HomeThe Huawei VR headset is the Chinese phone maker's best impression of the Samsung Gear VR using its own Huawei P9 handset. It creates an immersive 360 experience, even if the phone's 1080p display is noticeably inferior. Unlike the Samsung Gear VR that uses micro USB, the Huawei VR has a USB Type-C connection behind its plastic cover where the phone snaps backward into the headset.
Things needed to watch 3D movies on Huawei VR Headset
- Huawei VR Headset.
- A phone, Huawei VR Headset compatible phone models including Huawei P9 and P9 Plus.
- A 3D movie, you can't turn a 2D movie into a 3D so none of your existing 2D titles will work. You need to buy a 3D movie.
- An app to play 3D movies for Huawei VR Headset
Obvious, currently, a lot of people will have got Huawei VR Headset and the compatible phone in hand. Then we will mainly focus on talking about how to download compatible VR player app and find 3D movie to view on Huawei VR Headset.
Best VR Player for Huawei VR Headset
Since the Huawei VR Headset supported Huawei P9 and Huawei P9 Plus are both Android based operating system, therefore, just download and install a free VR video players for Android will fix the problem. And following are the 3 best free VR video players for Android:
VR Player
VR Player lets you have the realistic experience through the VR movies. This free to use 3D video player is perfect to put the users in action. This VR video player can effectively play the 2D, 3D Top-Bottom, 3D SBS videos on your smartphone. If you are interested in having the experience of theatre with your smartphone, then you must install the VR Player in it. Here are some of the main features of this VR player.
VR Gesture Player
The VR Gesture plays VR videos including 360 degree video, Side by Side 3D and Top-Bottom video play and normal videos like IMAX. The most distinctive feature of this app is its input method of hand gesture-based user interface. It allows touchless control of a smartphone. Users are ready to jump into the virtual reality by inserting VR Gesture Player installed smartphone into a Head Mounted Display (HMD) device. Hand gestures recognized by the rear camera of a smartphone control the app that users don' t need to take out the smartphone from the HMD for menu selection.
Homido 360 VR Player
Homido Video Player comes from an VR Headset maker itself and consists of various multiple features. Not only it can play VR , 2D Videos alongside 360 Side By Side formats, but it even tries to project normal 2D Videos as 360 videos if the option is selected. The result widely depends upon the video type, but we managed to get a real decent 360 degree experience on lesser-resolution 2D Videos.
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Find and create 3D movie for Huawei VR Headset
You can download 3D movies from 3D movie download sites such as Yify Torrents, The IIIustrated 3D Movie List, forfree3d.com, cinemalines.com, worldfree4u.me, etc. For those people who are pursue for 3D movie with the best picture and sound quality, renting or buying 3D Blu-ray discs would be the best choices.
The problem here is that the 3D movie formats by Huawei VR Headset compatible VR video player are mainly MP4 or MKV with SBS or TAB mode, the 3D movies you have downloaded from above listed sites may using a compatible 3D file format or mode, not to mention the 3D Blu-ray disc.
Best 3D Movie Converter for Huawei VR Headset
The good news is that here comes Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, a comprehensive 3D movie converter that not only assists you to convert unsupported 3D movie downloaded from 3D sites to Huawei VR Headset VR video player readable 3D MP4/MKV in either SBS or TAB mode, but also facilitates you to bypass copy protection from 3D Blu-ray disc and then directly rip or convert 3D Blu-ray to the compatible 3D formats listed above.
Adjust output 3D profile parameters
To get the best output 3D quality settings, the application allows you to select between full 3D SBS and half 3D SBS mode, you can choose according to the performance of your 3D VR video player app, if your 3D VR video player has a powerful graphic power, just select the full 3D SBS, which will ensure a better quality than half 3D SBS. Apart from that, you can also use the program to change 3D video depth to get better 3D visual effect, check "Switch Left Right Image" to change the image display order for the 3D SBS movie.
For Mac users, you can go to download Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac to perform the conversion on macOS High Sierra, macOS Sierra, Mac OS X El Capitan, Mac OS X Yosemite, Mac OS X Mavericks, etc.
How to Convert 3D Movie or Rip 3D Blu-ray Disc for Huawei VR Headset?
Step 1: Load 3D movies or 3D Blu-ray disc into the program.
Start the program on your computer, click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" to load 3D movies into the program. For loading 3D Blu-ray disc, insert your 3D Blu-ray disc into an external 3D Blu-ray drive, click "File" > "Load from disc" to import 3D Blu-ray disc into the program.
Step 2: Output Huawei VR compatible 3d format.
Tap on "Format" bar and find "3D Video", there are a lot of format options for you. You can choose one of Huawei VR player compatible 3D formats such as "MP4 Side-by-Side 3D Video (*.mp4)" according to the VR player you are using.
Step 3: Adjust 3D profile settings.
Click "Settings" to open "Profile Settings" window, here you can adjust the 3D depth, change image display order for 3D SBS movie, you can also make a choice between full sbs/tab and half sbs and tab according to your own needs.
Step 4: Begin the final conversion process.
Go back to the main interface and start the 3D Movie/Blu-ray to Huawei VR player supported 3D SBS MP4 conversion process by hitting right-bottom "Convert" button.
When the conversion is finished, you will have no problem to enjoy created 3D movies on Huawei VR with Huawei P9/P9 Plus phone.
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