Oculus Video features high quality content that demonstrates the immersion of VR in engaging short 360 videos.
Anyone can submit a video to be featured prominently in both Rift and Gear VR. These videos can be short movies, trailers, or advertisements if they have standalone value. These videos will be published on demand and will be placed on the front page of Oculus Video.
Requirements
The video must be hosted on a Facebook page and have the appropriate marketing assets associated (title, description, custom thumbnail).
The video is suitable for watching in a VR headset.
The video contains content that is suitable for a wide audience.
Before your video can be hosted in Oculus Video, you'll need to publish it to your Facebook page and then send it to us for review using the Creators' Manage dashboard.
The following are the recommended specifications for videos hosted on Oculus Video.
Container: MP4
Video Codec: H.264
Progressive scan
Key frame distance: 2 seconds (2 x frame rate—e.g., 60 for 30 fps content)
Resolution: 4K to 6K
Recommended resolutions:
Monoscopic 360:
3840 x 1920 (4K)
Up to 6144 x 3072* (6K)
Stereo 360:
3840 x 3840* (4K)
Up to 6144 x 6144* (6K)
* These resolutions are out of the standard h.264 profile/level specifications, but are supported when uploaded to Facebook. See “Encoding 6K video for Facebook” below for encoding tips
We recommend a 2:1 (1:1 for stereo) aspect ratio, but others are supported (e.g., 3840 x 2160, which is 16:9).
If you are uploading large 6K videos (or file size is greater than 5GB), please notify us in advance so our team can help you process the video.
Frame Rate: 30 or 60 fps
Bit Rate:
4K: 40-60 megabits/sec, or 300-450 MB/min
6K: up to 133 megabits/sec, or 1 GB/min
Pixel Format: yuv420p
Color: Full range (0-255)
Projection Format: Equirectangular
Audio: MP3 or AAC audio, at 128 kbps or higher (for stereo audio; see Spatial audio support, below, for more information)
Spatial Media Metadata: 360 videos require spatial media metadata in order to be processed correctly when uploaded. Here are some useful tools for injecting metadata:
Adobe Media Encoder (encodes and injects)
FB360 Encoder (part of Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation; combines video and spatial audio)
Marketing Metadata: When uploading the video to Facebook, please also add a title for the video and upload a custom thumbnail (at least 1280x720) in the upload dialog box.
You may wish to encode a video in 6K. Encoding >4K videos in h.264 can be done with a tool like ffmpeg . You could use a command similar to the following that will encode a >4K source video into a MP4 container as h.264:
ffmpeg -i input6k.mov -c:v libx264 -preset fast -crf 18 -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:a aac -b:a 128k -movflags faststart output6k.mp4
Encoding with a crf value of 18 creates “visually lossless” output and maps nicely to around 1 GB/min for 6K x 6K stereo video and 325 MB/minute for 3840 x 3840 stereo video. Increasing the crf value decreases video quality and reduces file size.
After encoding using ffmpeg, inject the proper metadata before uploading to Facebook:
We recommend using the Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation to create spatial audio for videos. The Spatial Workstation download comes with the FB360 Encoder standalone application that will inject the necessary metadata and combine the audio and video files together into a single MP4 ready for uploading to Facebook.
Suggested input formats:
8+2 channel Facebook 360 format audio
4-channel 1st order ambisonics (ambiX or FuMa)
9-channel 2nd order ambisonics (ambiX or FuMa)
Alternatively, an MP4 file with 1st order ambisonics audio muxed and injected with the Spatial Media Metadata Injector tool will also work.
Prior to uploading the video to Facebook, you can preview your video in Oculus Video by copying the video to your Samsung phone and opening it in the My Videos section of the Oculus Video app. Note that this preview is only supported if:
File naming and location:
Append the following to the video's filename:
_360 if monoscopic (e.g. test_video_360.mp4)
_360_TB if top-bottom stereoscopic (e.g. test_video_360_TB.mp4)
Place video in /sdcard/Movies
Max resolution:
3840x1920 resolution at 30 FPS
2048x2048 resolution at 60 FPS
Bitrate: 20 megabits/sec
We require that you first publish a secret video on Facebook to allow the Oculus team to preview your video and provide feedback at least 5 business days prior to the intended launch date. Secret videos will not appear on your Facebook page, but anyone who knows the URL will be able to view the video.
To publish a secret video to a Facebook page:
To retrieve the URL for your secret video:
At any time you can convert your secret video to a public video.