feat: default other sites to the flat screen

Most videos on the web are flat, so that's the better first guess.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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phitandClaude Opus 5.5 committed 2026-10-16 22:51:06 +02:00
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@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ On the Steam Frame itself, skip these two steps: just open Chrome Canary.
**On other sites**
1. Start playing the video
2. Click the video2webxr button in the browser toolbar (pin it from the extensions menu)
3. Pick the projection in the popup (defaults to 180° 3D side by side; your choice is remembered) and click "Enter VR"
3. Pick the projection in the popup (defaults to Flat screen; your choice is remembered) and click "Enter VR"
4. Click the video in the page to enter VR. Browsers only start VR from a click in the page itself, so this step can't be skipped
5. Open the popup again to change the projection while in VR, or click "Stop"
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ The page itself gets no extra controls, so video lightboxes and overlays keep wo
| 360° equirectangular | 360° videos served as a single equirectangular image (2:1) |
| 360° 3D top/bottom, side by side | 3D equirectangular 360° videos |
| 180° | VR180 videos on YouTube, and other mono 180° videos |
| 180° 3D side by side (other sites' default) | 3D 180° videos with both eyes side by side, the most common VR video format |
| Flat screen | normal videos, shown on a virtual screen in front of you |
| 180° 3D side by side | 3D 180° videos with both eyes side by side, the most common VR video format |
| Flat screen (other sites' default) | normal videos, shown on a virtual screen in front of you |
You can switch the projection while in VR. If the image looks jumbled into squares, try a 360° EAC option; if it looks stretched or doubled, try the others.
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@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@ export const PROJECTION_LABELS = [
['FLAT', 'Flat screen'],
];
// Most VR videos outside YouTube are 180° side by side
export const DEFAULT_PROJECTION = '180_LR';
// Most videos on the web are plain flat videos
export const DEFAULT_PROJECTION = 'FLAT';