Introduction to 360VR Video

Introduction

By Eric Portis and Dan Zeitman

360° VR Video is becoming a popular format for creating immersive video experiences. 360° VR camera lenses capture video with wide-angle lenses and then software converts the fisheye video to equalrectangular video that looks like this:

While this is interesting, it's not a fully-interactive 360° video until you play it back in a video player with 360° playback capabilities.

Fortunately, Cloudinary's video player can easily be extended with the addition of a 360° panorama plugin.

By the end of this tutorial, you will have built a fully-interactive 360° video experience on the web.

Like this:

Video: Copyright © Discovery VR Atlas

Note: If video fails to appear, toggle video to full screen and back.

Cool? Right? Let’s get started.