There ’s no denying that 360 video iscool , but the file cabinet demand are large and can really bog down down if you ’re see them online . Now , Facebook has produce a agency to compress the videos by as much as 80 pct without any release in caliber .
That might sound incredible , but it ’s just the sassy app of a little math . In a video published on Facebook , software engineer David Pio explains that the novel technique thinks about the TV as a block or pyramid rather than a sphere .
While VR besiege the user with a spherical humans shown from one spot , it can be well - make up on a covert by stretching the footage out onto a three-dimensional or pyramidal frame , as shown in the gif above . In fact what Facebook does is make a serial publication of unlike videos ground on different viewpoints — essentially subtly unlike sides of the cube — all of which are stack away on its server . It then streams one 2nd segments of video , depending on the orientation of the survey .
That process is exact to make the video that ’s mail down the pipes to your gimmick up to 80 percentage small , “ without sacrifice calibre or resolution . ” You ’ll probably still require wi - fi , though .
[ FacebookviaPopular Science ]
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