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I am trying to develop a VR video player using latest Google VR SDK for Android (v1.0.3), but there is no high-level API to build VR playback controls.
YouTube VR player uses old version of gvr toolkit and renders controls (for example, com.google.android.libraries.youtube.common.ui.TouchImageView) in some way.
What is the best way to implement such controls using latest VR SDK? Do I need to use custom renderer with OpenGL or NDK?
I would be very grateful for implementation details.
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The YouTube VR app allows you to easily find and watch 360 videos and virtual reality content with certain headsets and devices. Note: the instructions below are for users with the Daydream View controller.
Search for videos You can search for videos in YouTube VR in two ways: Voice Search or keyboard search. Search is found in the player controls Menu or from the Home screen. Voice Search Click Search .
The YouTube Android Player allows you to customize the playback control by setting one of the style defined in YouTubePlayer.PlayerStyle enumeration. It currently support three styles DEFAULT, MINIMAL or CHROMELESS; YouTubePlayer.PlayerStyle.DEFAULT – The default style, showing all interactive player controls.
The first thing we need to do is to create a 3D environment that we can use to test our VR application. Doing this is thankfully very simple. First: start a new project and make sure you tick the box to make it a 3D project. Now, once in the editor, choose GameObject > 3D Object > Plane.
GVR SDK does not provide a way do draw something over VrVideoView, so we need to implement VR video by ourselves.
The main idea of solution - use GvrView with custom StereoRenderer. First of all, we need to implement VR video renderer (using VR shaders and MediaPlayer/ExoPlayer).
Then we need to implement custom controls on the scene using OpenGL ES and GVR SDK (HeadTracking, Eye, etc.).
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