Orbulus, for Cardboard VR
This new app has many old favourite locations from the ability to stand on Mars, visiting the Salt Flats, New Year’s Fireworks on Hong Kong Harbour or chill looking at the Northern Lights. Many new delights await including caverns, Bond moments and new iconic locations from around the world.
Relax, Enjoy, Share and Review.
If you do have any problems please contact us before giving us 1 star. A number of devices do not like the large textures we have to use. We will supply you with your own lite version.
Instructions1. Use WiFi2. Install3. Wait for the data download to complete4. Run the app5. Crank up the sound or use headphones6. Relax you have time to insert your phone into your case7. Look at a Photo Sphere to choose8. Look down to exit9. When in a Photo Sphere you can zoom by moving your ear to your right shoulder zoom out by moving your ear to your left shoulder10. Relax and enjoy
This has been specifically optimized for the Google Cardboard, but works really well with the DODOcase Smartphone VR Viewer (http://goo.gl/jZNl6y), the Durvios Dive (http://goo.gl/UE5f4Z) and the Stooksy VR. If you have any Smartphone VR Viewer (Cardboard or Plastic) you will enjoy this experience. Crank up the sound or use those headphones!
General Information, thanks and creditsThe Photo Sphere community has produced some fantastic pieces of photography and until now have been limited to displaying them on flat screens. Virtual Reality technologies are changing this. Orbulus puts you in the center of the composition. We are presenting many of the best examples of this work from around the world, with the creators permissions, for you to enjoy at your own pace.
Enjoy.
Credits due where credits due
ToolsOculus
- the people that rebooted VRGoogle Cardboard
- for bringing VR cheaply to the massesUnity
- for their excellent productPlaymaker
- for their superb build environment
Google Photosphere communityhttps://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115970110085205516914
Flickr equirectangular communityhttps://www.flickr.com/groups/equirectangular/
Sounds fromhttps://www.freesound.org/http://www.freesfx.co.uk/
Photo Sphere creators and ownersAlexander Duret LutzAubrey HueyBernd Kronmueller – special mention and thanksCharlene-Art.comChichuen WongChu SirDavid RaywardEric FletcherFabio NunesGreg ThurtleHamburgerJungJanneJason QuinlanJonathan KoscikKiljae LeeLau BernardetLodz360 Tomasz BrodeckiMantis of DestinyMasato OHTANASANew York PhotospheresPaul GuntherPierre VancampoRudolf GetelSouvaroff EricSunsail Mark, Jon and HugoTanja BarnesTour 360Voltshock
- Marcus WaltherWael HazzaziZeljko SoleticZina Sofer
DisclaimerPlease feel free to distribute the viewer. It is free, as seen but not to reverse engineer, build upon or copy. Use of the Photo Sphere viewer conveys no rights over the content presented. The Photo Spheres and sounds remain the work of the original creators and are all subject to the Creative Commons Licence or their individual permissions. No endorsement of the viewer is implied. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en. Every care has been taken on building this viewer. It uses tried and tested software packages in the unlikely event of any problems or issues caused by installing or using this software the publisher can accept no liability for any issues.
Any suggestions or issues that you feel would be worth bringing to our attention please email us alternatively hit up our face book page, email us or use our twitter feed. #vrcraftworks
Category : Casual
Reviews (29)
The app is supposed to allow user to select a scene to view, but app does not work. I can not make a selection
cool app for VR headsets shows 360 pictures of various places around the world
doesnt open just crashes on my one plus 5
Not sure what is it useful for... It has a very cool interface but you are able to view only preset panoramas and there is no option to load your own... Also all panoramas are flat not 3D and the quality odf image is rather averadge... I's a pitty as with this interface the app could be really outstanding bit right now it's just 'browse it once and forget'... To have it really great just add an option to browse and view users panoramas and support 3d panoranas - you can make this options as paid version
Good app. I really like the interface. The only thing that this needs is the ability to display user created photospheres. I have been experimenting and the only app that I can find that works to view my images is the 360 viewer in the cardboard demo app. If I could get a sphere wall of my images it would rock!
This app filled a hole in my heart I was only vaguely aware existed! 10/10 would lose themselves in the music, the moment... mom's spaghetti.
Same problem as other recent nexus 5 reviews. We build vr loading screen happens. Then black screen with alignment lines and no further progress.
Working on Z3 Compact now, thanks for looking into that guys. However, image often skips around, making it hard to view/select when looking straight ahead. Very strange behavior, otherwise getting better!
I can't even get past the boot screen. Restarted phone and still crashes.
I know it is a work in progress, so congrats are in order. It is lovely. But I do wish I could rotate the spheres to get the full 360°. Both when choosing and inside of the orbs. I want to see what is behind me. And bring the ones I want to look at in front of me. Used with an LG G4.
Spectacular app! Vast amount of photos and great quality as well. Tested on a bq E5 4G (CM 12.1). Update: v5 is working great (one of the previous ones stopped working so I stopped using it, but now it's fixed!)
It's just a photo gallery of spherical photos. They're all plain flat 2D photos too, not stereo (both eyes just see the same image).
App closes after trying to load for a while.
Works on Google Nexus 5 after restarting the phone. Perfectly good app, would be perfect if you could add your own photospheres..
Crashes on a huawei phone android kitkat also the cube loading animation is slow and should only be shown on the first time boot of app not everytime edit: had to clear cache and data of app, wirks now
Just displays a black screen.
This version doesn't seem to work on the Nexus 5X. Displays splash screen, then alignment lines, then nothing. Screen is on, but nothing except black background. Tried uninstall/reinstall already. The mojo special edition recommended by the devs does work as an alternate.
Crashes on launch. I see the initially loading cube then it crashes. I'm using Samsung S6 edge. Any help? I'd love to give this a go.
Just after the boot screen saying "almost there".
Marshmallow on Nexus 6P. Black screen. Does nothing at all.
Doesnt even launch
Your team is doing a great work keep it up☺
Yet to see 5 stars.
Xiaomi redmi 4.. downloaded the 192 mb file. connected the wifi. Open a blank vr screen(black) , after a black and white photo... Solve it. Pls
Keeps on crashing !!
Where did the milky way part go? It was my favorite and now it's gone
Despite the promises in the text - I've been offered no support or "lite" version.
The hands free interface is a must for most headsets and the sound is a joy to the senses. I'd prefer flat previews though, dedicated thumbnails an a pop-up description perhaps. Something that really need to be improved is the display, wavy lines are not good. As a 360 photographer I'd also like to be able to replace the content with my own, like with the Gear VR.
at first I liked the no hands and then it was annoying because it was glitching back to the beginning picture and so I couldn't manually fix it . not good in this cause. also I wish I could move around and not be stuck in one picture.