02-25-202412:54 AM - last edited on 02-27-202411:45 AM by ShiroTenko
Couldn't find the answer on the internet for some reason. All I could find is how to download them or some shallow thing about how they are two images for each eye.
I used to hate VR videos because I had been watching the improperly. Not sure what it's called, but it was essentially just a projection of the video in a sphere around you, so things up close would look massive and it was overall just terrible. Then I learned you needed a dedicated VR Player, and the result was much better. It really felt like I was there.
But how does this work? In a game, things feel real because when you move your head around, there's parallax from which you gather a sense of depth, but in a prerecorded video, the video player has no idea, right? When I was moving my head around in the VR Player I obviously couldn't see any noticeable parallax, but the VR Player almost "simulated it" well enough to where it felt real. Does it have depth data or just use some sort of algorithm?