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Adobe Immersive Environment button gone in 2021; Where was it moved?

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
March 17, 2021
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You guys cleaned up the composition toolbar in version 18, and removed "controls with low usage such as Adobe Immersive Environment"

Where are those controls now, then? I need to change the Adobe Immersive Environment view to180° Stereoscopic SBS so I can view it in VR through my HMD properly

User interface or workspaces

HughHou

New Participant

Please Adobe. Bring the immersive workflow back in the latest Adobe After Effects. This is one of the very popular tools in the Adobe workflow for immersive video production - or soon-to-be Spatial Video. The development team should spend more time optimizing these features instead of removing them. I am a YouTuber who makes tutorials on this topic: https://youtube.com/hughhoufilm - we have close to 145K immersive editors / creators who rely on these tools every day for their creation - please do not ignore us. Thanks!

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JohnMacKenzie

New Participant

So frustrating. Adobe really needs to bring this back. I know we're just shouting at a masssive corporate wall here, but I'd like to think Adobe has enough resources to fix this.

Rameez_Khan

Legend

Hi all,

I'm sorry for the delayed response!

In After Effects v18.x.x. and higher, there is no method to access the Adobe Immersive Environment functionality. As @lynch.scott mentioned, it depended on third-party components to direct the Composition panel output to a VR headset. Their publishers no longer support those components, so we had to remove the overlying functionality in After Effects.

Thanks,

Rameez

lynch.scott

Participating Frequently

Actually @Rameez_Khan you are incorrect. Versions of Adober AE V18+ can and do export the Composition panel to a VR headset. There is just no option to change the projection inside the VR headset because the AE team removed the option button to change it. So just wanted to make that clear as to why our 360 community of creators has been so confused because it does still kind of work but we don't have the ability to change the proejction from flat to a 360 or 180 format and so in a VR headset we just see the composition window as a large TV screen inside of the headset.

But it does seem clear that after a year, and me having to litterally find the email address and write an email to the head of customer support did we get the answer that Adobe is not supporting immersive media. As the community manager for AE, you should've done a much better job helping get us this info, I shouldn't have had to find this all out on my own to get you to respond on this forum.

Rameez_Khan

Legend

Hi @lynch.scott,

Thanks for the correction. I'll bring this up again with the After Effects team and see if there is a possibility to put the button back. Please accept my apology for not keeping the community up to date on this one.

I will take it as a learning 🙂

Regards,

Rameez

lynch.scott

Participating Frequently

Bad news....
...Adobe has abandoned the Immersive Envionment and no one thought we should be told.

I finally was able to get some answers today from inside Adobe about the missing VR features in AE. In short, they have stopped supporting the Immersive Environment due to tech that has been depreciated and there doesn't seem to be an interest in supporting our community of creatorss any more.

Attached here you can see the responses I got, very fustrating that they didn't tell us this a year ago. But our company is deciding to move exclusively to a DaVinci Resolve and Fusion workflow for all of our VR cleanup and compositing.

I've posted this on the UserVoice page as well.

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adrianmeyerart

New Participant

AND YES, please UPVOTE:

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911311-after-effects/suggestions/44419497-bug-report-immersive-environment-projection-optio

leandrospaletta

Participating Frequently

I just talked with the Adobe and they confirmed that the button has been removed about a year.. and I told them that the online help is outdated with wrong information.. The support couldn't do nothing.,,. and the information will be forwarded to the superiors... but not to developers. They told me that the only way is voting at the uservoice channel.... please! vote https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911311-after-effects/suggestions/44419497-bug-report-immersive-environment-projection-optio

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adrianmeyerart

New Participant

Adobe please fix this!!

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expjektor

New Participant

adobe, you can't be serious. please, we need the ability to work with VR headsets in after effects!
there is of course the possibility via the goproplayer and after effects, but that just doesn't work well.
please, get your hands out of your pockets and address this problem.

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adrianmeyerart

New Participant

+1
Please fix.

HMD work not possible at all at the moment.

Additionally SteamVR is crashing all the time when using with latest AE.

Scott Lynch

New Participant

Please make sure to upvote the request at this link, this forum gets 0 response from Adobe:

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911311-after-effects/suggestions/44419497-bug-report-immersive-environment-projection-optio

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expjektor

New Participant

adobe, you can't be serious. please, we need the ability to work with VR headsets in after effects!
there is of course the possibility via the goproplayer and after effects, but that just doesn't work well.
please, get your hands out of your pockets and address this problem.