We had a pleasure to join the Wrocław Panthers American football club at their training session and shot parts of it in 360 video. We especially believe that VR synergizes with sport and there is much to achieve here.

With the ever-growing resource of 360-degree content from independent filmmakers and major media and sports companies, it’s hard for VR capabilities to keep up with our imagination. This is just the first step on the path for a fully immersive and compatible VR experience on a web browser. We’ve been working hard with our UX and design teams to create a simple and intuitive user experience for VR headset owners to enjoy as many online videos as they want to. You can launch any of your favorite 2D movies or standard 180-degree videos through your headset, creating an awesome, personal movie theater experience. Opera’s new video playback will not only support 360-degree videos but standard videos as well. Simply turn your head in the direction you want to look. What’s more, looking around in the video will no longer require the use of a keyboard or mouse. One simple click will engulf the viewer into the 360-degree world offered by the video. When a user browses to a video, a button above the video (next to Opera’s video pop out button) labeled ‘Watch in VR’ will appear. The newest Opera developer version comes with VR 360 player feature enabled and will automatically detect an installed VR headset. This functionality enables users to watch virtual reality videos, and standard 2D videos, instantly through their VR headsets. That’s why Opera has begun to focus on creating and embedding direct VR playback into the browser. We want to bring the best web experience to our users. It wastes time and bandwidth on blindly downloading a video.

Then quit the browser and launch a separate player app. So far they had to use inconvenient workarounds: download the video first, including spending time on finding a “download” button and waiting for the download, then. However, with limited software support, it has been difficult for VR headset owners to easily enjoy the fast growing library of 360-degree content on Youtube, Facebook and other video portals. The rapid growth of 360 videos and soon WebVR bring an exciting revolution for VR content on the web. VR will change how we experience the web forever

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