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Started by @nuts-rice in moq-dev/moq#6373; finished on top of their commits at the maintainer's request (their fork blocks maintainer edits, so this lands from a moq-dev branch). Their three linear commits from nuts-rice/moq:webxr_vr_demo keep their authorship.

Problem

The hang catalog's VR fields (moq-dev/moq#5543: video projection and stereo, audio layout: "ambisonic"), which moq-dev/moq#7308 fills on import, had no reader, so the feature review (moq-dev/moq#8764) proposed deleting them before the cut. The maintainer chose to keep them and give them a consumer and an end-to-end test.

Approach

• demo/vr (nuts-rice): a Three.js WebXR player. An equirectangular projection wraps the picture on a sphere spanning its fov, stereo crops each eye from a left-right or top-bottom frame, and an ambisonic layout decodes first-order AmbiX to HRTF virtual speakers that turn with the head. A HUD, recentre, and mute ride along. On top of their commits: it exposes window.vr for the console and the harness, and decodes higher orders at first order instead of refusing them.
• Dropped feat(demo): VR demo #6373's catalog plumbing, which feat(mux): fill the catalog's VR fields on import #7308 made redundant: moq_mux::catalog::Spatial, its producer and track hunks, the import --projection/--stereo/--audio-layout flags, and the pub on hang's check helpers. No CLI or catalog API is added.
• @moq/watch fix: the decoder and support probe dropped every Opus description, so Chromium refused any Opus past stereo ("description is required for multi-channel Opus"). They now pass the catalog's OpusHead, which the Rust importers republish for exactly this. Chromium then trims the header's pre-skip itself, again after every flush, so WebCodecs gets a copy with the pre-skip zeroed and the decoder's Terminal stays its one owner, gap resumes included.
• just test vr: ffmpeg encodes a 960x480 left-right H.264 plus 4-channel family 2 Opus MP4, test/vr/spherical.py appends st3d and a VR180 sv3d to its avc1 entry, and ffmpeg loops it as fMP4 into moq import fmp4 and a relay. The browser check (test/interop/clients/js/vr.ts) asserts the catalog the demo received, then the picture (left eye ahead, its quarter 45 degrees left, empty scene past the 180 degree edge) and the live sound field (louder in the left ear, centred once the head turns to face it).
• Runs nightly as the "VR catalog fields" step of interop.yml, beside the portrait harness; it adds nothing to the merge gate.
• Docs: a VR section in doc/bin/demo.md, an examples row, just vr serve, and the hang concept page names the demo as the reader.

Validation

• just test vr passes: vr: {"projection":{"kind":"equirectangular","fov":180},"stereo":"left-right","layout":"ambisonic","channels":4} laid out; ahead L 0.314 R 0.089, facing L 0.127 R 0.125.
• Negative controls fail where they should: publishing the MP4 without the injected boxes fails the catalog check ({"layout":"ambisonic","channels":4}); a demo that ignores fov fails at 45 degrees (got blue).
• Independent check of the fixture: ffprobe reads the injected boxes back as Stereo 3D: side by side and Spherical Mapping: tiled equirectangular, and ffmpeg rewrites the same st3d/sv3d bytes into the fragmented output.
• Chromium's own pre-skip trim, measured with AudioEncoder output: given the OpusHead (pre-skip 312), the first packet and the first after each flush() decode to 648 of 960 frames; with the zeroed copy, 960 each and 48960 in total, the same as with no description.
• just test media passes after the watch change (Opus tone, A/V skew, lifecycle), as does the new decoderDescription unit test.
• Before the watch fix, the demo's audio decoder reported NotSupportedError: Invalid config; description is required for multi-channel Opus. and the ears measured silence.
• just vr serve (vite dev) serves and transforms the demo; just check passes.
• Pullfrog's findings, fixed: Playwright's Firefox has no AudioListener.positionX/forwardX (only setPosition/setOrientation), so the demo now falls back to the setters instead of throwing out of its render loop; and only a signed OpusHead reaches WebCodecs, so a third-party dOps or unsigned header stays dropped as before. just test vr and just ci pass on the fixed head.
• Local runs need WAYLAND_DISPLAY hidden from Chromium (the script does it): ANGLE asks SwiftShader's Vulkan for a Wayland surface it lacks, leaving no WebGL.

Impact

• @moq/watch: Opus renditions with a description now hand it to WebCodecs, so surround and ambisonic Opus decode. Behavior only; no API change.
• New private workspace package @moq/demo-vr; nothing published.
• Wire: none.

Alternatives

• Deleting the fields before the cut (the feature review's recommendation), rejected by the maintainer.
• Keeping feat(demo): VR demo #6373's CLI flags to mark bare bitstreams as VR: the brief asked to ask before adding CLI API, and the importers already read the containers that carry the boxes, so the harness uses one.
• A checked-in binary fixture: generating it at run time keeps the boxes reviewable in spherical.py and lets ffprobe cross-check them.

