Hello Skybox team,

I'm comparing the same movie (60fps, 3200x1600) with Skybox VS Samsung VR on a Samsung S7Edge.

SamsungVR seems to be able to playback at a consistent 60fps whereas Skybox seems to stutter more often. I've tried moving media to the internal SD rather than the microsd but the performance seemed even worse.

Can you recommend any tips to improve performance? Or is Skybox planning to update it's renderer so it is comparable to Samsung VR performance?

thank you in advance,
t

    Hi topsy1,

    The SamsungVR does currently do a better job in video rendering.
    We have gotten this question many time, and we are working on this problem right now :)

    Thanks for your feedback.
    Cheers,
    Andy

      topsy1,

      May I ask you what kind of videos did you use when you experienced this type of difference?
      Was it a regular movie? If it is a regular movie, which theatre mode was it played in? Is it cinema, void or space station?
      Or was it a 180/360 video?

      Since we are doing complicated 3D scene rendering during the cinema and space station scenes, so the frame rate might be more influenced in these two theatre modes.

      Andy

        I don't know if this is the case but I've read that some Exynos based phones have problems with last Daydream update

          Andy Hello. It's a 3D 180 VR video at 3200x1600 (side by side), 60fps.

              7 days later

              I've noticed this as well, hopefully they'll bring out a fix as I think it's a great app and I'd happily pay for it if it could play without the stuttering.

              • Andy replied to this.

                Neil

                Hi Neil,

                Thanks for your support.
                Our engineers are currently working to fix this problem.
                Hopefully it will be fixed very soon :)

                Cheers,
                Andy

                  17 days later

                  Hi, any update on fix for this?

                  • Andy replied to this.

                    Neil
                    STILL WORKING ON IT!!
                    Please be patient :)

                        4 months later

                        Hi, I'm not sure if there was an update for this, I'm running 0.1.6.2 is that the latest version of the app? Many thanks, Neil.

                        • Andy replied to this.

                          Neil

                          Hi,

                          The latest Gear VR version is 0.1.8, updated last week.

                          Andy

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