them now.

I'm having a hard time understanding what you are asking. I suspect you are trying to use this with something else, hence mentioning needing to reference the camera. And somehow that's messing up the 3D for both eyes. I don't know. I would need a better, more detailed explanation to understand and hope to help.

I can't really say what that is. If you weren't getting the 3D effect, then I may think it was a layer issue. My best guess is its just a issue of the specific video you are using. Maybe its encoding is bad. Perhaps, at best, maybe the shader you are using for the canvas. Or even a post processing effect from your scene.

 

Actually the 3D effect is coming but the part where3D effect is not coming that part is coming blur and its coming with all video I've check.

 

I'm having a hard time following you. I don't know what you mean by both having a 3D effect, and not having one in different parts.

Lets see if I can figure some things out before you respond next, to help this go a little quicker.

Since you linked a Red/Cyan Anaglyph image before, is that the type of 3D videos you are working with?

Assuming so... maybe your descriptions of the issue might make some sense. It's possible that due to a color mismatch, that you could get some semblance of a 3D effect with Anaglyph media, while also getting some bleed through that could maybe be described as blurring with a non-3D effect. I've personally seen this with a cheap pair of Red/Not Quite Cyan glasses that I've got, but not with my Asset here.

If this is the case, I'd suggest adjusting the color in the .Stereoscopic3DImage settings for the video.

It could maybe be a shader bug. My Assets Anaglyph support is done through a Shader+RenderTexture. While it worked with my own test images/videos, it's not impossible that it has a bug. I'm novice shader coder at best. It could also be a issue with the shader and a different version of Unity than I tested with. That's hard to predict such issues. In this case, I'd be especially interested in getting this figured out and fixed too!

Beyond these shot in the dark guesses, I don't know without know more/clearer details.

 

Okay Let's just forget everything above you're mixing up the two different issue.

Now my main issue that i need to fix is when in my headset i try to watch the video I can see the 3d effect but while I can see that 3D effect the video quality I'm having is blurr just like the image I've posted above.

 

I'm sorry. That doesn't clarify anything to help me understand the issue to be able to hope to provide an explanation/solution.

Again, I have to assume you are using Anaglyph 3D videos, without you stating one way or the other. I posted my best theory and solution to that case above. Image Ghosting from a color mismatch could be seen as a blurring to some.

If I was to further guess at issues beyond that, encoding, shader, and post processing. Maybe it's a black smear issue with the HMD you are using. I've thought that issue was mostly weeded out in modern generations of VR HMDs, but I can't say for sure for everything. Generally you had to combat black smear with making your scenes brighter.

Hmm...

If you were to play the video without my asset converting it to 3D, does the burring still seem to happen? If not, then it could be my behind-the-scenes conversion shader. Why that may not be working correctly for you, I'd have to figure out. Last I checked, it of course worked fine enough for me with my Analglyph test videos. It could maybe be some change made since Unity v5.6 (what I dev with to keep this as compatible as possible) and I'd have to update something. It could maybe be quirk with your target platform. I test on PC, with my included custom Cross-eyed Camera Rig and Vive mostly. Sometimes my Oculus Rift CV1.

 

Is there any easy way to loop the video clips instead of them playing just once?

 

If you are using a RenderTexture, it has to be done via scripting. In the "VR3DMediaViewer\Demo\Scripts" folder there is a script called "PlayMovieTextureOnStart.cs" which you can use as an example.

If you are using the VideoPlayer component, there's a Loop option on the component that you can Check.

 

I am using the VR3d Media Viewer script, not setting up anything else manually:

https://i.imgur.com/AcNWjUD.png

Ignore the warning, I am not displaying 3d content yet.

 

On the same GameObject that VR3DMediaViewer script is on, add a VideoPlayer component, and check Loop on it.

 

Hi, I just used your asset, and it works really well for what I need. 180 Stereoscopic videos (Insta 360 Evo) in a Vive Pro headset. I have two simple questions:

The texture is moving with the camera - I assume because it is stereoscopic. Can I watch the video but also walk around it (like in a gallery)?

Does having 180 video wrapped on a curved surface add or detract? Any pointers?

Thanks

 

None of the example scenes I provide are for 180 media (not that my asset cant be used with it). I'll assume you are using the 360 demo, as you suggest it looks fine, and some 180 videos are formatted as 360 with the other 180 degrees blacked out.

