VLC media player by VideoLAN is one of the most used software for playing all formats of videos in both computers and mobile devices. Now, the company has taken a new step forward and making a new update – VLC 3.0 by the end of December which will be supporting 360-degree videos. A BETA preview version is already released.
“With the help of Giroptic, VLC becomes the first major video player app to play 360-degree videos out-of-the-box. VLC 3.0 final release will merge those features on all platforms,” stated on its website
Some of the features of the all-new VLC version include playback of 360 videos following the Spatial Video spec; playback of 360 photos and panoramas following the Spherical spec; display modes with zoom, little planet and reverse little planet, and can be controlled with system’s mouse and keyboard.
VideoLAN as it is a free open source program run by non-profit organization, new media player version will be available to cross-platform while will be accelerated with OpenGL and Direct3D11 for 360-degree features.
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