Immersive media experience with MPEG OMAF multi-viewpoints and overlays
Kashyap Kammachi Sreedhar, Igor D. D. Curcio, Ari Hourunranta, Mikael Lepistö · 2020
The second edition of the Omnidirectional MediA Format (OMAF) standard developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) defines two major features: overlays and multi-viewpoints. Overlays help in enhancing the immersive experience by providing additional information about the omnidirectional background video content. The multi-viewpoint feature enables the content to be captured/experienced from multiple spatial locations. These two powerful features along with interactivity, dispense the content provider with new possibilities of storytelling (for example, non-linear) using immersive media.