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)
I think it is the case of a new technology leapfrogging the current one. It will have to catch up! Give it 5 years, new compression algorithms and methods of video playback are in the works.
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Not exactly on topic, but I would like this to be a standard:
- 90fps or 96fp for low persistence, of course in stereoscopic 3D - no algorythms ruining the image in motion to improve the quality of still frames
Of course the resolution and FOV should be maxed out, if possible. This won't happen in the next 5 years, I'm afraid, but could happen eventually.
Not an Oculus hater, but not a fan anymore.
Still lots of respect for the team-Carmack, Abrash.
Oculus is driven by big corporation principles now. That brings painful effects already, more to come in the future. This is not the Oculus I once cheered for.
You might be right. Movies might not require as low latency and I don't know how big of an improvement it would be to interpolate from 45-60 to 90fps, since I'm used to use interpolation from 24 when I watch movies. Hard to guess what motion speed is the limit for let say 45fps. About space/time warp techniques, I don't know if it's possible to use them while maintaining 100% clarity of image in motion. If it can be done - then sure, why not.
About H265. I wasn't talking about anything particular. But such an unfortunate idea might become a standard in the future, everything can happen, so I added that.
Not an Oculus hater, but not a fan anymore.
Still lots of respect for the team-Carmack, Abrash.
Oculus is driven by big corporation principles now. That brings painful effects already, more to come in the future. This is not the Oculus I once cheered for.
Jesus. What GPU do you have? There are a few H264/H265 encoders around that use the GPU to do the number-crunching. I had some successful tests in GPU assisted encoding 1080p Video with a G1080 with a 40% time reduction in an encode when compared to the i7 alone
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It's the transfer of the data between NAS and PC and back over the network that's going to be the real killer, unless I just do it from the blu-rays again, then it's just a single transfer to NAS.. Still so painful
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Keep in mind that you can't see everything of a 180 degree video at the same time, since the fov of the headset is 110, so you're basically "zooming in" on the video as well which demands even higher resolution. And 10+ pixels per degree would be for a 2D video, a 3D video in just 180 degrees would have to be in 4K quality or better.
