V-Nova has returned to action with IBC just a fortnight away (albeit on knife’s edge). The UK video compression vendor is laying claim to a world-first – not one related to LCEVC licensing milestones, nor direct developments with its Perseus technology, but for virtual reality. The company’s point-cloud compression software has apparently served up the world’s first six degrees of freedom (6DoF) photorealistic movie delivered in the PresenZ volumetric movie format. Both sides of this statement – point-cloud and PresenZ – are unfamiliar terms on the Faultline radar, so there is some explaining to do. It transpires that the point-cloud compression technology is actually built on the LCEVC MPEG-5 and SMPTE VC-6 standards developed by V-Nova, which is the first…