Hyper360 -- a Next Generation Toolset for Immersive Media
This addresses a gap in immersive media production for creators, but appears incremental as it builds on existing formats.
The Hyper360 project tackled the lack of tools for producing interactive 360° video by developing a toolset for mixed 360° video and 3D content, and presented pilots with audience assessment results.
Spherical 360° video is a novel media format, rapidly becoming adopted in media production and consumption of immersive media. Due to its novelty, there is a lack of tools for producing highly engaging interactive 360° video for consumption on a multitude of platforms. In this work, we describe the work done so far in the Hyper360 project on tools for mixed 360° video and 3D content. Furthermore, the first pilots which have been produced with the Hyper360 tools and results of the audience assessment of the produced pilots are presented.