I installed the last VLC version (3.0.0 (Vetinari) on Windows 7 64 bits) which supports 360 video playback.
In order to do some tests I downloaded the following 360 video from Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/215984568
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). The result is the following:
I think that maybe the video could be reencoded with ffmpeg to be more VLC friendly.
The media info of the downloaded 360 video is this: