The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset developed and manufactured by Oculus VR, released on 28 March 2016, making it the first to kickstart consumer-targeted virtual reality headsets. The Rift has an OLED display, 1080×1200 resolution per eye, a 90 Hz refresh rate, and 110° field of view. If you own such an excellent VR headset, ever thought of watching your funny 3D YouTube movies on Oculus Rift DK2, enjoying a better visual experience?
Have no clue of it? No worry! This below article presents you how to make it.
In general, you can directly get YouTube 3D videos on Oculus Rift DK2 with YouTube application. While, if you want to transfer some 3D YouTube movies downloaded on computer to Oculus Rift DK2, so that you can play 3D YouTube videos on Oculus Rift DK2 without YouTube opened. Then you may need to convert your YouTube videos into playable 3D SBS files initially, since most 3D YouTube video files are in .flv, which is not a compatible format for Oculus Rift DK2.
Granted there are a plenty of tools available for converting YouTube videos, take both converting speed and quality into consideration, Brorsoft 3D Video Converter is definitely a great option for you! With it, you can convert 3D YouTube FLV to Oculus Rift DK2 compatible SBS 3D MP4 effortlessly. In addition to YouTube 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. Below let'us show you how to enable 3D YouTube videos playback on Oculus Rift DK2.
Step 1: Download Videos from YouTube
Launch your IE, Firefox, or other internet browser. Enter www.Youtube.com in URL search box. View the YouTube website to select videos you love. Afterwards, copy the page’s URL showed in search box, and then choose an online YouTube downloader and paste. There’re plenty of such free tools on the Internet. They will capture the video in the certain page and download it for you.
Step 2: Load your YouTube movies
Launch the video converter for Oculus Rift DK2 , and click Add button to import your source materials from YouTube. Batch conversion is supported so that you can add multiple files for conversion at a time.
Step 3. 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 Oculus Rift DK2 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 4. Start conversion
Click the "Convert" button to start and finish the 3D YouTube FLV video to Oculus Rift DK2 conversion.
After the conversion, click "Open" button to quickly locate the generated media file. Now you can transfer the converted YouTube videos to play with Oculus Rift DK2 easily.
To have a wonderful 3D experience on Oculus Rift DK2, this conversion is just the first procedure. You need extra things - VR Player and media player. This following is to teach the green hands for Oculus Rift DK2 how to set up. We will take VLC Player as an example.
1. Download and install VLC Player
2. Download and install VR Player
3. You then need to download the DK2 Tracker for motion tracking with the player
4. Expand the .zip and copy to the following location(or wherever you installed VR Player):
C:\Program Files(x86)\VR Player\Trackers
5. Open up VR player and set the tracker that you just copy as below:
Depending on the content you wish to view you have a few options. Here are some examples:
1. Set up Oculus as extended Desktop to the Rift Display Mode program.
2. Ensure your Windows monitor is setup so your rift is secondary.
3. For 3D movies such as Big Hero 6:
Menu - Media - Format - Side By Side
Menu - Media - Projection - Plane
4. If your movie is not 3D
Menu - Media - Format - Mono
Menu - Media - Projection - Plane
5. To open a movie select:
Menu - File - Open File - With VLC
6. Browse to your selected movie.
7. Now that the movie is running you need to move the video screen onto your Oculus screen.
In my case the Oculus is my second monitor to the left. So I hit these keys:
Hit Windows Key + Cursor Key Left (Do this twice, this moves the windows to your Oculus)
Hit Windows Key + Cursor Key Up(This maximizes the window)
Now, put on your headsets and enjoy the 3D YouTube movies on Oculus Rift DK 2!
Related Guides:
How to Watch 3D YouTube movies on Samsung Gear VR
Guide to Play 3D YIFY movies on Zeiss VR One with iOS/Android handsets
Watch 3D YouTube Videos on Galaxy S7/S7 Edge with Zeiss VR
Viewing you tube videos with the vr headset for iphone 5c is always a healthy experience and you can adjust the video according to you.
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