Did you know Meta Quest 3 has a 3D camera that
can capture high-quality 4K 3D Videos? In this tutorial, I will teach you how to enable this
hidden feature and how to capture stable Mixed Reality 3D videos to release on YouTube VR
just like this one. If you are a VR video game content creator and trying to break
through the noise, 3D gameplay videos in mixed reality will give you a competitive edge. If
you are a 3D photographer and filmmaker like me, you will learn the best render settings for
3D videos. Why wait till Apple Vision Pro if your Meta Quest 3 can already capture
Spatial Video? Let's know how now! Well, during recording this video, Apple just
dropped a major update on iPhone 15 Pro. This is an iPhone with the Zhiyun Light on top Now, we can capture Spatial Video directly on an iPhone
for Apple Vision Pro. It is kinda big deal. So, how it is compared to Spatial Video
on Meta Quest 3. Well lucky you, we are going to discuss it in this video as well. Ok, no time to waste, let's write some command
line codes and enable all the hidden camera features that Meta don't want you to know. First,
make sure you enable Developer Mode. It is very easy, just go to this URL and signup to be a Meta
Developer. It is 100% FREE and unlocks all the powerful features Meta Quest 3 offers, including
using SideQuest and playing Thousands of VR games that are currently not on the Meta Quest Store.
Next, go on your Meta Quest mobile app, find your Quest 3 here under devices. Go to
Headset settings and enable Developer Mode. Do you feel like a hacker now? If you are new to
these advanced techniques and want to learn more, don't forget to subscribe to me and
Kimchi and give this video a LIKE. Now go ahead and connect your Meta Quest
3 to your PC or Mac using the USB-C Cable. Make sure to use the USB-C cable come with
your Quest 3 if the connection is not stable. On PC is really easy. Just go ahead and
install ADB android Platform tool and SideQuest - both are free, and you are
ready for the next step. For Mac it is a bit more work. Don't worry, I
will break it down for you here. First, download SideQuest here. Install it and
connect your Quest 3. Follow the instructions to enable the connection. You can remember
this computer so you don't need to confirm it next time inside Headset. Very time-saving
feature compared to Android File Transfer. Now click command plus space bar
to bring up your search. Type in Terminal and open the Terminal command.
Copy and paste there 2 lines of code one by one to install the homebrew package
manager and adb. Type in "adb devices" on your terminal after installation, you should
be able to see your Meta Quest 3 now. Great! Now type in these 5 lines of command one
by one to enable hidden features. On PC, you can just use SideQuest to do it.
On Mac, you can keep using the terminal command line to enable features one by one.
I provided all the command line code in the description down below for free. Show some love
by dropping me a thank you comment down below! Let me explain each line and what it does.
Line 1 enables left and right eye capture - which makes your capture video 3D.
Line 2 set the width to 3840 and line 3 set the height to 1920 which is 4K.
Line 4 set your frame rate to 30fps. This creates a smooth capture without
frame-dropping. You can also experiment and set the value to 1 - which captures the frame
rate to match your game settings. If you are playing a VR Game in 120hz refresh rate,
it will try to capture 120fps. Pretty nut! You can also add 2 more lines of codes
here to lock the refresh rate and frame rate to 72fps. This technically gives you
60fps capture - the best of both worlds. Last line, set your video bitrate
to 40Mbps - which is the maximum capture quality without crashing. You can
even do 45, but I am not recommanded it. I did not come up with all these. They are all
in the Meta Quest official documentation. So read more there to customize your
capture settings to your liking. You can optionally also enable stabilization
within your Meta Quest 3 under Settings and Camera. I don't suggest moving your head
that much during capture to avoid making your viewers motion-sick in VR. Later on I
will teach you how to use the handy leveler system just like in the Canon R5C to help you
level your shot to create amazing VR video every time you shoot. So your capture
can look professional! Keep watching! Okay now, you can simply hold down the Meta Button
and the trigger button together and hold it for 2 seconds to start video recording. Hold the Meta
Button and the trigger button together again for 2 seconds to stop recording. The 4K 3D video
will be in your Oculus folder under videoshots. After I finished this tutorial, OPEN PC Reviews
launched a similar tutorial, and his method is a lot simpler. All you need is to enable
developer mode, plug in your Meta Quest 3, run some BAT files, and you are done! I provide
the links down below if you want the easy way out. Still, it would help if you understood what each
line of code does. As your VR game might be more resource hungry and with such a high resolution
and frame rate, you will experience drop frame. As a creator, you should always balance quality
and smoothness. If your recording is glitchy, it is time to drop the resolution, turn the
frame rate value to 0, and reduce the bitrate to 30Mbps to have a better recording and gameplay
experience, for yourself and for your viewers. You can not watch this 3D Video natively on
your Meta Quest 3 unless you use third-party player like Skybox VR. Inside Skybox,
you will need to go to advanced settings, turn on Full SBS Matching to make sure the 3D
video is playing correctly in 1 by 1 ratio. So, if you want to release this video on your 3D
TV, YouTube VR and Meta Quest TV, you will need to do extra editing and 3D metadata injection.
Lucky, this tutorial will also teach you how to edit 3D videos in your favorite editing software.
