Oculus Quest highest video resolution??

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Oculus Quest highest video resolution??

m4ko

@Yum - I tested the "watch this video in 6k with viewport" with the SLR app. It streams "viewport optimized" videos in "6k". The result is very disappointing. It is LESS sharp than the 4k stream of the same video. I am not sure why.

Does your implementation have the same problem? Or does it actually look better than 4k of the same video?

Yum

m4ko
Well an easier solution is simply downsample the video to make it playable on Quest.
Our solution is way more complicated than that...

devonsmith

@m4ko - just curious - didn't see higher resolution playback on the roadmap. Is this still planned to be released in beta soon?

Yum

devonsmith

Sorry it's been a while since we last edited the roadmap.
I will update it today.
We will release a new beta on Go/Gear/Quest very soon but this version will not include the support for higher resolution playback (we are still working on it though with an ETA of end of September).

Bercut

any news about higher resolution playback?

Yum

Bercut thedude1980

Still working on it right now...
The actual display is not as good as we want it to be so we are still in the process of optimization.
Current ETA would be the end of October or early of November.

Best,
Yum

thedude1980

Any update?

cmaniac

Yum Hi yum, i have tried many 5400x2700 on the Quest and none of them ever played smooth for me. Is there anything you can recommend me to do? like disable/enable certain settings in Skybox or in the Quest? i'm still hoping every day for the new feature that will support higher resolutions than 2160p, but i would be already completely satisfied with 2700p, so any tips would be really appreciated

Yum

You may wanna try h264 with lower frame rate (30 fps should be alright) and bit rate (below 40mb/s) on 5400x2700 videos. It looks pretty smoothy for us.

devonsmith

h265 material maxes out around 4k.

Yum

devonsmith Thanks for this feedback.

roedi007

Hi. Sorry for the dumb question ... but is there any advantage in playing 5K videos on Oculus Quest in comparison to 4K videos or 3K?

Because the resolution of the Oculus Quest is 1600x1440 which means 3200x1440 for both eyes. And in my opinion I don't see a difference between 3200x1440 and 3840x1920 videos. I really don't. Maybe its my eyes ;-)
Where You see a difference ist when the video has a bad compression and You see artefacts. But a good video with 3200x1440 seems to be sufficient for me - because the Hardware cannot show more pixels and 5K only needs more CPU/GPU power for playing&rescaling.

Or is it just so You don't need to convert 5K/6K/8K videos for playing native on an Oculus Quest or whatelse?

Thanks and Merry Christmas

eta

It's your eyes.

The total video resolution is wrapped around your head either in 180 or 360 degrees. What you view in your line-of-sight is essentially only a part of the whole video (cropped or zoomed in if you will), which effectively has a lower visible resolution than the total resolution of the video.

If you had a 4k or 5k video source, that visible portion can then reach closer to the full resolution of the display. As for 4k vs. 5k, I wouldn't know, but there is a clear difference between 3.2k and 4k.

vrtraveller

Are you guys still working on optimizing the quest for 5k and up videos? anything higher than 4k and i am getting very bad stuttering, and this is with all quest video players. would be great if was fixed in skybox
thanks

Bercut

any news about 5k-6k playback on oculus go? i would like to see 5400x2700 HEVC h265 playback on oculus go

Yum

Bercut jumpy egovr vrtraveller

We are settling on a planning release date of March 1st on Quest and Gear.
This is a hard project and our engineers are working hard on it for about a year now.
Just need to finish it up and polish the audio output now.
Thank you all being very patience with us.

jumpy

Second that. Any news? It keeps getting extended and its now Q1 2020

egovr

dont think this is coming folks

vrtraveller

egovr
this is sad, and doesnt make sense. dont understand how come my gear vr with s7, which is older tech than the quest, is able to properly decode 5k video and give smooth playback and the quest cant.

Bercut

Yum
Hmm.. What about Go?

vrtraveller

Yum great news, thanks!!

Yum

Bercut

Not sure Go could handle the solution without overheating too soon.

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