Subj : YouTube can stream 8K videos to your Meta Quest 3 even though i To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Wed Apr 17 2024 19:15:05 YouTube can stream 8K videos to your Meta Quest 3 even though its displays arent 8K Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:10:29 +0000 Description: YouTube VR can now stream 8K content to Meta Quest 3 hardware, and it's a big boost for 3D videos. FULL STORY ====================================================================== Following news that Metas Quest 3 s getting some big mixed reality upgrades including an AI that can recognize furniture and improved passthrough quality , theres yet another improvement on the way this time for one of my favorite Quest apps: YouTube. Thats because the VR version of the video-sharing platform now supports 8K video playback on Quest 3 up from the previous max of 4K. To turn it on make sure youre running YouTube VR app version 1.54 or later, then boot up a video that supports 8K, tap on the gear icon, and where it says Quality you want to change the resolution to 4320p or 4320p60 if you want 8K at 60fps instead of the usual 30fps. If 4320p isnt an option in this list unfortunately the video you want to watch isnt streaming in 8K. There are a few extra caveats. First, youll want a strong internet connection, because even if the video supports 8K playback youll struggle to stream it over weak WiFi unless you like waiting for it to buffer. Oh, and one other important detail; the Quest 3 doesnt have 8K displays. But that's not as big a problem as it might seem. Method in the 8K madness The Quest 3 has two displays (one for each eye) that boast 2,064 x 2,208 pixels each; 8K resolution is 7,680 4,320 pixels. Even if we combine the two displays they still boast only just over 25% as many pixels as an 8K display. So is 8K streaming pointless? Well, not entirely. Spatial video is 3D, but not as immersive as 360 video (Image credit: Meta) For flat YouTube videos, playing them in 8K probably is worthless on Quest hardware. The only advantage you might find is that youll be seeing a downscaled video the opposite of upscaled, where a higher resolution source is played at a lower resolution which can sometimes lead to a more detailed image than simply streaming a video at the lower resolution. The real improvement can be found instead with immersive 360-degree videos. To explain things simply: when you see a flat video you see the whole resolution in that 16:9 frame. In 360 videos the resolution is spread across a much larger image, and you only see portions of that image based on where youre looking. Thats why if youve watched 360 videos in VR 4K content can look more like HD, and HD content can look like blurry messes. By bumping things up to 8K youll find that immersive 3D video should look a lot more crisp as the sections youre looking at are now effectively 4K. So while you're not seeing 8K, you're still getting a higher resolution. This update may also be a good future-proofing update for the next Meta hardware. With rumors that a Meta Quest Pro 2 could up the display game for Quest hardware, theres a chance that it'll get closer to having actual 8K displays, though well have to wait and see. You might also like Metas recent Quest 3 update includes a secret AI upgrade for mixed reality We may have our first look at the more affordable Meta Quest 3 Lite I spent a month working out in VR with my Meta Quest 3 ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality/youtube- can-stream-8k-videos-to-your-meta-quest-3-even-though-its-displays-arent-8k --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .