VR App thumbnails

Here’s how to set a custom thumbnail for a VR App in the platform. I’ll use Pegasus Ballroom to demo this feature.

When no thumbnail is set up, a default image is used. This is how the VR App looks before setting up a thumbnail:

We want to use a thumbnail that shows some of the app controls and has higher quality, let’s go through the steps to accomplish this.

1. Create a screenshot. Preferred height is 480px and width should be at least 1.5 times bigger than width, so 720px minimum in this case. Any other size will work as well.
2. Include the screenshot in the static_assets directory, so the thumbnail will be available at /static_assets/thumbnail.jpg. The easiest way to do this is updating the custom/assets.json file, adding the following entry:

   {
     "local":"static_assets/thumbnail.jpg",
     "src":"URL_TO_THUMBNAIL"
   }
   

   You’ll have to upload your thumbnail somewhere accessible by the deployment server during build. We’re using S3 in this example.

3. Just commit & push, this’ll put the thumbnail available at the following URL: https://vr.visrez.com/hyatt-regency-dallas/pegasus-ballroom/static_assets/thumbnail.jpg.

This is the end result: