Spherical rendering 360 degrees

[jackmorgan1]

Hi there, new to the forum, I have used sketchup for years with mostly VRay and Shaderlight renders. I'm thinking of new ways of presenting my design and i wondered if it would be possible to create something where viewers could look around using their phones, a bit like these 360 degree videos on facebook:

 

https://www.facebook.com/Facebook360/

 

A video would be brilliant,, but even a still picture you could look around in every direction woud be amazing and i was wondering if this was possible? Perhaps using the oculus rift and samsung s6/s7? Does anyone have any ideas how this could become a reality, from a fixed or moving position within a sketchup model? Thanks

[philippelamoureux]

Directly form sketchup I doubt it. Vray, corona, unreal can do it tho! It can be seen with a simple cardboard. Do you want it in stereoscopic too? Corona and Vray can do it too!

 

Maybe vray for sketchup allow it?

 

A spherical render is huge in resolution, so making a video is going to take a while to render.

[jackmorgan1]

So, how do i take a spherical render in VRay 2.0? And then the more important question i think, how do i make it so it can be viewed correctly on a phone? I presume i would need more software for that?

Thanks for the help!

[philippelamoureux]

for 360 panos :

 

for 360 stereoscopic panos (static pov VR) : https://labs.chaosgroup.com/index.php/portfolio/guide-to-virtual-reality-2/

 

Now, i'm not sure you can do the stereo stuff with vray 2.0

Try to update to 3.3 because it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better!

[edgemaster]

I tried the Google cardboard app the other day and it worked fine on importing 360 renderings. Just have to name first part with Pano_ as the prefix of the name for the app to the image. Just using my note 4 and it worked fine. I used Vray renderer and it was very easy just doing the camera override to 360 FOV. I purchased a set of goggles to insert my phone into and that was fun too.

[eddieisraelsky]

Hi Guys!

Spherical photographs are cool, but you can also make navigable experiences with your 3D/CAD model.

By any chance have you checked out WakingApp's ENTiTi Creator? (http://www.wakingapp.com)

With this software you can import your 3d models and be able to create amazing presentation in VR in no time, with no coding required.

PM me if I can help you out

[innerdream]

Hi Guys!

Spherical photographs are cool, but you can also make navigable experiences with your 3D/CAD model.

By any chance have you checked out WakingApp's ENTiTi Creator? (http://www.wakingapp.com)

With this software you can import your 3d models and be able to create amazing presentation in VR in no time, with no coding required.

PM me if I can help you out

 

Did you say amazing? Let's see amazing...

[eddieisraelsky]

Sure Robert!

 

Check out this 2 videos for reference on how to work with Spherical Video/Images:

 

https://vimeo.com/161742684

https://vimeo.com/164085611

 

For a visual reference on a project rendered for HTC Vive please check on this video from .19 seconds.

 

https://vimeo.com/184860004

 

 

Please let me know if you have any questions

[innerdream]

Cool, thanks.

 

So if I render my panorama Entiti can make the 360 viewable. Does it run on your servers and on any device? Cost?

 

Thanks.

[eddieisraelsky]

Hi Robert,

 

Correct. It runs on our servers. Currently Android/Cardboard/GearVR, iOS, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are supported.

 

No cost at the moment, eventually if you want a White Label App, we will be able to offer it for a price, but this isnt happening at this moment.

 

Please let me know if you have any further questions

[garydavis1]

You can also do mono or stereoscopic 360 renders using the FREE plugin to 3ds Max called ProRender.

 

https://radeon-prorender.github.io/index.html