If the canvas is moving with a camera as you move, it sounds like the canvas is parented under the camera/character controller. Dragging it out of the cameras/character controllers hierarchy should stop it from moving.

180 media should be on a curved surface. The center needs to be in front of the viewer, and the sides need to be beside. So I'd say that it "adds". A flat surface would subtract.

Since you reminded me... as I said, my examples do not have anything for 180 degree media. So I whipped up a couple meshes just now for such media.

Since 180 degree media can vary I made 2. The "Cropped" one is for such media thats basically 360, but half of the image is not used for the real content. That other half may have embedded black space and/or logo or something. The Stretched one is for normal true 180 degree media.

180 Panorama Canvas-HighPoly 64x64 Cropped.fbx
180 Panorama Canvas-HighPoly 64x64 Stretched.fbx

From your questions, I'm not really sure if you were using the 360 canvas or a normal flat 2D canvas. But for pointers, or advice I recommend you use one of these instead. Scale it and try to position it largely as makes sense for the media/scene. In general however it should probably be positioned and sized so that the bottom is touching the ground, and the center is at eye level. So for a ballpark... Scale XYZ=+3.2, Position=Y +1.6. You can adjust from there as you need.

 

Thanks for that. I had attached your script and the video texture to a plane (rotated 90 degrees). I aligned it so that the videos' horizon matched the horizon in Unity. And the stereoscopic works really well. I'm just after attaching it to a slightly curved screen now.

The plane wasn't a child to the camera and the plane didn't change rotation or move horizontally or vertically with my movements - only when I try walking to it or walking away.

 

Then the "Stretched" .fbx I posted above is exactly what you are looking for. Import that into your project, drag it into your scene and use it as the canvas instead of the plane. If you think it looks good without it, wait until you see it with the proper curved canvas! =)

Then I'm at a loss as to why it would move. There should be nothing in the script that changes its transform at all...

Did you somehow accidentally add another script to it? From my asset package... maybe "ObjectMotionsOverTime.cs"? But it could be anything that isn't from my package.

 

Wow that does look better. I rotated the dome so I was looking straight into it and made the horizons match - and it really felt like I was looking through some kind of portal. A lot better than having it be a skydome and completely wrapped around and suffocating.

It stopped following after re-opening Unity - so it must have been a weird unity glitch.

 

@DarkAkuma, I purchased your asset yesterday, but I am not getting the results I was expecting. Before troubleshooting, let's confirm what is expected.

You talk about portals and looking into another world, as though you could step into it. That's what I am looking for, a way to look into a picture, as though I am looking through a window. The effect I am seeing is not like that, it's like "3D" postcard, that as you change your viewing perspective it changes orientation. For instance, Big Bunny video, when I get closer to the glass, I can't see what is further to left and right in the world.

Am I doing something wrong, or is the effect I am describing as you would expect?

I am running Unity 2019.1.4f1.

 

The effect you are describing is correct. This asset is for viewing typical Stereoscopic 3D media, and that's just how Stereoscopic 3D media is. It's static and doesn't change with a change of perspective. While the "portals" line is mainly just marketing, it's still technically correct when it's not take as literally.

I have actually dealt with the desired effect I think you were expecting, in a old game jam demo. It's certainly possible to get a more flawless window effect were the viewed contents change with your perspective. But that's a costly thing on performance as it's not using a pre-rendered image/video, but basically rendering the contents of 2 scenes at once.

If you want something in the middle, less jarring than a static image that doesn't change with perspective, but not going as far as rendering a second scene, something can probably be achieved...

My first idea would be to mix a 360/180 pano image with a square frame. While the image itself is still static, you would be able to see more of it as you change perspective. There's a couple ways to achieve this. The easier but less perfect one being just putting a 180 hemisphere (I linked such canvas objects above) directly behind a square hole.

A lesser option would be to slide around a standard square 3D image behind a frame based on camera position. It wouldn't be perfect, but might be less jarring if dialed in right.

I'm not opposed to working on/adding an example of the first idea to my asset. Off hand I'm not sure how I'd want to design such an example, but I guess I can try working on it asap or slap together something for you if that sounds like something you would want.

 

That did it! Thanks for your fast response and suggestions and willingness to dive in.
It is now like looking into another room. Bravo!

I used the stretch 180 mesh you referenced. Now, we need to clean up the edge of the 180 if we want people look in that far.

 

Awesome! That's great to hear!

