Volumetric Experience?

jbidler

Can see this is advertised as coming soon on the home page.

Any ideas when we can expect it and anyone experienced it outside of SLR?

sogman

jbidler Im super excited about volumetric! I dont even care if its dogshit quality at first; Its such awesome tech that it cannot really be compared to 8k SBS content we have now.

doublevr

Where do you see it?
Not immediate plans. Hopefully February or later on next year

The good thing - technology is progressing fast

jbidler

doublevr Listed as the seventh feature on home/sign up page (you probably won't see it if you're logged in).

harigeharry

sogman Well I was excited at first too. But when I saw the current state of the tech it was a bit of a bummer, nowhere near the quality of a simple 3d SBS video. And also the usecase where it really shines is nonPov video, where you can walk around the action, but VR is really made for PoV imho, so if you think about that, it's not THE big breakthrough in immersive experience that most think it will be.

I think 16k vids will be a bigger breakthrough. There's a demo on the AVP of a band playing some music in 16k and daaamn that's just as real as VR can be, it really feels like they're there in front of you. So personally I think that will do more for immersion than volumetric, which mostly is a bit of a gimmick imho. Sure, it will add something, even for Pov, since you can bend in/out for example and AR/real world overlap/masking can be done better, so I'm not saying its worthless. But I am saying that will take quite a while before that quality is up to the current quality and only then it will start to get interesting.

sogman

harigeharry I mean current state of anything that just starting is going to be low. You have to have a bit of patience as it grows. Remember, this SBS VR stuff took like 30 years to get off the ground: I rmeember a nintendo red screen thing from the 90's had like 1 medeocure game, mario tennis. Forgot what the headset was called, but it was trash. Nausea, headaches, one color. Now look at your apple vision pro with hand and eye tracking, 16k, iris tracking, etc. $350 standalone vr headsets like he quest 3. Gotta pay in to fund the tech, right now there are too many people shooting it down and its still in 'flip phone' phase.

Im not looking for anything to replace SBS. I dont think anyone is. I like having a different interface; from flat mode on my computer screen, to simple vr SBS, to Gaussian-Splatting. Its in its infancy, yeah, but if there is a market then the tech will improve, like anything else. First it needs more traction and a viewer base. Also dont forget, you can also overlay volumetric on top of a current sex toy/doll. Can be a lot of interesting things you can do with it