Release date: 04/04/2016Whirligig is a VR media player for the playback and viewing of video files and images. It support a wide range of projection types, render paths and has many other features to make your experience as enjoyable as possible.
Features
- Media Foundation (Windows 8 and 10 only)
Media Foundation offers good suuport 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.
- Video Lan
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,pnsWhirligig 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 3x2
- Facebook Pyramid
- GardenGnome Cube Map 3x2
- Kodak PixPro SP360
- LatLong 360x90
- LG360
- Octane
- Panasonic A500
- Ricoh Theta S
- Samsung Gear 360
- Vray Cubemap Invert
- Vray Cubemap
Tutorials highlighting some of the features and how to use them can be found HERE.