Watching 180° VR videos, the user is able to drag the video up/down. This is great when you want to watch videos lying down in your reclining chair, or lying on your couch -- to be able to drag the video up by 30° or 40° or whatever.
Unfortunately, with 360° VR videos the vertical orientation can't be changed. Now on the one hand I'm aware that there's a certain logic to this, since tilting up in one direction tilts down in the opposite direction. (E.g. tilting up in front of you tilts down behinds you.) But on the other hand, for nearly all of the 360° VR videos I have, there's nothing of interest in the "back half", or if there is and I want to see it then I'll drag the screen horizontally to view it rather than look behind me -- precisely because I'm lying on my reclining chair or couch, not standing up where it's easy to turn around. So it's always a major annoyance that 360° videos can't be moved up/down vertically the way 180° videos can.
So this is a feature request to be able to tilt 360° videos just like 180° videos.
Now I realize this is more complicated -- 180° videos have an inherent axis of rotation, while 360° doesn't. But here is what I would suggest:
- The initial drag upwards/downwards is always in the direction the user is facing, when they initiate the drag
- Sideways drags at any time follow the current "equator", so that if I've dragged the "equator" in front of me upwards by 45°, and then I drag content from behind me to in front of me, the equator is still "up by 45°" (not down by 45°, the way it would be if I had physically turned around while wearing my headset)
- After dragging up/down, for subsequent drags up/down to adjust, they will stay along the same axis originally established, as long as the user is still facing in roughly the same direction (say within 45° on either side of the axis originally established). However, if the user is facing in a different direction (e.g. they've turned 90° or are closer to that), then the vertical position totally resets and the user begins dragging from the original default position -- which makes sense since if they've turned 90°, their equator will be "angled" but still cross the middle. So that point will be starting in the same position anyways.
Hope this is understandable -- I love the app! Happy to answer further questions to clarify what I mean, if it isn't clear.
