How to Make Custom 360 Videos

Testing VR Pill’s example in DepthField.

Recently, VR Pill updated his YouTube channel for the first time in 11 months and published a video instruction with jetdog8808 introducing us to DepthField, a world by a Japanese user known as VoxelKei.

According to the instruction in the video, you just need to use your desktop client, switch to a specific avatar, and then you can record your VRChat session (with third-party software, of course).

Avatars provided in the world through pedestals have specific camera settings allowing you to record panoramic videos in VRChat. In case you’re going to use the pedestals but can’t change your avatar after that for some reason, press Ctrl + \ to switch to a default avatar.

What’s even more exciting about VoxelKei’s world is the fact that you can play volumetric 360 videos providing you with an illusion of being in the scene, which is what makes DepthField such a special project. We strongly suggest checking out this world, but if you want to see what it looks like or how it works right now, make sure to watch videos on VoxelKei’s Twitter.

If you need a video as an example to test the world with friends or on your own, feel free to use one VR Pill uploaded to his channel, then copy and paste the link into the panel in VRChat: https://youtu.be/uYqxDeFUCWg. Also, if you prefer Japanese over English, we recommend VoxelKei’s tutorial instead of VR Pill’s version.

Hopefully, 360 videos will become more common soon, and maybe we’ll get to watch live 360 streams in the near future. Considering that VRCHIVE already hosts many panoramic images taken in VRChat, it's only natural to assume that the media, as well as tools wielded by content creators producing it, will eventually evolve, and after the use of 360 pictures, more and more users may start recording their own panoramic videos.

If you’re interested in this project, you should definitely visit DepthField in VRChat and check out VoxelKei’s Twitter to view more media provided and/or shared by the creator regarding this amazing work.