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What if your car worked like so many apps?

As more of you experiment with immersive and spatial video, one of the most common questions I get is: how can I encode my own stereoscopic video to MV-HEVC?

Have you ever wondered if what you see in “real life” truly represents the reality of our physical universe?

If you’ve read my first post about Spatial Video, the second about Encoding Spatial Video, or if you’ve used my command-line tool, you may recall a mention of Apple’s mysterious “fisheye” projection format.

As I mentioned in my prior post about Spatial Video, the launch of the Apple Vision Pro has reignited interest in spatial and immersive video formats, and it’s exciting to hear from users who are experiencing this format for the first time.

One month ago, Apple released the Vision Pro, and with it, the ability to record and playback spatial (and immersive) video.

Over the past year, I’ve found myself in an unexpected and relentless battle, not in the digital arenas of Call of Duty, but against an unseen, unyielding opponent: a false permanent ban.

Activision’s blind faith in the infallibility of their RICOCHET anti-cheat software, combined with a buggy and unstable Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II release, has resulted in faulty, permanent, and unappealable player account bans that prevent users from

This past April, 2021, Comcast/Xfinity Seattle increased the speed of its top-tier internet service from 1Gbps to 1.2Gbps.

I’ve updated all three of my plug-ins to support Adobe Illustrator 2021 (25.x).