That may sound obvious, but it is one of the most important lessons the volumetric video industry has had to learn over the last decade. A new medium is not established by the capture stage alone. It is not established by the renderer alone. It is not established by the compression format, the playback device, or the demo.

The goal of this series is simple: share what we have learned from 10 years of inventing, testing, breaking, rebuilding, and validating volumetric systems so others can move faster, avoid repeated mistakes, and help build a stronger ecosystem.