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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.

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If the movie is in Youtube360 format, the preset buttons will enable viewing the movie as a fullscreen 360 movie or in the normal Youtube style with rotatable view.

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Setting Movie Start Time

If you would like the Youtube movie to start playing from a certain point in the movie you can set a start time in the URL using t=x, where x is a number of seconds into the movie.

As an example, using http://localhost:800/icetube/?t=10&v=rTM8vXtdIUA&autoplay=1&loop=1 will start playing the movie 10 seconds from the actual start.

Downloaded YouTube360 Movies

YouTube 360 movies which have been downloaded and stored as files e.g. as .mp4 files, can be viewed using the Video layer type in ICEIgloo Core Engine. The video frames may be stored in YouTube VR format and this can be converted to Equirectangular format using the Cubemap to Equirectangular effect with the Cubemap format set to Cubemap YouTube VR.

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