{"id":165215,"date":"2025-06-07T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/165215\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:50:09","slug":"googles-veo-3-can-make-vr-slop-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/165215\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Veo 3 Can Make VR Slop, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just when we thought the AI slop fest was over, Google pulls us right back in. First, we had YouTube slop<\/a>, then video game slop<\/a>, and then we had Michael Bay slop.<\/a> And just in case you weren\u2019t already slopped full of slop juice squeezed straight from the slop teat of Veo 3, Google\u2019s latest AI video generator model, you all had to go ahead and invent new\u00a0kinds of AI slop that make Sloppy Joe himself say, \u201cI think that\u2019s too much slop for me, fam.\u201d Introducing: 360-degree video slop made by Google Veo 3.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a collection of a bunch of the clips I created with VEO 3 to test out it’s ability to generate 360\u00b0 video.<\/p>\n

I’ll post a link below to a VR ready youtube video so you can test it on your own VR headsets. pic.twitter.com\/yU966rNhGR<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Martin Nebelong (@MartinNebelong) June 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s right, your poor, innocent VR content isn\u2019t safe from Veo 3\u2019s generative abilities either. While I haven\u2019t had a chance to actually view this content in VR, creating it couldn\u2019t be simpler. Per Henry Daubrez on X<\/a>, who initially discovered the trick, all you have to do is add \u201cmake it 360 degrees\u201d to your Veo 3 prompt to generate video that can later be viewed in VR. Well, almost. There\u2019s a little bit of fussing with the metadata afterwards, too, in order to get everything working right.<\/p>\n

In a post on X, Daubrez says, \u201c\u2026the next step is to inject the right metadata in your file so you can play it as an actual 360 video. I tried a few available solutions, but in the end, using the Terminal was the only one [that] actually [worked] for me with ExifTool\u2026 Once it\u2019s saved with the right metadata, it will be recognized as an actual 360\/VR video, meaning you can just play it in VLC and drag your mouse to look around.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\ud83e\udd2f How to generate VR\/ 360\u00b0 videos directly with VEO3 <\/p>\n

Alright, I just randomly stumbled on that very neat trick: If you prompt for a 360\u00b0 video in VEO3 (like literally write “360\u00b0” ) it can generate a Monoscopic 360 video, then the next step is to inject the right metadata in\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/TDqynGEhio<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Henry Daubrez \ud83c\udf38\ud83d\udc80 (@henrydaubrez) May 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But that\u2019s pretty much it: prompt Veo 3 and then slightly alter the metadata, and boom, you\u2019ve got an AI-generated video that can be played back in VR. There are some quirks, of course, like the addition of black bars around some of the generated content. But for the most part, Veo 3 works about as well with 360-degree content as it does with anything else prompters have thrown at it, especially, as Daubrez mentions, when you consider that this likely isn\u2019t even a planned feature of Veo 3. If you want to watch some of Veo 3\u2019s ad hoc VR video for yourself, there\u2019s already some on YouTube for your viewing pleasure (or displeasure, depending on what your relationship to AI is).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Just like with any Veo 3 application, there\u2019s big potential for slop here, but I\u2019ll be honest, I\u2019m going to give this one a bit of a pass. I don\u2019t think VR video is quite at the point of high art yet (no offense, VR creators), and, to be honest, I kind of like the idea of being able to generate VR experiences that don\u2019t exist yet, especially because the VR catalog is still somewhat limited. I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll end up eating those words sooner rather than later, and just like a Sloppy Joe, it might eventually erode your body from the inside out\u2014but hey, there\u2019s a time and a place for junk food, so have fun while you can, folks.<\/p>\n