Quest 2 resolution

leok

Do you have any plans to improve the resolution videos are streamed from computer to the Quest 2 headset? As far as I can work out, it maxes out at 4K at the moment despite the headset being capable of 8K.

(Firefox VR in theory can play 8K by streaming from YouTube - but stutters to a halt in practice. Otherwise only way appears to be to load the videos directly to the headset rather than stream)

Even if 8K isn't practical, would still be good to go up to 5.6K to match resolution of the GoPro Max and other 360 cams.

Thanks

Jenny

Hi leok, we actually support max 8192x6144 30fps video using Oculus Quest 2 at the moment. We have updated the info in our official website: https://skybox.xyz/en/. The max resolution is closely related to the VR devices you use. If you're using Oculus Quest 2 and Rift (with high performance graphics card) you can watch 8K+ contents on your devices without problems. Please let me know if the playback is not as ideal as expected and we'll try to figure out the problem! Cheers!

joel7

I'm just upscaling my 360-3D-video collection with Topaz Video AI and unfortunately with my Quest 2:

8192x4320 (slightly over 35 million pixels) is the highest resolution I was able to play back with HEVC (encoded with nvEnc), but I would like to achieve more.
Interestingly, choosing any other resolution, like 6000x5800, I have to stay under 35 million pixels for the playback to work, 5940x5940 doesn't work, even though it has less pixels than 8192x4320.
8192x6144 is possible with H264, but no HW encoder is able to encode that resolution in that format, and x264 takes ages, also the video stutters when playing it back, even though it is crisper of course.
Based on my calculations, the screen of the Quest 2 could be fully uitilzed by 8192x6144 or slightly more, so that would be awesome.

Is there any other limitation in HEVC I don't know about? Does the maximum resolution have to do wih some encoding parameters?