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Convert any video to VR — free 2D to 3D, side by side

Drop in any normal video and get it back as 3D for a VR headset: a side-by-side MP4 with a separate picture for each eye, built from the depth our AI reads in every frame. Your audio comes along. No app to install, no account, no watermark, 2 minutes free.

By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: September 2026

No watermark on the free export. 3D side-by-side MP4s for VR headsets and 3D TVs, with your sound, straight out — free videos up to 2 minutes, up to 1280 px in.

What you get back

Two MP4s. The full side-by-side one is for VR headsets: the left half is what your left eye sees, the right half what your right eye sees. The half side-by-side one squeezes each eye to half width, which is the format most 3D TVs and projectors expect. A 1280×720 clip comes back as 2560×720. Play it in any VR video player that has a 3D side-by-side (SBS) setting and the scene gets real depth — people stand in front of the background instead of on it.

It is a flat 3D screen in front of you, the way a 3D film looks in a cinema. It is not a 180° or 360° video you can look around in: a normal camera only filmed what was in front of it, and nothing can honestly add what was never recorded.

• Full side-by-side MP4 for VR headsets, plus a half side-by-side MP4 for 3D TVs
• Your original sound track, kept
• No watermark, on any tier
• Upload deleted right after processing, result wiped within 45 minutes

How a flat video gets depth

Our AI estimates, for every pixel in every frame, how far away it is from the camera. From that depth map it draws the scene twice, shifted slightly the way your two eyes see the world, and fills in the thin edges that one eye can see and the other cannot.

The model we use looks at the video as a sequence rather than one frame at a time, and it detects scene cuts. That matters: depth that jumps from frame to frame makes 3D shimmer and feel wrong in a headset. Keeping it steady over time is most of the work.

It works best on footage with clear layers — people in a street, a room, a landscape with a foreground. Very flat shots (a wall, a screen recording) have little depth to find, so the result looks almost 2D. Fast camera shakes and heavy motion blur are hard for any depth estimate.

How long it takes

Measured on our own graphics card on 23 September 2026: a one-minute 720p clip was converted in 34 seconds, loading the model included. A full free 2-minute clip is usually ready in about a minute, plus any queue. You will see a frame counter while it runs.

Converting to 3D is real GPU time on a card in a machine here, which is why there is a length limit at all — but it is far cheaper than upscaling, so the free tier is long.

What free gets you, and what a pass adds

Free: videos up to 2 minutes. Anything larger than 1280 pixels on its longest side is scaled down to that first, so a 1080p clip comes back as a 2560×720 side-by-side.

Leave your email for the free monthly pass and the limit moves to 5 minutes at the same resolution. With a ShinobiTools pass it goes to 10 minutes and the input cap rises to 1920 pixels, so a 1080p clip keeps its full resolution and comes back as 3840×1080.

• Free — 2 minutes, up to 1280 px in
• Free monthly pass (email) — 5 minutes, up to 1280 px in
• ShinobiTools pass — 10 minutes, up to 1920 px in (full 1080p)
• No watermark on any of them

Playing it on your headset or 3D screen

Meta Quest: copy the MP4 to the headset (or open the download in the Quest browser) and play it in a video player that supports 3D side-by-side; choose the SBS or 3D side-by-side mode. Players such as DeoVR, Skybox and Pigasus all have it.

Apple Vision Pro: the built-in Photos app expects Apple's own spatial format, which this is not. Use a player app that supports side-by-side 3D video.

3D TVs and projectors: use the half side-by-side file. Each eye's picture is squeezed to half width, which is what most 3D TVs and projectors expect; switch the screen's 3D mode to side-by-side.

Phone VR viewer: play the file full screen in landscape and put the phone in a cardboard-style viewer.

How to convert a video to VR

Nothing to install and no account. The upload is deleted right after processing and the result is wiped within 45 minutes.

1. Drop an MP4, MOV or WebM of up to 2 minutes in the box above (more with a pass).
2. Wait while it runs on our GPU — the frame counter shows where it is.
3. Download the 3D side-by-side MP4.
4. Play it on your headset in SBS mode.

By Sam Ridder — I build and run VideoBGNinja on my own hardware, on my own. Who I am. I tested this converter on real film footage before putting it online.

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