Solved: Unity Can't Display THETA V Live Stream on Windows 10

[craig]

There’s a newer discussion at the link below.

Can RICOH THETA Z1 be used in Unity as a webcam?

Hi everyone, We want to build a small VR conferencing app using Unity. I see that there were a lot of posts about connecting Ricoh Theta V with Unity via USB cable (like a webcam) to live stream 4K, but I couldn’t find any post about connecting the newer Z1 camera to Unity. Did someone successfully managed to connect it to Unity via USB? I like the larger sensor on Z1 and the image quality it produces, that is why I would like to go with it. Thank you and have a nice day.

Also, improved technique from @RicoB

Stream Ricoh Theta to Unity Skybox

Note: This was done with the Theta Z1, but should work with the others too. Thought I’d share this here to help improve the quality of projects people are working on. I noticed a lot of people are projecting the cam texture on a “inverted” sphere. The problem is that sphere’s are still polygons and create “edges” in your 360 image. It’s not pretty or professional. Even worse is if you decide to use it in room-scale VR - the sphere won’t move with you and it’ll just be weird (unless you make th…