SpherePlayer 360 vs Orbio

SpherePlayer 360 plays the immersive .360 videos from your 360 camera. Open a clip and look anywhere — tilt your device or swipe to explore the whole scene. No subscription. No account. No ads. • Plays your local .360 files, straight from the Files app or the in-app picker • Look around by tilting your device, or swipe, pinch, and rotate • Live map shows where the video was shot and which way you're looking • Tap the route on the map to jump to that moment • Street names and nearby landmarks appear right on the video as you go • On-screen speed, distance, altitude and climb • Smooth, hardware-accelerated playback with rock-steady stabilization • Private — your videos never leave your device Just open a file and start watching. Map, street names, landmarks and telemetry appear for videos recorded with GPS.

Orbio plays 8K VR video on iPhone as it is. ■ Plays 8K VR video 2:1 8K HEVC such as 8192x4096 plays as it is, with no conversion and no downscaling. It makes no difference whether the file is on the phone, on a NAS or in the cloud, and seeking works the same way. ■ Folders too, from the remote Switch to VR mode and the folder list itself splits into a left and right eye view. Going into a folder, going back, choosing a video, playing, seeking and closing can all be done from the remote. Bluetooth remotes and game controllers work too. Orbio learns whichever button you press, so it is not tied to a particular model, and a single press, a double press and a long press can each do something different. A remote with only three buttons is enough to get from the list to playback. ■ No remote? Your head is enough Look down twice and a menu appears. Carry the dot onto an item with your head and hold your gaze to choose. Without opening the menu, holding your gaze on a corner of the screen will skip, play/pause or move to the next video. Both the actions and the dwell time can be changed in Settings. ■ NAS or cloud, nothing copied Connects over SMB, SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 and Cloudflare R2 and reads only the byte ranges being watched. No copy to the phone, no transcoding server, and it works with no free space on the device. SMB servers on your network are found automatically, so there are no hostnames to type. ■ Files other players cannot open HEVC tagged hev1 turns black in most players. Orbio plays it as it is, with no conversion. ■ How you watch • Headset: split into left and right views, offset by your interpupillary distance and corrected for lens distortion. • Handheld: hold the phone and look around by moving it. • 180°, 360° and fisheye projections; side-by-side and top-bottom layouts. Detected from spherical metadata, file names and the first frame, and switchable at any time during playback. ■ Pick up where you left off • Pin folders you visit often to the library. Bookmark videos and see them together across every connection. • Playback position is remembered, even for files on a server. • When a video ends, the next one in the same folder starts automatically. ■ One purchase Buy once, with nothing further to pay. Before purchase you can watch three minutes of each video. No features are restricted, so check that your own 8K files play properly before you decide. ■ Sample included A built-in test pattern lets you try VR playback without setting up a server. Its 15-degree grid is also useful for aligning a headset. --- Which formats play depends on your device and iOS version. For 8K, 30fps is the guideline: the load is pixels times frame rate, so 8K at 60fps may drop frames.