Equirect – a Rust VR video player
This is almost entirely created by Claude, not me. I know some people aren't into that. I was one of them 3 months ago. Since the beginning of the year I finally started getting more serious about trying out AI. The company I work for also had an AI week with lots of training. All I can say is I'm pretty blown away. My entire life feels like it changed over the last month from someone who mostly writes code to mostly someone that prompts AI to write code. And just for a tiny bit of context, I'm 60yrs old and have been coding since 1980. I get all the concerns, and I review all AI code at…
Equirect – a Rust VR video player launched on April 13, 2026 with 14 votes, #1,096 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Equirect is a VR video player written in Rust. It plays equirectangular format videos, which are spherical videos designed for virtual reality viewing. The player is built to handle the specific technical requirements of displaying panoramic video content in VR environments. It is intended for users who want to watch immersive 360-degree videos on VR headsets.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
A Privacy First Rust VR video player. Contribute to greggman/equirect development by creating an account on GitHub.
Unlike other VR video apps, this app does ZERO DATA COLLECTION! Apps like DeoVR claim to monitor and share almost all viewing. Apps like SkyboxVR, Pigasus, and most others claim to monitor less but still not zero. Hopefully this is portable or a step at being portable. It uses WebGPU for the graphics so could potentially run on Metal. It uses OpenXR for VR parts. I had Claude write it because my first VR video player aged out. A few months ago (January 2026) it stopped working because Meta deprecated something. No idea what. I first tried writing a WebXR player but that didn't end up working for me. I wouldn't have tried to do this except for finally getting into this whole AI code…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
This is almost entirely created by Claude, not me. I know some people aren't into that. I was one of them 3 months ago. Since the beginning of the year I finally started getting more serious about trying out AI. The company I work for also had an AI week with lots of training. All I can say is I'm pretty blown away.…
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