Interface VR

The virtual reality API which allows you to control the display of 360° VR videos.

Remarks

- See VRConfiguration to configure a source.
- The player utilises the Canvas API internally to render 360° content and is restricted to the same limitations.
- To access devicemotion events on mobile devices, a page needs to be served over https on modern browsers.
- To access devicemotion events on Safari for iOS 13+ you need to request user permission using the DeviceMotionEvent.requestPermission API
- iPhone support requires iOS 10: On iOS 9 and lower, iPhone forces HTML5 video to play in fullscreen. As a result, the canvas used by THEOplayer VR will not be visible during playback, since it will be behind the fullscreen video. iPhone users must upgrade to iOS 10 or higher for the full VR experience. Note that iPad is unaffected: VR is supported even on iOS 9 and lower.
- Cross-origin iframes on iOS: iOS blocks cross-origin iframes from accessing devicemotion events WebKit bug #152299. As a result, when using THEOplayer inside a cross-origin iframe, the player cannot rotate the VR display to align with the device's physical orientation. Fortunately, this can be worked around by listening for devicemotion events on the top frame and forwarding them as messages to the iframe. THEOplayer will automatically handle these messages as if they were native devicemotion events:

Example

const playerIframe = document.querySelector('iframe');
window.addEventListener('devicemotion', function (event) {
   playerIframe.contentWindow.postMessage({
       type : 'devicemotion',
       deviceMotionEvent : {
           acceleration : event.acceleration,
           accelerationIncludingGravity : event.accelerationIncludingGravity,
           interval : event.interval,
           rotationRate : event.rotationRate,
           timeStamp : event.timeStamp
       }
   }, '*');
});
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