VRS Converter

Extract text from VR scene files (VRS)


Drop or upload your .VRS file

How to extract text from your VRS file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VRS file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert VRS to another file type

To convert VRS VR scenes to another format, you need Project Aria Tools or other Data software.

Convert a file to VRS

To convert other file formats to the "Sensor Stream Container" file type, you need software like Project Aria Tools or a similar tool.


About VRS files

The .vrs extension typically identifies a Vision Recording System file, a high-performance container format developed by Meta for its Project Aria glasses. These files aggregate synchronized streams of data, including video, audio, eye-tracking, and IMU (inertial measurement unit) sensor readings. While powerful for research, the format is practically useless for general playback; you cannot simply double-click a .vrs file in a standard media player like VLC. The files are often massive, proprietary, and require the specific Project Aria Tools SDK or CLI commands just to visualize the contents. Users frequently need to convert these sensor streams into accessible formats: MP4 for the video components, WAV for audio, or CSV for the trajectory and accelerometer data.

Another common variation is the Virtual Reality Scene file generated by visualization software like Coohom or Enscape. In this context, the file serves as a panoramic render or scene definition used for client walkthroughs. The friction here is platform lock-in - clients without the specific viewer software cannot see the design. For these users, converting the VR scene to a standard 360-degree JPG or a web-ready format is essential for sharing. Less frequently, .vrs files appear as metadata resources for the VitalSource Bookshelf e-reader; these are strictly system files containing digital rights or page mapping data and hold no convertable text content for the user.

Convert.Guru analyzes your VRS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted DVM, FOF and MVD files.


FAQ

If you want to convert VRS file to MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP, OGV, ASF or RM, you can use Project Aria Tools or similar software from the "XR Sensor Data Recording" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MTS, MOV, RMVB, DIVX, RM, H264, TS, WMV, VOB, MP4, XVID or AVI files to VRS, try Project Aria Tools or another comparable tool in the "XR Sensor Data Recording" category.



The VRS Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our VRS converter.