<a-videosphere>

Note: This documentation is for the old 0.3.0 version of A-Frame. Check out the documentation for the current 1.6.0 version

The videosphere primitive easily adds a 360-degree video background to a scene or display a 360-degree video. It is an entity that prescribes a large sphere with the video texture mapped to the inside.

Examples

<a-scene>
  <a-assets>
    <video id="antarctica" autoplay loop="true" src="antarctica.mp4">
  </a-assets>

  <!-- Using the asset management system. -->
  <a-videosphere src="#antarctica"></a-videosphere>

  <!-- Defining the URL inline. Not recommended but more comfortable for web developers. -->
  <a-videosphere src="africa.mp4"></a-videosphere>
</a-scene>

Attributes

Note that the videosphere primitive inherits common attributes.

Attribute	Component Mapping	Default Value
autoplay	`<video>`.autoplay	true
crossOrigin	`<video>`.crossOrigin	anonymous
loop	`<video>`.loop	true
radius	geometry.radius	5000
segments-height	geometry.segmentsHeight	64
segments-width	geometry.segmentsWidth	64

Equirectangular Video

In order to be seamless, videos should be equirectangular.

Caveats

iOS has a lot of restrictions on playing videos in the browser. To play an inline video texture, we must:

Set the <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes"> meta tag (will be injected if missing).
Set the webkit-playsinline attribute to the video element (is automatically added to all videos).
Pin the webpage to the iOS homescreen.

Inline video support on iOS 10 may change this. On certain Android devices or browsers, we must:

Require user interaction to trigger the video (such as a click or tap event). See Chromium Bug 178297