How To Add 360 Video To Your Oculus Quest Using UE4

[@AlijaŠtiková]

I was trying to solve the mirrored (flipped) texture, so in case anyone is having the same issue, I just copy the comment from the @GDXR: "You would be best to invert the mesh rather than the video. Just add minus to the transform values of the object. For example x-1 y-1 z-1 this will invert your video.or simple invert the video directly." Scale changing helped :) Thank you!

[@StrayVertex]

Great video, exactly what I needed, thx! :) Really looking forward to the VR Game Series!

[@chomnansaedan4788]

This is the only guy who makes videos that are "complete" most others get you about 90% of the way and then your left with specific bugs. I sub

[@GDXR]

Theres no point covering half a topic lol. doesnt help if we do that.

[@adrianoufrb]

This is grat. How about 360 stereo videos?

[@David_Fernandez]

But how to do a stereoscopic view? It's kind of useless if you cannot have the espacial feeling when using it inside a VR headset Thanks!

[@FourMileFox]

Great video, thank you! Any advice on how to set up a VR180 video in Unreal? I can't seem to find anything out there that takes me through the process. Project onto a different type of mesh?

[@artemkupchyshyn8380]

Did you find any solution?

[@FourMileFox]

@Artem Kupchyshyn Unfortunately I haven't. 😕

[@virtualrealityclubland4355]

many thanks great work really want to see more Quest VR UE4 tutorials

[@carlomarza]

Hello, thanx a lot for the video, please a question, to put a video texture to an object instead of a 360 to sky, like a plane or a cube, should I use the same process? thx Carlo

[@GDXR]

Your welcome, yes it's the exact same process to apply it to an object.

[@santiagoluib3]

Great tutorial video! Thank you. My question is, does this work in Unreal Engine 5 ?

[@alanhuico]

2:11 Import Vid in UE (Note to Self)

[@pinkmoon5332]

Is it possible to do a new tutorial that features being able to play back a 360 movie file using a Quest 2? And, also to playback the movie file from the headsets' "Movies" folder, thanks.

[@CommanderColson]

I am using the same 360 video as you, but it will not open in the media player?

[@dansnim1410]

Hello. I have a quick question about sounds. I followed exactly the same step you showed but I couldn't hear any sound. In media player(in UE4 of course) I can hear sound but not when I play it and put on a headset.

[@roystonwilson6846]

Hey Jon - this video is awesome- I had a request - Bought a Quest 2 and wanted to know how to leverage Unreal - Can you please help with some basics where I can create basic content - more like a gallery and folks can walk around in the environment and interact with some objects in the scene. Can you please help here and do a video? will appreciate that brother! - many thanks cheers

[@GDXR]

Hey Royston, really pleased it's been helpful. I can add it to the list. jump in the discord and we can help you get there.

[@studios-r]

Hello GDXR, is it possible to create this method with stereoscopic 360 video??? ... in UE5...

[@0x0michael]

two spheres one for each eyeball, first half of the frames to the right second half of the frames to the left?

[@metehankumyol359]

Please make a tutorial about lightning in vr

[@johnwate4080]

Awesome tutorial - thank you so much for this. Would this also work with a 360 / stereo video? And if so - how? I would love to see one tutorial on that

[@katherine-montoya]

i am lookig for the same...

[@xavieralejandrorubioaguila7707]

Great video, Hi from Costa rica

[@GDXR]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@MEDIARUSS]

This works great in preview but when packaging to the quest 2 and touching the button, it reverts back to the same layer and not the new one. Pressing the button in VR Preview works fine so not sure why when packaging to the Quest 2, it will not go to the new level.

[@yerulanart]

also packaged for the vive, didn't work in the packaged, even tough works in the preview. Any ideas how to solve it?

[@MEDIARUSS]

@@yerulanart Glad to know I am not the only one..tried this several ways but still searching for answers.

[@yerulanart]

@@MEDIARUSS I found a way. You need to make a folder, named Movies, in the Contents folder, as follows Contents/Movies. And all your videos should be in the Movies folders, and all the midea assets should have the path to those videos. Then it will work when packaged. Checked it, tested it. Works.

[@MEDIARUSS]

@@yerulanart Thanks, I will recheck that. I could have sworn that I did that but still, when packaged and played on the headset, the image was still rather pixellated as compared to the preview in the headset before packaging.

[@cobalfrostwyrm]

Does anyone know how to play files from the movies folder? I've got my mediasource setup to point at it, and I'm not seeing any read errors happening

[@alexanderkoretskiy5260]

The video is mirrored cause of flipped polygons. When I tried to use TextureCoordinate node and set to flip U-coord. my video become cropped.

