YouTube supports hosting of 360-degree movies. A special type of ICE Igloo Core Engine layer can be used to view these movies across the whole Igloo canvas. This layer type can also be used to view non-360 and 3D movies. This tutorial shows how to find and display a YouTube 360 movie.
Non-embeddable Movies
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Non-360 YouTube movies should be viewed using a normal WebView layer. |
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Virtual Reality - YouTube has a great selection of 360 video samples |
Some movies are restricted from embedding and these are not viewable using this layer. They can, however, be viewed in the normal way using a WebView. |
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Tutorial Video
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Add a WebView
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(You can ignore this step if you still have your YouTube WebView from the previous tutorial.) |
Create a new WebView Layer using the Immersive UI toolbar Canvas Toolbar Add Content > New > WebView. Set the URL of the Webview to http://www.youtube.com .
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Navigate to a YouTube 360 video within the WebView
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Find and select a YouTube 360 movie
Enter ‘360 movies’ in the search field in YouTube. Select one of the 360 movies from the search results.
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TIP: Virtual Reality - YouTube ( www.youtube.com/360) has a great selection of 360 video samples |
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Display a YouTube 360 movie
The WebView will detect that a YouTube video is playing, and a YouTube ‘View in 360’ button will be added to the WebView toolbar. Press the YouTube this button to open the video in 360 mode.
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Next Section: Designing Dashboards The video can be paused and played using the in-context GUI. This can also be used to scroll to different points in the movie.
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TIP: The movie in 360 mode is playing in a new layer and this can be saved to a session for reloading at a later date. |
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TIP: The WebView layer can be set to pinned and used for further selection of 360 movies. |
Next Section: Canvas UI - Video Conferencing