Talk:360-degree video

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VR
Immersive video is the same thing as VR.70.211.139.249 (talk) 02:20, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I beg to differ. Compare it with movies: is animation the same as live-action? VR is usually referring to computer-generated content. Zuckerberg (talk) 11:51, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
 * For the record, "VR" refers to virtual reality. Spherical vids are often used in combination with VR, but as Zuckerburg said, computer-generated content can also be used for VR. Spherical videos or 350-degree videos are a separate type of technology that is frequently used with VR, but it doesn't have to be. ~ Mable ( chat ) 10:27, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * It is clear that there are important differences between 360-degree video and interactive VR, but it is less clear whether both can be referred to as VR. Recent articles that have argued this distinction (Will Smith in Wired https://www.wired.com/2015/11/360-video-isnt-virtual-reality/ and Brenda Laurel on Medium https://medium.com/@blaurel/what-is-virtual-reality-77b876d829ba are clearly responding to a massive widespread use of the term VR to describe 360-degree video and other less fully immersive and interactive experiences - such as the Wikipedia Virtual Reality article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality. So should this article follow the purist approach, and say that 360-degree video is not VR? Or should it follow popular usage? Thousandsofcolors (talk) 12:47, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Inaccuracy of the term "360-degree video"
I feel like this should be mentioned somehow in the article, but I don't know how or where to bring it up. The correct measurement is of solid angle, not angle. 360 degrees of 2D angle don't mean anything in the spherical context of these videos - a more accurate (though far less catchy) term would be 4π steradians.

To be clear, I don't want to rename this article or how these videos are called. I just think this terminology should be explained.

--NeatNit (talk) 20:02, 14 June 2018 (UTC)