I must admit getting a cheap (around $10-$12) VR viewer from Big W felt like a great bargain. I could check out VR/360 videos and see what I thought. Whilst I didn't expect the quality to be perfect, at least I didn't have to spend hundreds of dollars.
For a while this seemed to work well. Then I change to a Samsung Galaxy S7 and nothing seem to work. The images just didn't line up so I ended up with two distance images and not the two images merged into one. Something didn't seem right so today I decided to investigate.
At first I started to look for apps that could play YouTube videos in stereoscopic and after a little hunting realised this feature is actually built into YouTube. One path led to another and eventually I found a site which enabled me to set up my own QR Code for Google Cardboard.
My gut feeling was telling me the two images were too far apart. I wanted to make a QR Code for Google Cardboard (an app you can install) so I could get the two images lined up better. You can find the facility to build you own QR Code for Google Cardboard at https://arvr.google.com/cardboard/viewerprofilegenerator/.
Completing the form based on my measurements produced the same two images that were too far apart. My two lens have inter-lens measure of 65mm. I built a number of profiles and found if I had the inter-lens gap of 40, this would produce what I wanted. There may be an even better size but this was good enough for me.
Now I can watch 360VR movies using YouTube using the Samsung Galaxy S7 using my VR Viewer from Big W. I can also watch normal movies in stereoscopic which makes the movies look like they on the big screen. Pretty cool.
The following is the QR Code to set the inter-lens gap to 40.
Kelvin Eldridge
360 VR videos
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