Looking through this forum, members here recommend installing Vr Player.
So I went to vrplayer.codeplex.com and hit the download button. Immediately I got the message “this file is malicious and Chrome has blocked it”.
Is this download safe/dangerous? Do I heed/ignore this warning? Do I download from another source?
What to do?
Perhaps try this one :
http://www.vrplayer.com/
Hey gp20, the link you provided took me to the same website I started with. I clicked the download button just to be sure, and got the same message as before.
You’ve downloaded from this site and it’s ok?
No i though it was a different player.
I just test it and i got the same warning, forget it.
Cool, thank you for your advice. I appreciate it.
Hi there, yeh I found the same thing which is really annoying as I’m frantically trying to find a VR Player to play side-by-side videos supporting extended mode and the higher 1440p option, with head tracking and actually works!
There have been some very good reviews about VR Player though, seems very strange that our downloads are interrupted due to the possibility of being malicious.
By the way, I’ve not long created a post called ‘Cannot Run Max VR’. If anyone here knows why I’m having problems with this application or know why there are apparent concerns with downloading ‘VR Player’, then that would be a great help.
If I learn any more about downloading a safe version of ‘VR Player’, or determine that the download is in fact absolutely fine, then I’ll let you know.
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I’ve been looking over the Vr Player Web page , and the software installs a chrome extension.
"Chrome extension
This extension finds videos on a web page and provide a link to open them in VR Player:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vr-player-launcher/ajdcpbkfmcceenmocfopaebnnbppkljd"
I wonder if it’s this extension causing the trouble?
You could be right, according to Chrome help one of the reasons why a download is blocked is if it adds extensions or toolbars to the browser.
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Prior to taking a risk and allowing the download in Chrome, have you tried a program called LiveViewRift? It’s very good and performs far better than the version of MaxVR which comes with Piplay. Moreover, it has a number of distortion options to allow most if not all the main types of 3D videos, including 180 and 360 degrees and Side-By-Side with stereoscopic support.
I’ve not given up on ‘VR Player’, when I get a bit of time I’ll look into it further and probably end up installing it. I’ll let you know the outcome.
Yeah, I may just be bite the bullet and download VR Player. I’m hoping that it is the extension causing the drama.
I’m off to work now, hopefully someone will chime in who knows, between now and days end.
Now that we have 1440p on steam, I’m using Simple VR player anyway, I like it more.
Besides, I’ve done some comparison between 1080p and 1440p both in extended mode (with VR player) as in Pimax mode (with simple vr player in steam). I don’t think there’s a difference. I’m throwing a 4k 180 SBS movie at it and I think that’s actually the reason why there’s no difference: 4k is about the optimum video file size for 1080p: if FOV is about 90 degrees and you’re watching a 180 degrees movie, then your display is only display half of the horizontal source image and half of the vertical source image. So that’s 1/4 of the source image. I think you’d need an 8k SBS 180 movie to see the difference but I don’t think these exist at the moment, I couldn’t find any anyway.
I guess with 1440p in direct mode, makes VR player a little redundant. But you do obviously use VR player and seemingly without any malware issues. I’d still like to try it, can you link me to the site you downloaded from.