I'm working on a Daydream app using the Google VR SDK/NDK. To submit the app to Google Play, I need a 360-degree stereo photosphere. I've seen directions for creating this with Unity, but is there any way to create this without Unity?
I've taken a screenshot of the app in stereo mode, but I don't think that will satisfy the requirement.
Google doesn't provide any tools to capture in-app photospheres in non-Unity apps at this time. Some devs produce photospheres in modeling apps like Maya and Blender.
You could always cheat and make your "Daydream 360 degree stereoscopic image" in Photoshop. Just use the same image twice, once on top and once on the bottom.
I think others have already done this, because I have noticed a few wrong looking previews in the store. Where if I close one eye, parts of the image disappear.
If you change your mind and make one with Unity, this plugin worked nicely for me: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/38755
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I am working on a hybrid mobile app (React native) automated testing project using robot framework and Appium, i'm looking for a way to test videos streaming.
Is there a way to test if the video playback in UI works as expected ?
For the video apps , if you know that there is video playing , try to capture time left / time run for the video from time bar that is displayed in video. Comparing screenshot is not the solution but an workaround
The simplest solution is to use the UI tool to get a few screenshots spaced in time, then compare them to each other (verifying that they are different enough)
Like what #Nithin said.
Use video player to scrrenshot video at 10th minute.
Do robot test and capture screenshot at 10th minute.
Use screenshot comparison tool like applitools to comlare #2 vs #1.
Both should identical.
Just my ideas, I am not sure if such comparison tool is realible to compare video screenshot or not.
Let me know the outcome.
I am also research how to automate video streaming testing.
I have been working on adding background music to a Glitch project. I followed the Aframe.io documents to create a sound component and set it to automatically play upon running, however, when I try to run the project, the sound does not play automatically on my laptop. I have to open the Aframe inspector and un-pause my project for the music to begin. For some reason, I have not encountered this issue when I tried the same project on my phone. The sound played as expected once the program is up and running. I am not sure what is causing the sound to malfunction but any help is greatly appreciated. Here is the project I am working on: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/animation-animate?path=index.html%3A15%3A23
when working with sounds natively with Aframe, I had the same problem and one of the recommendations that I can give you is to play sounds with the HowlerJS sound library, which is compatible with most frameworks and also compatible with A-Frame
I share their page and the documentation, this library is very easy to use and implement to the project
https://howlerjs.com/
https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js#documentation
Autoplay audio on most modern browsers requires user interaction before enabling audio. You can put a div in front of your scene that upon click starts playing your background audio.
Check out a related SO question / answer for video autoplay that should help:
Autoplaying videosphere from A-frame is not working on any browser(Safari/Chrome)
Another user on A-Frame discord provided this example demo:
https://aframe-autoplay-background-music.glitch.me/
I'm really new with A-Frame / Web VR. I'd like to ask you when I am on my mobile in VR mode how can I prevent the controll / camera move? For example when I switch to VR mode I want to use my usb mouse for moving just like in "normal mode" and not the device's sensor. Is it possible?
Thanks.
I don't think this is currently possible. Another potential issue with this approach is that it will likely cause simulator sickness:
The most important guideline in designing for virtual reality is to always maintain head tracking. Never stop tracking the user’s head position inside of the application. Even a short pause in head tracking will cause some users to feel ill.
https://designguidelines.withgoogle.com/cardboard/designing-for-google-cardboard/physiological-considerations.html
That said, if you're purpose for this functionality is for spectating on a 2d screen, A-Frame 0.8.0 allows you to add a spectator camera:
https://aframe.io/docs/0.8.0/components/camera.html#properties
There are no tutorials for this yet, but you could try adding asking another question here or on a-frame slack on how to get it up and running.
My HTC Vive is set up in a different room to my developer workstation. When developing for A-Frame, I understand I can: use my desktop monitor instead of a headset; use mouse dragging instead of motion controls; use WASD instead of room-scale tracking. However, what is the preferred way to simulate the tracked controllers?
For example, how can I move the cubes in this demo from my desktop: https://aframe.io/examples/showcase/tracked-controllers
This is not yet released, but we're working on tools to be able to record camera and controllers, output to a file, and then you can load it up any device and replay the camera and controller pose and events without needing a headset. Project is led by Diego:
https://github.com/dmarcos/aframe-motion-capture
http://swimminglessonsformodernlife.com/aframe-motion-capture/examples/
This will become the common way to develop for VR without having to enter and re-enter VR to test each code change, and to do it on the go
I'm trying to implement a screen dimmer using QT4 and I wanted some advice before I get cracking instead of going into this blindly.
I want to create a top-level window that has no frame. I was thinking of making the background black and messing with the opacity so that it will dim the screen out after the system is idle for a given period of time.
The problem with this is that if this window is always on top, how can I pass click events to the window underneath it? I'm not the least bit familiar with the windows API (the solution only has to work under windows), but I'm guessing that's a good place to start. Can anyone point me to some useful classes/functions or suggest another way of doing this via QT?
If anyone's interested in the solution I came up with and the windows API functions I used, you can check out my blog posting here: http://sarcastichacker.com/getnextwindowandgetforegroundwindow
I will be updating the source and making another related posting on the same blog within the next couple of days.