But before that, let me share some tips and tricks for capturing the best 3D Videos without making
your viewer's motion sick. When filming in 3D, the most important principle is to keep your camera
as level as possible without any tilting. When you are inside Meta Quest 3, it is really hard to
tell if your headset is level. There is a third party app that will help you. Meet ImmerGallery on
App lab. It is not a free app, but if you are into 3D photography, you probably already have it as
ImmerGallery is the best VR180 and 360 photo app in the Meta Quest ecosystem. Inside ImmerGallery
on Quest 3, go to settings - advanced - 3D Camera menu and enable it. You will also be able
to see your recording video specs here. Hide the menu, you will be able to capture
your 3D Video. Press the trigger button will bring up the leveler for 3 seconds. Use it
to get a perfect level image before capturing your video. Again the short cut to start and stop
recording is to hold down Meta Quest Button and trigger button together for 2 seconds. When
you combine this with image stabilization, you will get a really smooth 3D Video. These are
features that I wish Kandao EGO could have. You can also capture 3D photos and view them directly
inside immerGallery without any extra work. Now, move all the 3D Videos to your computer
and use your favorite editing software to assemble an edit. I use Davinci Resolve here,
but you can also use Premiere or FCP. Then render out ProRES 422 video in 3840 by 1920
4K video. Now it is the most important part: you need to inject 3D metadata to tell your 3DTV
or platforms like YouTube VR or Meta Quest TV you are uploading a 3D video. So, the video will
work on a 3DTV like here in Red and Cyan anaglyph, and inside Meta Quest 3 using YouTube
VR, Meta Quest TV or Skybox VR Player. To do that, you will need FFMPEG. If you don't
have FFMPEG, please follow this tutorial here to install it. It is the single most important
piece of free software to encode immersive media - there is no excuse not to learn it.
Then, open terminal again on your mac. PC, you can type CMD in your address bar to
enter Command line. Mac, make sure you are CD into the folder where your rendered video file
located. Then copy and paste this command line in: Replace InputFilename.mov to your video file.
Aspect ratio is 1:1 here so it is 1. This is also important for Meta Quest 3 as it currently
only allows you to capture 1 by 1 3D video in 4K. This command do not transcode your video file.
MKV file is the highest quality method without any encoding of the original ProRES file - this keeps
the highest quality of your original source video, result in the best quality video
on YouTube and inside Meta Quest 3. If this does not work for you. You can also
try this command line to transcode it into H.264 - It will lose quality but with a wider
compatibility - especially for 3DTV world. Try both to see which one works best for your
setup and comment your setup down below. If you appreciated the depth of my
tutorial and left no stone unturn, please subscribe and give Kimchi a
LIKE! We really appreciate your support, and it won't be us if it is not for you. You are
technically our BOSS! So BOSS, give us a like! Now sideload the video back into your
Meta Quest 3 for local viewing or upload it directly on YouTube. If you are on M1 M2
or M3 MAC, sideload might not work correctly with Android File Transfer. So I highly
recommand using SideQuest. Not only does it remember your computer, it also faster
in transferring files, and it is 100% free. There is 1 problem. After your transfer your video
files back onto the Movies folder or any folder, it won't refresh the library in
your local Quest 3 hard drive. So, open up Terminal again or use ADB
tool inside Sidequest if you are on PC. Copy and paste another magic line of code
to force Meta Quest 3 to do a hard refresh. Boom! Now all the new video files are
on your Quest 3 without the need of restarting your Quest 3 - just save
you another 5-min. Write down this tip and impress your friends next
time you see them sideloading. The new video file will play on any player
automatically. No more hack is needed. If you upload it on YouTube, it will also
play on any 3DTV - so you don't need a VR headset to showcase your amazing 3D
Video. Meta Quest 3 will just be your new 4K 3D camera - and the whole family can
enjoy it together during this holiday season. You know what is even better
during the holiday season? Saving money during black Friday for a
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head and what is my Meta Quest 3 movie setup. This is the brand new Zyber Elite
Strape and Neck battery for Quest 3. It is the only battery I found that works,
and it works forever. And you need an Elite Strape if you are planning to
use the Quest for long time. This is the most affordable one compared to
the official one which costs a lot more. Another news, Apple launched iOs 17.2
beta on iPhone 15 Pro and Pro MAX to enable Spatial Video capture. BUT,
the spatial video is only limited to 1080P in 30fps. And it is compressed
HEVC, no Apple RAW. It does not has any manual camera settings. Here is left eye
comparison. Left is my iPhone 15 Pro Max capture and right is Meta Quest 3 3D camera
capture. What do you think? Comment below! It is an exciting world for 3D photographer
and videographer with all these affordable new methods to capture Stereo 3D or Spatial Video. We
don't know if you can actually have 6DoF movement on the Spatial Video on Apple Vision Pro - so far,
the answer is NO. But all of these new methods has depth data from Lidar or Depth camera on Quest 3.
So it is very interested to find out what is next for immersive storytelling. Will Spatial define
the new standard? Will AI can estimate depth to provide 6 degree of freedom movement? Well lots of
questions and as a reporter and camera technician, Kimchi and I are here to find out the
answers for you! If you work for Apple, please hit me up so I can try out your Vision
Pro. I think my feedback, or collective wisdom for all our viewers, will be really helpful for all
these tech giants moving forward. Do you agree? If you are new here, don't forget to subscribe
and hit the notification bell. If you want to learn how to capture Spatial video with
your iPhone, check out this short tutorial right here. If you are looking for some
high production value 3D video to watch, check out this playlist. And I will
see you in the Metaverse! Ciao!
