By Virtual reality photography faces a critical bottleneck: 360-degree images and videos generate massive file sizes that strain bandwidth, slow loading times, and compromise the immersive experience viewers expect. A single high-quality 8K stereoscopic 360 image can exceed 50MB, making real-time streaming nearly impossible and frustrating users with buffering delays. Foveated Progressive Encoding (FPE) solves this problem by matching how human vision actually works in VR headsets.
FPE dramatically reduces file sizes by encoding different regions of a 360 image at varying quality levels. The center of your field of view receives full …
