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You are mistaken in your last point. The Quest doesn’t play the Apple Immersive video formats, only their MV-HEVC stereo format.

Nobody has been able to extract Apples immersive videos yet and I’m not convinced the Quest has the decoding power for it.

It’s a lot of pixels to decode (16k at 90fps) , while also doing reprojection of the frames (https://hackaday.com/2024/04/18/unraveling-the-secrets-of-ap...) and I don’t believe their Qualcomm chip used has enough juice leftover to do that.



You're right. I was thinking of spatial video on the Quest. Immersive video is different, but I guess my point is that it's not mystery meat either. The barrier is as you said the performance required to push the pixels, not the format per se.




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