Valve Preparing To Roll Out SteamVR 360 Video Playback

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Valve Preparing To Roll Out SteamVR 360 Video Playback

Valve issued a new Steam client beta this afternoon where the sole listed change are the internal changes for supporting SteamVR 360 video playback...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Valve-Steam-Update-360-Video

[fuzz]

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[schmidtbag]

Not having speakers in the computer I'm sitting at, what are the limitations of this? For example can it do any of the following:
* Play various video formats, whether that be .avi, .mp4, .mpg, etc
* Viewports positioned side-by-side, top to bottom, or "cyclops" (by this, I mean videos that only have 1 viewport but have appropriate lens distortion)
* Utilize various projections such as planar, dome, half-dome, box, etc
So far I only know of 1 application that can do all of these things. It's Windows-only, and hasn't been updated since I think 2013. It'd be nice to see something maintained and Linux compatible that can do these things.