Overview: Stereoscopic and spatial video

Stereoscopic and spatial video carry related views that must be reconstructed and presented in the intended viewing arrangement.

Depth-oriented video needs more than one ordinary flat picture. The stored views and their arrangement determine what a compatible decoder and display have to produce. This area connects that viewing model to frame packing, multiview coding and spatial-video representations.

• How stereoscopic video works
  Stereoscopic video presents related views to the left and right eyes so their differences supply a binocular depth cue.

• Frame packing layouts
  Frame-packing layouts arrange left and right views so a receiving system can separate and present them.

• Multiview Video Coding (MVC)
  MVC extends H.264/AVC to encode related camera views with temporal and inter-view prediction while retaining an AVC-compatible base view.

• MV-HEVC and spatial video
  MV-HEVC represents related views in HEVC layers, while a spatial video profile adds the geometry and presentation information needed to interpret a stereo pair.