XR video

1. it depends on your budget. if you have $5k to burn then the canon 180 vr setup is prob one of the best on the market right now: https://www.usa.canon.com/shop/p/vr-content-creator-kit?color=Black&type=Kit. note that this is a all-purpose mirrorless camera with a lens designed for 180 vr capture. there's also the kandao vr cam at $4k: https://us.kan

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The issue is delivery, not content or capture. There’s a lot of raw footage roughly of this quality, it’s just been impossible to get to consumers without arduous download times or distracting compression artifacts. For reference, these videos are encoded at 250 Mbps which is not streamable, whereas Apple Immersive videos are 50 Mbps.

spatial, on the other hand, is much easier to do bc the field of view is more limited. so you can use "traditional" iphone-quality lenses and sensors. i'd say the spatial video captured on an iphone 15 pro max is of a higher quality than the $5k canon vr setup in terms of color accuracy. but it's also worth noting that apple's version of spatial... See more

Canon's Yasuhiko Shiomi believes this would require a camera capable of a "100-megapixel resolution at 60 frames per second." It's the refresh rate that is currently complex to get to in combination with a resolution that high. It would amount to 14K video, a 3.5 times improvement over the current 4K standard.