How to Watch GoPro 3D Video with Gear VR?

Summary: Want to view GoPro 3D video with Gear VR, you'd better convert GoPor 3D video to 3D SBS MP4 initially. Read on the below article to learn more hints.

Born from a passion to capture your love of sport from your perspective, the Gopro cameras like the hot Gopro HD Hero 4, Gopro HD Hero 3, Gopro HD Hero 2 are all the feat of engineering. Gopro records in MP4 files, using H.264 video (AVC) and AAC audio and has many different resolutions, which gives you the ability to capture and share life's most passionate experiences. Supposing you have recorded some stunning videos from GoPro, ever thought of transferring them into Gear VR with 3D visual experience?

As all we know, Gear VR, a virtual reality headset developed by Samsung company, offers a Cinema app to enable you to enjoy your movies save in your mobile phone in an immersive environment with the lights off. In general, for watching supported video files on Gear VR, what you need to do is to import them into the "My Videos" folder on your SD card. But for adding those incompatible 3D medias like GoPro 3D videos onto Gear VR for playback, you have to convert your GoPro 3D videos to Gear VR playable 3D SBS files first.



Actually, the process is not hard as you imagined and can be well done with the help of Brorsoft 3D Video Converter, which is regarded as a wonder 3D video transformer. With it, you can convert 3D GoPro MP4 video to Gear VR compatible SBS 3D MP4/MKV effortlessly. In addition to GoPro video files, this program also allows you to convert all 2D/3D videos in AVI, MKV, WMV, MPG, VOB, TiVo, MOV, etc to a decent format as you want. What's more, with the built-in editor, you can trim, crop, adjust special effect to your YouTube video, so that you get the very part and effects at your will. If you are a Mac user, you can turn to Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac (El Capitan, Yosemite included), which has the same function as the Windows version.

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How to Watch GoPro Hero 3D Video with Gear VR?

Step 1: Add GoPro 3D video files

Download, install and run the corresponding program. Click Add button to load your GoPro 3D video files. Batch conversion is supported so that you can add multiple files for conversion at a time.



Step 2: Select output format

Click "Format" and select "MP4 Side-by-Side 3D Video (*.mp4)" from "3D Video" category as the output format. It works on Samsung Gear VR perfectly.



Tip: Click Settings to adjust the parameters like video codec, video bitrate, video frame rate, audio sample rate, audio channel. 1920x1080 compressed side-by-side 3D should be resampled to 1920x540 resolution full side-by-side resolution. And keep audio in AAC or MP3.

Step 3: Start conversion

Click the "Convert" button to start and finish the 3D GoPro video to Gear VR conversion.

After the conversion, click "Open" button to quickly locate the generated media file. Now you can transfer the converted GoPro videos to play with Gear VR easily.

Step 4: Transfer converted 3D GoPro videos to Samsung Gear VR for playback

1. On your MicroSD card file directory, navigate to Oculus> Movies> Your Movies

2. Create a new folder within “Your Movies” and label it “3D”

3. Import or move your side-by-side 3D videos into your newly created “3D” folder

Once you have created your 3D content folder and imported compatible video files, insert your MicroSD card into your smartphone(if it isn’t already), dock the phone in your Gear VR, and don the virtual reality headset. Then:

1. Navigate to Oculus Cinema from the main menu

2. Navigate to “My Videos” from the Oculus Cinema content library menu

3. Select the 3D video you wish to view (if you followed the above steps it should have a “3D” label in the upper right hand corner)

4. Choose the cinema mode to begin playback 3D GoPro movies on Samsung Gear VR

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