I think the idea can be improved upon over my basic suggestion. A limitation of that method is that the hemisphere has to be behind a wall. It cant be in the middle of a room like with my example scene(s). Or else a player could simply walk/look behind and see parts of an odd dome. For a included example I'd probably use a stencil shader to hide the hemisphere from view unless looking through the frame.

I believe there's a possibility that's much easier users in the end, using a custom shader on the square canvas that can take a 360/180 pano image. I think I've seen such a thing. But I'll need to write that shader, and I'm not that great at shader code. But I wanted to write it anyway, so more reason to get around to it! =)

 

Right, the first thing I had to do was get rid of the screen and create a frame (not a solid plane) to give it the rectangular look I wanted.

I am happy to test out any updates you make to the process. Thanks.

 

I finished work on the new panoramic shader canvas option. It should be ready in the next release.

The old Mesh Sphere/Hemi-Sphere method will still be available, this will only be an option as there are pro/cons between the 2 methods.

The shader option will support Y axis rotation of the texture, and tiling/black space of 180 images based on the textures WrapMode.

EDIT:

v2.3 is published now. It contains the new shader method option for panoramic media, and several other new changes/refinements!

 

I'm having some problems with using VRTK 4 and your asset. I select the HeadAnchor (with the camera) then click the Make 3D Camera (with preserve.. ticked). It then copies the camera with its settings and assigning left and right (as normal). But then the new camera gets the button and wants it to be converted (copied), and the original camera has nothing to show from it.
When playing, the video only shows in one eye (obviously) and is upside down. I have had no problem using standard OpenVR without VRTK. Are you able to have a look?

 

I haven't used VRTK in a couple years. I just tried to download and install it, but I didn't have much luck since I don't have a 2018+ build of Unity atm. So I'll have to try to help you solve this more manually atm.

As best I can tell, I think the one eye part of the issue might be because one of the cameras isnt getting its culling mask layer set during the setup because the default "HeadAnchor" camera does not have the left/right image layers checked by default. That would be a bug in my code. For now just ensure that "HeadAnchor-Left" has LeftImage checked under culling mask, and "HeadAnchor-Right" has RightImage checked. And neither has the other layer checked. The "Make 3D Camera" button shows because those layers arent selected.

I'm not sure about the upside down thing though. Is Vertical Flip checked in the loaded Stereoscopic3DImage? That option was newly added to the UI in v2.3, and you may have accidentally ticked it being unaware of it. Sometimes textures get generated oddly and may require that option to get flipped right side up, which is why I added it. So perhaps you are even using something now that may require using the option if you are not.

 

Thanks! That fixed it - the new camera didn't add itself to the cull. And all I had to do with the other problem was to rotate the gameobject .

I'm using VRTK with recent 2019.1.6f1 and it works fine - just need to follow the github instructions carefully.

Does using dual cameras use up much more resources than the new default way? Is this something I should be concerned about?

 

I don't believe so, but I'm not exactly sure. The single pass stuff was added to Unity after I created this asset. I doubt its done in a single pass when cameras are split. But you are only rendering 1 eye each pass. So its a trade off.

I used to include my own sort of single pass method. It got broke with the update that changed the camera, so I removed it. At the time, updating things to work with the new camera didn't work, but maybe now might be different. I'll have to look into it.

EDIT:

I've looked into things a little more to try and give a better answer.

First, I'll admit that I'm unclear on if 2 different cameras each rendering a different eye to the viewport is done in a single pass. I've assumed it was 2 passes, but now I'm unsure.

If it is 2 passes, then this split camera setup is slower, naturally. But in what situations its slower and how significantly is project/scene dependent. You can find more detailed information here. But a gist is that in multi pass rendering, the amount of other objects in a scene will play a part as each will have to be rendered twice. This should only be significant if you were making a gallery type of scene, likely with non-panoramic media. For most panoramic media scenes, and some non-panoramic scenes, your scenes object count would probably be quite low.

Again, this is only if a split camera eye setup exclude it from single pass rendering, which may not be the case.

Still, I do have the task of implementing support for a more modern shader based rendering method on my agenda to consider for the future. Such a method would bypass these concerns and guarantee that single pass rendering was used.

I hope this help answer any concerns for now.

 

Thanks for that, I am creating a real life scene, that the 180 videos are placed into (on video kiosks). I assume a more efficient way would be instead to jump to a new scene with just the video playing.