[@GDXR]

You would be best to invert the mesh rather than the video. Just add minus to the transform values of the object. For example x-1 y-1 z-1 this will invert your video.or simple invert the video directly

[@alexanderkoretskiy5260]

@@GDXR thanks

[@MEDIARUSS]

I like your video..thanks. Works great but hat was your 360 video setting? When I do this and put on my Quest 2, the 360 video is rather pixelly and sticks at times. I was using a 4K video. 4096 x 2048

[@GDXR]

I cant I cant remeber if I do it in the video but go to your material which contains the video and set the Material Domain to "User Interface" and if your using Forward shading set "Use Full Precision" to true. Give that a shot any let me knwo how it goes.

[@MEDIARUSS]

Thanks..tried all of those and a little better but still is sticking and pixellated and that is using the same video...hmmm quite a puzzle.

[@MEDIARUSS]

@@GDXR What I have found is that previewing through the Quest 2, the videos look fine. But when packaged to teh Quest 2 and vieing by launching from the HMD, the videos appear slightly choppy and slightly pixellated. Have you had the same challenge?

[@NiteshKumar-cs4wo]

how 360 video in virtual production, i mean to say how to connect 360 video by the help of vive tracker

[@schoolhomevrtechnologyassi6286]

WOW That's an idea huh? Hmm.. OK!! I think you could... You have done like a skysphere ? Maybe an INSIDE OUT Skysphere.. You could create a Sphere in 3ds Max or Blender, reverse its Normals (So you can see it from the INSIDE with a Camera), then give it a Temporary (or the actual) texture map (or a still of it) and try using 'Real World Mapping Coordinates in Max (maybe that will finally be useful...) then when you pull this asa FBX file into Unreal you are already a lot of the way to having something to MOVE AROUND IN... (IOt will be limited..) I know! If you do it in Stereoscopic? Maybe you could connect the STereo Separation to the Pwn DIstance Travelled so it gets closer in space as well as visually,.. (might work even better with multiple sphere layers (shells) and transparency like the dimensional Disney camera, but SPHERICAL and with many Nested Spheres! and the SPHERES could CHANGE SIZE relative to each other MUAH MUAHH!! bACK TO WORK I GO ZOOM!!~!!

[@saraaquino9120]

Great Video. Do you have any advice/demo about the creation of 360Video with some interaction/menu that can be developped inside the 360 video? Thank you!

[@GDXR]

Thank you, i dont have a demo but id suggest looking into 3D widgets which you can use as menues and allow you to place them in your environment and the scene. If youve never worked with Widgets before i suggest watching this video to get an idea of how they work: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6jFg2mqrJ2bhNE

[@evengreven5515]

how do you use this method, but that you also have stereoscopic view? one video for each eye

[@GDXR]

you would need to use a different method for stereoscopic videos. id recommend looking into the stereo layer component.

[@RxPharmacytech]

Would I do this exact same process to add a flat video to my level? And if so instead of adding it to a sphere what would I use? Thanks

[@GDXR]

Same process, you would just need to add a plane.

[@VRGetaway]

Is it possible to add targets you want players to hit while playing a 360 Video?

[@GDXR]

Since the level is 3D you can add anything you want within the sphere. So yeah, you could add targets to hit inside of it.

[@VRGetaway]

I assumed so. So is there a way you can pull up a timeline in seconds so you can easily figure out each target, or do you need to use the delay. Any way you could do a video on that. It needs to work like Audio Trip type targets.

[@romansalomon7917]

Thanks waiting for the VR game series

[@GDXR]

Don't worry. It's in the works, there's a lot to cover and I want to make sure it's good first.

[@dex3k]

Great video, Hi from Czech :)

[@smeezy9426]

I did it step by step and it works, but unfortunately the sound of the video won't play. Is that a version issue? Working with UE 4.26.2. Please help. And thanks for the great tutorial!

[@smeezy9426]

I just resolved it by adding a sound component to the sphere and referencing it to the media player! No help needed anymore

[@viewingthetube45]

Could you go into more detail. I added the wave file via the sequencer and synching the audio is a nightmare

[@smeezy9426]

@@viewingthetube45 sure, just select your sphere. Then in the attribute window click on „add component“ and select sound component. After that you drag the same media player into the Sound component that you used as a texture for the sphere. I had no sync problems there

[@digimikeh]

i dont have MotionControllerPawn.. how do you build it ?

[@GDXR]

it's included with the default VR Template.

[@vegitoblue2187]

Instead of creating a custom sphere or using 2 sided, you can also just recycle the sky sphere mesh

[@พัณณ์ชิตาชุ่มแจ่ม]

Wow Thank you so much 😊 Can walk around in 360 vdo ?

[@dansnim1410]

It what I was looking for!!

