(1.0.0) Canvas UI - Viewing YouTube 360 Movies

YouTube supports hosting of 360-degree movies. A special type of ICE layer can be used to view these movies across the whole Igloo canvas. This tutorial shows how to find and display a YouTube 360 movie.

Non-360 YouTube movies should be viewed using a normal WebView layer.

YouTube 360 movies in 3D format are not currently supported.

Tutorial Video

Viewing YouTube 360 Movies

Add a WebView

(You can ignore this step if you still have your YouTube WebView from the previous tutorial.)

Create a new WebView Layer using the Canvas Toolbar Add Content > New > WebView. Set the URL of the Webview to http://www.youtube.com .

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.

Display a YouTube 360 movie

The WebView will detect that a YouTube video is playing, and a YouTube button will be added to the WebView toolbar. Press the YouTube button to open the video in 360 mode.

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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