Thursday, May 11th 2017

Valve and Pixvana bring Quality VR Video Content to Steam

Pixvana, makers of the cloud-based 360 video creation studio SPIN, today announced a partnership with Valve to integrate their software services into the greater Steam platform. A beta version of the SPIN software will now let users directly publish 360 video content directly to the Steam Store, which will allow Steam VR enabled headset users to browse a new huge library of high quality (up to 12k according to Pixvana) 360-degree video content.
This comes hot on the heels of Oculus shutting down its own VR-driven content studio, so this is surely good news for VR-advocates in the face of what appeared to be a weakening market.

What do you think? Is Virtual Reality still a dead/dying technology, or is it very much alive? Useful in select instances? Let us know your opinion in the comments below.
Source: roadtovr.com
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7 Comments on Valve and Pixvana bring Quality VR Video Content to Steam

#1
xkm1948
Thank you froggy!

I just watched this in SteamVR 360 last night



That was some top notch VR video I have watched. Really scary.

The Lego batman VR is pretty awesome as well. And best of all most of the contents are completely free.
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R-T-B
The way they do the "12K" content is fairly interesting as well, they basically just render what you're looking at and skip the rest.

Simple, but elegant.
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xkm1948
R-T-BThe way they do the "12K" content is fairly interesting as well, they basically just render what you're looking at and skip the rest.

Simple, but elegant.
I suspected it was streaming. As the experience was perfect at work(1Gbps) but not so much at home(20Mbps)
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R-T-B
xkm1948I suspected it was streaming. As the experience was perfect at work(1Gbps) but not so much at home(20Mbps)
Yep streaming. Pretty decent way to do it but absolutely streaming.
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#5
theeldest
What do you think? Is Virtual Reality still a dead/dying technology, or is it very much alive?
I'm waiting for computex. If no new headsets are announced, I'm diving in.
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xkm1948
R-T-BYep streaming. Pretty decent way to do it but absolutely streaming.
Since it is VR streaming, I can already see some "naughty" use for it.
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R-T-B
xkm1948Since it is VR streaming, I can already see some "naughty" use for it.
lol you would.
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