Whirligig is a VR media player for the playback and viewing of video files and images. It supports a wide range of projection types, render paths and has many other features to make your experience as enjoyable as possible.
Tutorials highlighting some of the features and how to use them here.
Media Foundation (Windows 8 and 10 only)
Media Foundation offers good support for most video formats. It comes as standard on both Windows 8 and 10. If you’re consered about installing additional decoders on your system then this is a good option.
VideoLAN
You can also try libVLC. This is a codec library which has a wide range of built in video decoders and streaming options. This library is used in the popular video player VLC. It offers a larger range of video playback options than Media Foundation and doesn’t require decoders to be installed.
Image Support
jpg,png,jps,pns
Whirligig works with most jpg and png files but works best when the image file resolution has a factor of 2.
Supported Projection Types
- Fisheye 100,110,120,130,140,150,160,170,180,190,200,210,220,230,240,250,260,270,280,300,310,320,330,340,350,360
- Barrel 100,110,120,130,140,150,160,170,180,190,200,210,220,230,240,250,260,270,280,290,300,310,320,330,340,350,360. Barrel also has height degrees and squash options to get the perfect projection.
- Cinema with options to curve height and width.
Custom Enviroments/Rooms
- Home Cinema
- Bedroom
- Living Room
- Luxury home cinema
- Tilted planetarium
- Level planetarium
Custom Formats
- Cube Map Horizontal Tee
- Cube Map Horizontal
- Cube Map Vertical Tee
- Cube Map Vertical
- Facebook Cube Map 3×2
- Facebook Pyramid
- GardenGnome Cube Map 3×2
- Kodak PixPro SP360
- LatLong 360×90
- LG360
- Octane
- Panasonic A500
- Ricoh Theta S
- Samsung Gear 360
- Vray Cubemap Invert
- Vray Cubemap
Advice and guides can be found in the discussion forum.
