Samsung today launched an online portal, dubbed Milk VR, for users of its recently released Gear VR headset, which will let them share 360-degree, spherical videos viewable with the Galaxy Note 4-driven virtual reality device.
The South Korean tech giant began selling the $200 Gear VR in its own online store and through AT&T earlier this month.
Milk VR, a product of Samsung Research America, offers Gear VR users a simple grid of videos to download and view, arranged in categories labeled "Fresh," "Trending," "Action," "Planet VR," "Music," "Sports," and "VR Life."
While anybody can attempt to register to use the site for uploading video, Samsung is vetting applications pretty closely to "ensure that only high quality, registered partners can upload," the company said.
Those who do make the cut will be able to share video that meets certain specifications. All uploads must comprise a 360-degree spherical video formatted as .mp4s (standard monoscopic 360, steroscopic 360 top/bottom, and steroscopic 360 left/right are all acceptable) at native resolution with embedded audio, as well as a video thumbnail, and a preview image. Titles and descriptions of uploaded videos are also required.
Video clips uploaded to Milk VR have a 5GB size limit.
The site is currently supporting low-quality and high-quality output formats using the h.264 codec but Samsung said that in the future, h.265 may be supported for "super quality" output.
For the full rundown on submission specs, check out Samsung's content instructions at Milk VR.
Samsung also offered some suggestions for a Milk VR-ready video clip:
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