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YouTube's revealed the secret to making an engaging virtual reality video: put the best parts right in front of the audience so they don't have to move their heads.
Google's video vault offers that advice on the basis of heat maps it's created based on analysis of where VR viewers point their heads while wearing VR goggles. There's just such a heat map at the top of this story (or here for m.reg readers) and a bigger one here.
The many heat maps YouTube has made lead it to suggest that VR video creators "Focus on what's in front of you: The defining feature of a 360-degree video is that it allows you to freely look around in any direction, but surprisingly, people spent 75% of their time within the front 90 degrees of a video. So don't forget to spend significant time on what's in front of the viewer."
YouTube also advises that "for many of the most popular VR videos, people viewed more of the full 360-degree space with almost 20% of views actually being behind them." Which sounds to El Reg like VR viewers are either staring straight ahead, or looking over their shoulders with very little time being devoted to sideways glances.
A video channel wants people to treat VR like video. Hmmm. Perhaps the answer to their question is in the question: people should be considered "participants" instead of an "audience."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:01PM (5 children)
i'm not going to comment since it will be considered off-topic and be deleted anyways ...
nevermind that "occulus app" and "daydream app" are artificially incompatible.
a +100 $$$ headset that can't (or won't) run apps that run on a literally cardboard made headset.
nevermind that the "daydream" apps have a mega-huge server farm with gazillion HDDs w/ data (read: google) for the
VR to look into.
note: bonus points if you can get "streetview 360" to run on a samsung gear VR headset ... nasty stuff.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @05:09PM (3 children)
Seriously. Give up computing; it's a total waste of time, especially now that computers don't really exist anymore—everything is just a "device" now.
You don't need these things in your life, and you'll feel so much better when you start spending your time with aspects of being alive which do not require you to mold yourself to some other person's view of the way things should be; computers suck because people suck, so drop them like you would a toxic relationship.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @06:01PM
Socializing is for winners and I'm a loser so I'll just stay in the basement with a big pile of books. Can't ever have a toxic relationship with a book. Except those books that are printed on glossy lead based paper. Those books are toxic so I don't have any of those books.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @08:40PM (1 child)
Nah, we're just in the painful inbetween stage. Once we get privacy clawed back from the corporations (or at least popular non-central alternatives) then we can get back to human value with computing.
It is funny, you say go out into the world cause people suck... so what is the difference between hiking alone away from people (or whatever you're in to) and playing a single player game? Reading a book? Etc.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @08:56PM
Try again.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 19 2017, @08:02PM
Comments don't get deleted and you made a comment anyway. Fix your head.
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