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Whirligig VR Media Player

Whirligig 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.

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Release Date:

Apr 4, 2016

Developer:

phileday

Publisher:

Whirligig

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About This Software

Whirligig 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.

Tutorials highlighting some of the features and how to use them here:

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

xcf, gif, tiff, tif, ilbm, pcx, tga, bmp, pnm, webp, bpg, jpeg, jpg, jps, png, pns
Whirligig will open most image formats but be aware there are restrictions on hardware so images with very high resolutions (over 8k) may not work.

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

Advice and guides can be found in the discussion forum.

System Requirements

Minimum:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 or later, Windows 10
Processor: CPU: Intel i5-3340, AMD FX 8350 equivalent or better
Memory: 4 MB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or better
Storage: 300 MB available space
VR Support: SteamVR or Oculus PC

Recommended:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 or later, Windows 10
Processor: CPU: Intel i5-4590, AMD FX 8350 equivalent or better
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or better
Storage: 300 MB available space

* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

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