Video player for Mac
Watch VR on your Mac. No headset needed.VR video, no headset required.No headset? No problem.VR video and every other video. One player.
Drag to look around, scroll to zoom.Parallax plays 180°, 360°, fisheye and spatial video, plus every regular video you own.
One-time purchase · macOS 12 or later
Built so you never have to fiddle
Opens anything
MKV, AVI, WebM, DTS and AC3 audio, HEVC 10-bit, AV1. No converting, no codec packs, no waiting. Your new everyday player.
Knows what it's looking at
Reads the picture itself to tell 180°, 360°, side-by-side, top-bottom, fisheye and flat videos apart.
Look around with your mouse
Drag to look, scroll to zoom. No headset needed: VR video on the screen you already have.
Remembers every file
Adjust a video once and Parallax keeps that setting for that file. Next time it just plays.
Spatial video, either eye
Plays iPhone and Vision Pro spatial clips and lets you pick which eye you watch.
Everything included
Subtitles, audio tracks, speed control, timeline previews, playlists. One price, no subscription.
Your VR footage, and every other video too
Canon dual fisheye, Insta360, exported GoPro 360, iPhone and Vision Pro spatial video, and downloaded VR180 and 360 files.Plus all your regular movies, shows and clips, whatever the format.
Questions
Do I need a VR headset?
No. Parallax shows VR video on your Mac's screen. Drag to look around, scroll to zoom.
Will it play my normal movies too?
Yes. Parallax is a full everyday video player, not just a VR viewer. It plays the files QuickTime won't open, like MKV, AVI, WMV, FLV, WebM and MPEG-2, including DTS, AC3 and TrueHD sound, and you can make it your default video player.
I already use VLC. Will I miss anything?
Probably not. The tools people rely on are all here: keyboard shortcuts you can customize, subtitle and audio sync, volume boost, A-B loop, speed control, frame step, snapshots, picture adjustments, picture-in-picture, media keys and chapters. It just looks and feels like a Mac app, and it plays VR and 360° video too.
Does it do subtitles?
Yes. Pick from the subtitle and audio tracks built into a file, and a matching .srt file sitting next to the video loads on its own.
Does it work with Insta360 and GoPro files?
Yes. Insta360 .insv files play straight from the camera, as do exported Insta360 Studio and GoPro Player videos. Raw GoPro MAX .360 files aren't supported yet, so export those from GoPro Player first.
Is there anything it can't play?
Copy-protected videos, like movies bought in the Apple TV app, only play in Apple's own apps. That's true for every third-party player, Parallax included.
Is it a subscription?
No. You pay $7.99 once and get every feature and all future updates. No add-ons, no tiers.
What if a video looks wrong?
Pick the right format in the settings once. Parallax remembers it for that file from then on.