As far as I can tell, this has happened with multiple videos from multiple different sources. 360° Photos.

The technical preview also lets you view and pan around a 360° photo. Playback of youtube 360 degrees video in VLC 3 ? Just locate it and install the application like you would install any other program; 2. The media info of the downloaded 360 video is this:

To play 360-degree videos in VLC, you need to download VLC 360 on your PC. ... On OSX I can no longer drag the screen around with the mouse in window mode. Simply open the video in the VLC 360° Technical Preview and you will be able to pan around by clicking and dragging your mouse over the video.

As far as I can tell, this has happened with multiple videos from multiple different sources. Once installed, you’ll get VLC media player with the version number 3.0.0-git Vetinary. The latest announcement from the newsroom of the people who dedicated their time to create the most amazing video player app says that. In the … The feature will also be available for other platforms such as Android, iOS and Xbox One. 3. VLC Media Player becomes the first mainstream media player to support 360-degree videos and photos out of the box.

... On OSX I can no longer drag the screen around with the mouse in window mode. Popular open-source application VLC media player is now ahead to support 360-degree videos and photos, the company announced.So, from now on you will be able to play the spherical video formats in your Windows and Mac computers. ... After that, the only way out is by force quitting VLC. An installer file will be saved to your PC.

But VLC is unable to play the 360 video correctly; the video contains all the 360 degree video information but it's showed at the same time (on Vimeo the video plays OK).

360° mp4 presented as 2D, instead of 360 ... After that, the only way out is by force quitting VLC. To view the photo, hit Ctrl+O. The result is the following: I think that maybe the video could be reencoded with ffmpeg to be more VLC friendly.