dcerisano wrote:Would only dare to post this to the Render Cloud.
The Carmack long cubic (stereo cubemap) format can be used as a single frame of a 360 3D video.
Has anyone tried rendering a few seconds of frames (maybe 100 or so - like a flyby camera loop)?
The amount of detail would be mind blowing - and easily nauseating if not done exactly right)
The "live" stereo spheremap videos are not yet even close to rendered stereo cubemap resolutions possible ...
We have rendered 5 seconds, both at 60 hz and 120 hz at full 18K, with alpha even. The ORBX media player app can cache the frames memory and play them back at full speed, even with compositing of the env map background and shadow catcher. It's pretty amazing for short clips or things like daylight animation
The PC/PS4 version should be able to stream from HD for much longer length movie you in this format. We are supporting 120 hz for the Morpheus HMD specifically. which we can drive directly at that speed.
We will add support on ORC for encoding and packaging 18K stereo cube map movies into an ORBX media file after render. You will need the 2.0 ORBX media player to play this back.