Create your own VR videos for under $100

Being able to look around inside a video is a fantastic experience and creating your own VR videos is actually really easy. This quick guide shows you a simple way to produce VR video content.

What do I need to make a VR video?

Everything you need to get started in VR can be bought for around $100.

• A 360 camera, we used the bargain PanoView VR.
• A pair of Virtual reality glasses.
• A smartphone to playback inside the glasses.

What is a 360 Camera?

Similar in size to an action camera, a 360 panoramic camera captures a super wide angle. This allows you to look around in the video as you watch it. This is similar to Google Maps street view, so you can move around in the footage and explore different angles after shooting.

Spherical video can be played back in many different views and perspectives.

The footage created is called “spherical video” because it looks like a circle instead of the usual square or widescreen rectangle video we usually see.

How to make a VR video?

• It is similar to a regular action camera, you just point it in the direction you want and hit record, there is nothing different or new and that’s the awesome part of these super wide cameras for creating virtual reality.
• Typical orientation for 360 cameras are either perfectly horizontal (on a desk, on your head or under a drone) or perfectly vertical (on your chest or mounted on the edge of a vehicle).
• Just like a regular video awkward movements can be disorientating so avoid changing the angle or rotating the camera.

How to view a VR video with glasses?

Footage seamlessly integrates with most VR camera apps. You can also live stream directly from the camera. When you have the goggles on you can move your head to look around.

The benefits of using a 360 camera like Pano View

• The footage is already combined.
• You can live stream the video with a pair of virtual reality glasses.
• You don’t need to edit or process the footage, its already in the virtual reality format.
• Just like an action camera it is waterproof and can be taken on extreme adventures.

Make your own VR videos

Virtual reality brings on a whole new industry for video and entertainment, this technology is not exclusive for fancy production studios, and even if you are on a tight budget, there is equipment out there to make it easy.

If you are ready to make VR videos, check the 360 Pano cam page and start creating your first VR video now!