(1.1.0) 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 ‘View in 360’ button will be added to the WebView toolbar. Press this 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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