VR Industry Forum releases draft production and distribution guidelines
By Phil Lelyveld
The Virtual Reality Industry Forum (www.vr-if.org) has released their draft VR and 360 video production and distribution guidelines at IBC. Their membership includes Sony, MovieLabs, Dolby, Technicolor, Nagra, Verizon, and DTS.
The draft document begins with an intro section suggesting best practices for VR/360 production, including experiences with three degrees of freedom (3DOF). It then moves on to make specific recommendations for the technical aspects of visual and audio VR/360 content production, media and presentation profiles, and content security.
Other standardization efforts related to VR and immersive experiences include Khronos’ VR Standard Initiative (www.khronos.org), the IEEE Digital Senses Initiative (https://digitalsenses.ieee.org), SMPTE, and the Industry of VR Alliance’s effort (www.ivra.com)
The VRIF are seeking feedback on the draft at both their website and on GitHub by October 31, 2017. They hope to release the final document at CES 2018.
View and download the VRIF’s draft standards here: http://www.vr-if.org/wp-content/uploads/VRIF_Draft_Guidelines-v0.0draft10-2017-09-12.pdf
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