The world's first 360-degree 8K video has hit YouTube

Am i the only one who can't actually see the point of the 360 view? I mean, it just feels uncomfortable to look at. Outside of fitting more images into less screens for security monitoring but hopefully with a camera/software that can zoom in on a specific area to get a better view I see entirely no need for such a view of anything.

I mean if say someone is skiing does a massive jump the 360 view might be useful in terms of capturing everything when doing it in one go. I'd still prefer to watch a video where someone edits the best views into a 'normal' view that is easier and more comfortable to watch. Even if you watch the jump 3-4 times and show it from different angle each time to use the entire video. Watching it in 360 is just pointless.
 
It doesn't really show off the splendour of fine details tbh. Those Sony 4K Youtube demos and whatnot seem way more impressive sitting back and enjoying the view. This is just mostly black...
 
Hmm some weird playback issues for me - its buffering fine but every now and again suddenly drops all the buffered data and rebuffers even though it has the next 30+ seconds already buffered :|
 
I've got an overclocked Haswell i7, 16gb ram and a 152mb connection and it's still very stuttery. Time for an upgrade ;)

If it's anything like the 8k 120fps (I think) I tried to play last week you'll need to do a lot better. It stuffed terribly on a dual Xeon, 48GB with dedicated line...

TBH I think it was the mid range 3 year old Quattro that was the problem!:p

Edit: works fine on my iPhone 6, now is that entirely due to hardware decoding or just that the player isn't feeding 8k to the phone... ? Takes a while to buffer and freezes the phone when I pressed play and stop though!
 
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