I notice that in your notes you need to destroy and reopen the videopPlayer to prevent the black material. If I was to have a trigger which enabled and disabled the GameObject, I should also have it to enable and disable the VideoPlayer? Is there a better method?

Thanks again.

 

Trying to look into what you are referring to, I only see notes regarding destroying a videoPlayer component once. That is done to work around a audio bug, so it has nothing to do with a "black material".

I may be looking at the wrong notes though. I don't recall every note I write down because that's why I write them down. Well, in part because my memory sucks and its helpful to get clued in on my mindset from when I worked on part of some code, and also for users who need to make edits. If those aren't the notes you are referring to (Line 625 of VR3DMediaViewer.cs), then can you please point me to what you are?

Regardless, you should probably instead leave the VideoPlayer component enabled when the parent object is disabled and instead just pause/stop/play the video at the same time. Though I'm not sure if that's necessary. it's probably just a good idea to retain control and know exactly what you want/expect to happen to the video when hidden/shown is happening.

 

Yes, you were talking about audio (Line 625). Sorry for the confusion. When I attempt to stop and the play the video again it only shows up blank. However if its paused it works. I suspect it's my code and nothing to do with you.

In VR3DMediaViewer I change line 650 to videoPlayer.playOnAwake = false;

Then I use this code attached alongside the VR3D media viewer script (a collider trigger and a non-gravity rigidbody).:

Code (CSharp):

1.     void OnTriggerEnter(Collider player)
2.  
3.     {
4.         var videoPlayer = GetComponent<UnityEngine.Video.VideoPlayer>();
5.  
6.         if (player.gameObject.tag == "MainCamera")
7.         {
8.             videoPlayer.enabled = true;
9.             videoPlayer.Prepare();
10.             videoPlayer.Play();
11.         }
12.     }
13.     void OnTriggerExit(Collider player)
14.     {
15.         var videoPlayer = GetComponent<UnityEngine.Video.VideoPlayer>();
16.  
17.         if (player.gameObject.tag == "MainCamera")
18.         {
19.             videoPlayer.Stop();
20.             videoPlayer.enabled = false;
21.  
22.         }
23.     }
24.  

 

Looking into your issue myself, I think theres a quirk of the VideoPlayer component. I think it generates a new texture when Play() is called from a full Stop(), regardless if one existed already. New texture means my code would have to know to generate and load a new S3DImage object.

So hopefully Pause()/Play() would suit your needs enough. Else you would have to just manually generate and load a new S3DImage object yourself each time.

 

It works, I just hope that these videos aren't going to use resources when they are paused. My assumption is that a stopped video would clear some needed ram.

 

Hi!
How can it be used on android and other players like EasyMovie Texture or AVPro?
Thanks!

 

There are a couple paths to get the desired result. But the gist for using non-standard textures that are generated at runtime is, you have to have use code.

The simplest, most direct option is to set a empty Stereoscopic3DImage object in the canvas, get a reference to the canvas in your script, get a reference to the texture after it's generated at runtime and call SetNewImage(texture); on the canvas.

Code (CSharp):

1. VR3DMediaViewer _canvas = this.GetComponent<VR3DMediaViewer>();
2.  
3. _canvas.SetNewImage(myTexture);

You could also generate a new Stereoscopic3DImage object at runtime, set the texture to it and use the Stereoscopic3DImage overload to set that to the canvas.

At least that's how people do it with AVPro. I'd assume EasyMoveTexture is similar.

 

Hi DarkAkuma.
I'm having a problem. I have kiosks around the place that show the stereo 180 videos. They intentionally don't play on awake. When you go up to them and press the buttons (VREasy), the videos should play, pause and stop.



This worked in an earlier incarnation of this project despite these errors:

Can't remove AudioSource because MoviePlayer (Script) depends on it
UnityEngine.ObjectestroyImmediate(Object)
​

It is now not. I guess this time around the files are getting removed. I should be sending a command like you wrote in the reply just above. So when I press the button it should load the texture into the material. Could you please tell me how I would incorporate that into this:

