UniVRMedia

Stream 360 videos in Unity using its VideoPlayer component entirely through code and not editor setup.

Purpose

Unity introduced the much anticipated video player component in version 5.6
This official Unity blog illustrates how to use the new video player to play 360 videos, however that is a skybox + RenderTexture approach, which may be expensive on mobiles, (I don't know).

Another way is to have a camera in the centre of a sphere that has normals pointed inside and the Video Player component, but this requires manual setup.

UniVRMedia automates the manual workflow. It essentially follows these steps:

• Creates a primitive sphere at a position and inverts its normals
• Places a camera at the centre of the sphere
• Uses the Unlit Texture shader on the sphere surface and changes the color to your choice
• Gives you full control over playback by allowing access to the Video Player component in use
• Automatically disables all cameras when the 360 video starts and resets them back when the video is done
• Set the time scale to 0 and then back to its original value when the video is done

How to use

• Check out UniVRMedia/Demo/DemoScene for an example
• Use the UniVRMedia.Options class to set initialization values for the 360 video player. The class is also serializable in the editor.
• Use UniVRMedia.Video to access the video player component in use

Notes

• Currently only supports 360 panoramic videos
• Sample video used : Visit the Philippines

Contact

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