Peelo VR Viewer plays stereoscopic 3D and 360° videos on your iPhone for use with cardboard-style VR headsets. Cardboard headsets — like Google Cardboard and other budget phone VR goggles — are cheap, simple viewers that you slot your phone into, turning it into a virtual reality display with full head tracking. There's no need for an expensive standalone headset: your iPhone does all the work, so you can watch immersive side-by-side (SBS) and over-under 3D video in 180° or 360° for the price of a basic plastic or cardboard viewer.
What sets Peelo apart is that it can stream VR videos directly from the web. Most mobile VR players only open files you have already downloaded, but Peelo has a built-in browser that plays video straight from streaming sites — so you can watch 180°, 360°, side-by-side, and top-bottom VR content online, right in your headset, without downloading anything first. You can also play local files stored on your device or transferred from your Mac.
Adding your first video — there are several ways to get videos into Peelo:
Playing a video — Tap any video in the library list to open it in the VR player. Place your iPhone into your headset and enjoy. Once your phone is in the headset, a paired Game Controller is the easiest way to play, pause, seek, and adjust settings without taking it back out.
The library shows all videos in the app's folder on your device. Subfolders are supported — tap a folder to browse its contents. Long-press any video to rename or delete it. Renaming keeps the file extension automatically, and deletion permanently removes the file from your device and cannot be undone.
Peelo includes a built-in browser that lets you open videos from websites and play them in VR. Tap the + button and choose Browse Internet to open the browser and navigate to any streaming site.
When a video is ready to play on the web page, a Watch in VR button appears at the bottom. Tap it to open the video in the VR viewer. When you close the VR player after watching a video, the browser automatically reopens on the same page.
Tap the screen to show or hide the on-screen controls: a Settings button (top left), the video title (top centre), a Close button (top right), and a bottom row with play/pause, seek bar, head tracking, stereo toggle, and recenter.
Head Tracking — Tap the head tracking button (compass icon) to turn motion-based head tracking on or off. When enabled, move your phone to look around; when disabled, drag on the screen to look around manually.
Stereo View — Tap the glasses icon to toggle between split-screen stereo mode (for use inside a headset) and single-view mode (for viewing without a headset).
Recentering — Tap the gyroscope icon to recenter the view in the direction you are facing. Only the horizontal direction is recentered; the tilt angle is preserved. On a game controller, press the top face button to recenter without taking the phone out of the headset.
Seeking — Drag the seek bar at the bottom to jump to any point in the video. Local videos loop automatically when they reach the end. On a game controller, tap the left or right shoulder button to skip 10 seconds back or forward, or hold a shoulder button and turn your head to scrub through the video.
The settings let you adjust playback and display options while in the VR player. Open them by tapping the settings icon in the top left, or by pressing the left face button on a game controller. Use the directional pad on your game controller to navigate the menu. You can also take the phone out of the headset and use the touchscreen to tap the arrows — left and right to move between settings, and up and down to adjust values.
Settings are saved per video and restored automatically the next time you open the same file.
Peelo is designed to be used with a game controller. Most MFi, Xbox, and PlayStation controllers are supported.
Head-Scrub — Hold either shoulder button and turn your head to scrub through the video. A progress bar appears in both eyes showing your current position. Release the button to resume playback from where you stopped.
For help or feedback, open the How to Use guide (the ⓘ button in the top left of the library), scroll to the bottom, and tap Contact Developer. You can optionally include diagnostic logs to help resolve issues faster. You can also reach out via the support page at rikuvirta.com/support.
Peelo VR Viewer does not upload your videos or browsing activity to any server. All files are stored locally on your device. The built-in browser does not log the addresses of pages you visit or any browsing history. Cookies are used only to authenticate video streams and are stored locally on your device. Diagnostic logs — sent only when you explicitly choose to include them in a support email — contain timestamps and app events but never URLs, page titles, or the content of any video.