[@simonesc5313]

fantastic tutorial, thanks!

[@dansnim1410]

bro. Can you show us how to do packaging that vedio? So I can play out of UE4.

[@GDXR]

Hey dan, you should be able to package this to your headset. What exatly is the issue?

[@dansnim1410]

@@GDXR You guided me really well so I'm already better than a weak ago. But like I said, Can you show us how to package the file? I mean when I play that video on no UE4 installed PCs, I need to change this file to something else right? I can't install it every time when I have to demonstrate my work to others. I know this is really basic staff just I have no idea how to make it work. Help me.

[@wiccah9809]

Hello, I follow the steps but when I check the doble side on the Material cant see the sphere from the inside! what I´m missing, thanx !

[@GDXR]

You either need to set the material to double sided or invert the normals of the mesh.

[@wiccah9809]

ok I got it now, your preview of your camera at the down right on the screen was covering when you set the material to the sphere ! ll good now :)

[@wiccah9809]

​@@GDXR got it working now! you video is just what I need it, but now when I see it throw the oculus I got the feeling the sphere is too small or tight the virtual space... should I make the sphere bigger, or the camera view smaller or more wide angle, is there a way to do this! thanks a lot

[@GDXR]

@@wiccah9809 glad it was useful. I would scale the sphere to a comfortable size. You shouldn't change camera settings when using VR as it will feel uncomfortable and wrong. Possibly cause motion sickness.

[@wiccah9809]

@@GDXR Cool, will give it a try making the sphere bigger.. Also I notice that when I want to import a video on a bigger resolution than 4096x2048 it has a problem loading the file. I have some 5k and 8k videos that I try to use and wasn`t working till I scale down the videos to 4k.. as the same one you used in your video, do you know if there is a 4k limit to import videos on unreal?

[@bhargavsathya158]

Great Video! thank you so much. But after doing all the steps carefully, i am not able to see a 360 video playing in oculus quest. Any solution please???

[@GDXR]

Thank you! your welcome. If the video isn't playing chances are it's not loading quick enough. Id recommends increasing the length of the delay to give the video enough time to load or try reducing the videos file size using some compression. To help it load faster.

[@bhargavsathya158]

@@GDXR Thank you again! but i feel my question was wrong. I can see the video in quest but i am not able to rotate/move and see the entire 360 video.

[@t.mzulfadli7985]

@@bhargavsathya158 u need the oculus thing bro

[@vrtest827]

How can I watch subtitles when watching 360 video?

[@vrtest827]

Like KZbin Vr APP, are there any other ways to play 360 video with subtitles?

[@GDXR]

I haven't personally worked with subtitles in UE4 but I would look at creating a user widget that is attached to the player's camera or placed in the world to which you then send the subtitles to so they can be displayed.

Everything ok but when I build to Quest, video doesn`t show. I just see the white sphere. My video is a h264 mp4 4096x2048, 25 fps. Maybe has this something to do with that? I also can´t see the video transfer in the output log.

[@GDXR]

Have you told unreal to add it to your project in Project settings-> Packaging? If you have excluded movie files when staging set to true then you need to specify which movie to package. Same way as adding levels hit the plus and add the video. If this isn't the case then it might be worth increasing the length of the delay to see if that helps it load in.

[@shadowdataprojection]

@@GDXR my video plays but its pretty juddery some of the time but not always. I have a 32 core threadripper and 2080ti 64gb ram I thought it would be quick enough. I got some mp4's from mettle vimeo I wonder if i should try a different codec? Do i need to package maybe ? level and individual videos? I had try packaging earlier but didn't seem to help. I have 3 second delay. Cheers

[@GDXR]

@@shadowdataprojection If its juddery it might be a loading issue. I'd increase the delay by 1 second and also change the codec to WAV which is what I normals use. I'd also recommend packaging the project since it won't be running the editor at the same time and see if that helps. You will need to make sure unreal knows where the videos are the same way I explained in the reply above.

[@shadowdataprojection]

@@GDXR Thanks for your help i think i have solved it now, i did what you said and it was still doing it part of the other issue was the content. Both of my videos had cars or people going close and past the camera quickly i think this created a clash of fps with hz, cheers

[@Alex-sr6wl]

@@GDXR Hey, I hope you still checking your comments. So I included my video in a "specific movies to package" array (by pasting the path to the video. And I made the delay ridiculously big (like 20 seconds). Unfortunately, I am still seeing the white sphere when building to Oculus Quest 2.

[@artyfly]

Thanks! it that i'm looking for!

[@DeepApnea]

Hi, can it work for oculus go?

[@GDXR]

Don't see why it wouldn't. Just keep the video file reasonable

[@SeongPD]

Thanks!!!!