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. #if UNITY_5_6_OR_NEWER
4. using UnityEngine.Video;
5. #endif
6.  
7. namespace VREasy
8. {
9. #if UNITY_5_6_OR_NEWER
10.     [RequireComponent(typeof(VideoPlayer))]
11.     [RequireComponent(typeof(AudioSource))]
12.     public class MoviePlayer : MonoBehaviour
13.     {
14.         private VideoPlayer videoPlayer;
15.  
16.         private void Awake()
17.         {
18.             videoPlayer = GetComponent<VideoPlayer>();
19.             videoPlayer.SetTargetAudioSource(0, GetComponent<AudioSource>());
20.         }
21.  
22.         public void PlayMovie()
23.         {
24.             videoPlayer.Play();
25.         }
26.  
27.         public void PauseMovie()
28.         {
29.             videoPlayer.Pause();
30.         }
31.  
32.         public void StopMovie()
33.         {
34.             StartCoroutine(stop());
35.         }
36.  
37.         IEnumerator stop()
38.         {
39.             videoPlayer.time = 0;
40.             yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.05f);
41.             videoPlayer.Pause();
42.             videoPlayer.frame = 0;
43.         }
44.     }
45.  
46. #else
47.     public class MoviePlayer : MonoBehaviour
48.     {
49.         // Backwards compatibility for Unity 5.4 and 5.5 (MovieTexture for standalone)
50. #if UNITY_STANDALONE
51.         private MovieTexture movie;
52. #endif
53. #pragma warning disable 0109
54.         private new AudioSource audio;
55. #pragma warning restore 0109
56.         void Start()
57.         {
58. #if UNITY_STANDALONE
59.             Renderer r = GetComponent<Renderer>();
60.             movie = (MovieTexture)r.material.mainTexture;
61. #endif
62.             audio = GetComponent<AudioSource>();
63.         }
64.  
65.         public void PlayMovie()
66.         {
67. #if UNITY_EDITOR
68.             Debug.Log("Play movie");
69. #endif
70. #if UNITY_STANDALONE
71.             if (movie) movie.Play();
72. #endif
73.             if (audio) audio.Play();
74.         }
75.         public void PauseMovie()
76.         {
77. #if UNITY_EDITOR
78.             Debug.Log("Pause movie");
79. #endif
80. #if UNITY_STANDALONE
81.             if (movie) movie.Pause();
82. #endif
83.             if (audio) audio.Pause();
84.         }
85.  
86.         public void StopMovie()
87.         {
88. #if UNITY_EDITOR
89.             Debug.Log("Stop movie");
90. #endif
91. #if UNITY_STANDALONE
92.             if (movie) movie.Stop();
93. #endif
94.             if (audio) audio.Stop();
95.         }
96.  
97.     }
98. #endif
99. }

Any help would be great, I'm so close to finishing this project - I can taste it.

Cheers

 

I got it working through creating a new video player by scratch and disabling the requireComponents at line 10 and 11. I'm not 100% that solved it. But at least it's working now. Its a shame that you need to remove the videoplayer.

 

I'm not really sure why you would need to remake the Stereoscopic3DImage with the given code, since even your Stop() method uses Pause() because of the quirk I mentioned before. Removing the VideoPlayer component does seem excessive and wrong, yeah. Maybe I'm to tired right now, but I don't really understand the issue. But if its working, great!

 

Hi DarkAkuma,
Your asset is excellent and looks beautiful on an Oculus Rift S. This is probably a dumb question, but I'm a little confused by how to use Video Player to pause an SBS video I'm playing with VR3D Media Viewer. I put the video texture into both the "Default Image" of the VR3D Media Viewer and also into the "Video Clip" of the Video Player. When I try to do a Pause() of the video player in a script, it doesn't work. Could you show a simple example of pausing a VR3D stereo video? Thanks so much!

 

I think your issue is that you are putting the video in the VideoClip field of the VideoPlayer component. Don't do that. VR3DMediaViewer handles that itself. When testing just now, if I did that, pausing did not work.

I quickly wrote up this test script, and it works when trying to pause. This test is just an editor time script when you check/uncheck the bool to pause/unpause the video. Place it on the same object as the VR3D Media Viewer script and VideoPlayer component.

