About this app
Thank you for looking at our app. Its hands free, designed to work best with the Merge VR Goggles this means that you can control everything, just by looking directly at things. Experiment, have fun.
The app has many old favourite locations from the ability to stand on Mars, the magic of King Arthurs Glastonbury Tor, get married, visit the Salt Flats, experience New Year’s Fireworks on Hong Kong Harbour or chill looking at the Northern Lights. Many more new delights await including magical caverns, Bond moments and iconic locations from around the world.
To fully enjoy this virtual reality experience, insert your smartphone into the Merge VR Goggles! The Merge VR Goggles are rugged & comfortable virtual reality Goggles powered by your smartphone. You can learn more about Merge VR at mvr.io
Relax, Enjoy, Share and Review.
If you do have any problems please contact us before rating, we will do our best to help.
Instructions
1. Use WiFi
2. Install
3. Wait for the data download to complete
4. Run the app
5. Crank up the sound or use headphones
6. Relax you have time to insert your phone into your case
7. Look at a Photo Sphere to choose
8. Look down to exit
9. 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 shoulder
10. Relax and enjoy
This has been specifically optimized for the Merge VR goggles, but should work really well with any VR headset. So 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 credits
The 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
Tools
Oculus - the people that rebooted VR
Google Cardboard - for bringing VR cheaply to the masses
Unity - for their excellent product
Playmaker - for their superb build environment
Flickr equirectangular community
https://www.flickr.com/groups/equirectangular/
Sounds from
https://www.freesound.org/
http://www.freesfx.co.uk/
Photo Sphere creators and owners
Alexander Duret Lutz
Aubrey Huey
Bernd Kronmueller – special mention and thanks
Charlene-Art.com
Chichuen Wong
Chu Sir
David Rayward
Eric Fletcher
Fabio Nunes
Greg Thurtle
HamburgerJung
Janne
Jason Quinlan
Jonathan Koscik
Kiljae Lee
Lau Bernardet
Lodz360 Tomasz Brodecki
Mantis of Destiny
Masato OHTA
NASA
New York Photospheres
Paul Gunther
Pierre Vancampo
Rudolf Getel
Souvaroff Eric
Tanja Barnes
Tour 360
Voltshock - Marcus Walther
Wael Hazzazi
Zeljko Soletic
Zina Sofer
Disclaimer
Please 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
App Permissions
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
Allows applications to discover and pair bluetooth devices.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
