Thursday 21 January 2016
Facebook has a huge focus on video these days, encouraging everyone to upload more video and rewarding them in kind with wider views, engagement and shares. It’s also focused on making video better, especially in the realm of virtual reality, where file sizes can get big and scary, fast. To optimize 360-degree and VR video, Facebook has changed the layout of its videos from equirectangular to a cube map. Facebook says it transforms “the top 25 percent of the video to one cube face and the bottom 25 percent to another, dividing the middle 50 percent into the four remaining cube…
This story continues at The Next Web
