I have never seen a 360° video in VR that had a quality compared to something I'd watch on a 2D monitor. I find that all the hype about VR videos that "take you somewhere else" are misleading, because all I see are pixels and low resolution.
I don't blame this on the HMD, but on the video quality. I took a 360 3D screenshot in Mirror's Edge and it had to be in freaking 8K resolution to look crisp. Now imagine a 8K 90fps video ... that'd fill up your hard drive pretty quick.
This is just my opinion though, and I don't know how to solve the problem except compromising. So my question is, what format do you prefer your videos to be? (taking into consideration the bigger file size, or lower quality of 360°/3D videos)
@Rifts yeah 3D would have to be double the resolution in total, so 10 pixels per degree would be per eye. For 3D blu-ray disc they usually describe video resolution as what one eye sees, unless I'm mistaken. So a 4k 3D video is actually 4096 horizontally per eye. So anyway, if it's a 180 deg 3D video, it should be minimum 3600 total, 1800 per eye, and you can see 1080 pixels per eye at any given time with a CV1. I certainly would like higher res videos, this is just a minimum.
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we need a camera revolution.... codecs and players support it mostly already
yeah daftn, i usually divide the 360 by four and see what resolution I will see in VR... that sort of gives a baseline.... hard to find hi res 360 video tho there are only a few experiments
I think one big issue is STREAMING and bandwith, fine for offline content but people these days want instant watch.
Perhaps a variant of variable quality streaming but in a 3d space perhaps could be the answer, dividing the "Spherical scene" into a grid of small areas that increase the quality dynamically as you are looking at them, so content behind you is streamed in a lower quality until you look at it to save bandwith.... just a thought....
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I'd really like to try out the latest cameras.. my next holiday video I want to be 360. Nikon's 4k 360 is out around now isn't it? the trouble is they're being developed so fast, anything you buy will be obsolete in 6 months... or at least a lot cheaper!
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