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine.Video;
2. using UnityEngine;
3.  
4. [RequireComponent(typeof(VideoPlayer))]
5. public class VideoPlayerPauseExample : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     private VideoPlayer videoPlayer;
8.  
9.     private bool isPaused = false;
10.     public bool pause = false;
11.  
12.     // Use this for initialization
13.     void Start ()
14.     {
15.         videoPlayer = GetComponent<VideoPlayer>();
16.     }
17.    
18.     // Update is called once per frame
19.     void Update ()
20.     {
21.         if (!isPaused && pause)
22.         {
23.             videoPlayer.Pause();
24.             Debug.Log("Video playback Paused!");
25.             isPaused = true;
26.         }
27.         else if (isPaused && !pause)
28.         {
29.             videoPlayer.Play();
30.             Debug.Log("Video playback Unpaused!");
31.             isPaused = false;
32.         }
33.     }
34. }

But yea. With this, if you set set something int he video clip yourself, the pausing no longer works.

 

Thanks! I should have been able to figure that out. It works great once I made that fix. Just left a 5 star review. Much gratitude.

 

My favorite asset! I'll be using it for 3D photos and videos.

Stereoscopic parallel 3D image.

 

Responding to my own post because I've gotten around to following up on looking into SinglePass rendering support. Initially, I thought pursuing the modern single pass method would not work out well with my assets current design, being as modern SinglePass stereoscopic rendering requires the use of custom shaders. But its working better than I thought.

It's still sad that users will not be able to use any shader of their choice with this method, but I guess thats a fair tradeoff. And really, Unlit and Standard versions of my custom shaders will cover most people needs anyway, most likely.

Anyway, yea. I got it working, and setup. On the canvas script will be an option to select between the current Layered method, and the Shader method. Both will work in Multi-Pass Stereo Rendering Mode, but only Shader will work in Single-Pass. To lessen confusion, the option to select between Layered/Shader will not be visible in Single-Pass mode.

There's still a bit more work to be done before I can submit an updated package. I just thought I'd post hear to give anyone who's interested a heads up.

 

Hi DarkAkuma,
Sorry to bother you with another question. I still really love working with your asset. I'm having a problem getting audio to work when I change videos. (I am using SBS videos set up with VR3DMediaViewer.) When I do the following:
myCanvas = otherGameObject.GetComponent<VR3DMediaViewer>();
myCanvas.SetNewImage(myNewImage);
when I play the video, I don't have any sound. I imagine, like with the Pause and Play issue you helped me fix, this has something to do with the VideoPlayer component taking over. I've tried all sorts of SetAudio things and haven't figured out the right way. Any suggestion as to how I can fix this? Thanks!

 

Offhand, I don't have a solution for you. I would suspect its related to the issue I saw before that caused me to leave this comment in the code:

I'm guessing my workaround was not good enough. The work around was to add a new VideoPlayer component, copy the settings from the old one and delete it. This worked, but apparently isnt working for you.

You could try deleting the entire "else" branch in the code where that comment is, to always use the existing VideoPlayer component and see if that helps. That's about all I can suggest right now. I don't think its an issue with my asset, but instead an issue with the VideoPlayer component itself. I cant fix it. I can only try (and apparently fail) to work around it.

 

A general "heads up".

After a bit of review, I've deemed the newer XR Plugin Management system added in 2018.2, to be not officially supported at this time. The legacy XR Settings options should still work though, and despite warnings of being obsolete, should still remain supported in Unity versions up to 2019.3. In versions 2020+ it will be dropped, and as such I will not be officially supporting 2020 at the start.

Of course, my plan is to continue supporting the latest version and whatever modernizations of general VR support. I just may not be able to right away. I cant own all VR devices for testing, and the one I do own/use is not supported by the plugin system yet... for some reason. I'm forced to wait for its support at least. But I may be in for a headache of having to write a significant amount of code for each specific VR devices plugin... That's an amount of work I'm not ready for right now.

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That said, if you are coming here for help with an issue with 2018.2+, first ask yourself "Am I using the XR Plugin Management system?". A common description of issues scene with it and my asset are "3D images/videos not displaying in 3D.", or in other word, monoscopic. This has been observed with at least OculusVR+Quest.

 

Hi, I bought VR3DMediaViewer, and tested it and had some problems that I could easily solve, your project does not support half side by side? the images are very stretched, something is wrong and so it stretches them, any solution? Almost all the content I have is Half side by side and for me it is a problem that can not be viewed properly, thanks.

 

Hello again. I am porting my project onto the Oculus Quest now. When I play mode using Oculus Link, I am getting correct results. When I build it to run on the Quest it is monoscopic.

I am playing URL side-by-side vr180 mp4. I am using Single Pass. And I think I enabled legacy XR settings:







Have I missed anything?

Thanks!
Alan