Decisions

• ✅ Keep the VR catalog fields and finish moq-dev/moq#6373 as their consumer (maintainer, 2026-11-14; rejected: delete them before the cut, the feature review's recommendation in moq-dev/moq#8764). That PR's catalog-vr-fields quest is answered by this one.
• ✅ m1 (rejected: m2, which holds breaking work).
• ✅ No CLI or catalog API: the importers already fill the fields (rejected: feat(demo): VR demo #6373's import --projection/--stereo/--audio-layout flags).
• ✅ Merge this PR (maintainer pick, 2026-11-14). moq-dev/moq#8764 records "keep the fields; consumer is the VR demo" for its catalog-vr-fields quest.

Caused by

• moq-dev/moq#1359 - dropped every Opus description, meant for CMAF's dOps, on the legacy path too, so multichannel Opus never decoded in @moq/watch (found by check)

Follow-ups

• quest/m1/vr-demo-try.md [XS]: kept (maintainer, 2026-11-14). The maintainer tries the demo in a headset; ✅ once it plays well, host it at moq.dev with a looping VR180 broadcast (rejected: keep it local-only). Recorded in the quest's Plan.

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Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Head: 85d3d88

• Base: origin/main at c3682ea

• Risk: high, it changes .github/workflows/interop.yml, which is always high, as are 1 more of its paths: workflows run with the repository's secrets and decide what merges and ships

• Classified: high by the always-high paths

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, high effort

• Session: 01a1dcde-58d0-7ca1-b0b3-b946538db11e, round 2

• Score: 8/10, Static review of the incremental changes found no actionable defects; builds and tests were not run as instructed, and headset behavior remains unverified.

• Rounds: 2; first round 0; findings 0: fixed 0, refuted 0, open 0

• Findings: none

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds a WebXR and desktop VR demo for spatial video and audio. It adds Opus description processing for decoder configuration and support checks. It also adds a synthetic-media interop test that checks video layout and spatial audio, connects the test to the interop workflow, and documents the demo and its testing.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 85d3d

The VR demo and Opus description handling look sound, and no new blocking problems were found. Four small leftover items remain: an unknown stereo string can crash layout, the docs omit the first-order ambisonic limit, the test harness could break if build artifacts are cleaned mid-run, and the headset setup docs omit relay reachability. None blocks merge, but the owner should be aware of them.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: a VR demo that lays out the catalog's spatial fields (projection, stereo, ambisonic audio), with an end-to-end test. The raw summary and PR objectives both describe a …
Description check		The description explains the origin of the work, the problem being solved (VR catalog fields had no reader), the approach across demo/vr, the @moq/watch Opus description fix, and the test harness. It …
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

The title names the main change: a VR demo that lays out the catalog's spatial fields (projection, stereo, ambisonic audio), with an end-to-end test. The raw summary and PR objectives both describe a Three.js WebXR player that consumes these fields, plus the harness. The title is specific and matches the changeset.

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The description explains the origin of the work, the problem being solved (VR catalog fields had no reader), the approach across demo/vr, the @moq/watch Opus description fix, and the test harness. It also lists validation, impact, and follow-ups. It matches the changeset closely.

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Important

On Firefox, the demo's render loop stops once audio attaches: Spatial.pose() writes AudioListener params that Gecko doesn't implement. A smaller note on the @moq/watch Opus change is inline.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the full PR: the demo/vr WebXR player, the @moq/watch Opus description fix, and the just test vr harness with its CI wiring.

• demo/vr player: lays out an equirectangular sphere or flat screen from projection/fov, crops each eye by stereo on layers 1 and 2, and decodes first-order AmbiX to eight HRTF panners that turn with the head.
• @moq/watch Opus description: decoderDescription now hands the catalog's OpusHead to WebCodecs (and to the support probe) with pre-skip zeroed, so multichannel Opus decodes and Terminal stays the only thing trimming pre-skip.
• just test vr harness: ffmpeg builds a VR180 left-right H.264 + family 2 Opus MP4, spherical.py injects st3d/sv3d, and vr.ts checks the catalog, the per-eye picture at 0°/45°/120°, and the ear levels before and after turning.
• CI and docs: a nightly "VR catalog fields" step in interop.yml, release-gate.yml interop paths, just vr serve, and doc entries in demo.md, hang.md, and examples.md.

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Maintainer decision (relayed from the maintainer's pick round):

1. Merge this PR.
2. Keep quest/m1/vr-demo-try.md, and settle its choice: host the demo at moq.dev with a looping VR180 broadcast once it plays well in a headset (rejected: keep it local-only).
3. quest: first pass of the pre-cut feature review, and its follow-ups #8764's catalog-vr-fields quest records "keep the fields; consumer is the VR demo" in that PR.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the delta since the prior Pullfrog review: commit 85d3d88 and the earlier quest-doc commit.

• Firefox listener fallback: Spatial.pose() now uses setPosition/setOrientation when AudioListener has no positionX params, so the render loop no longer throws on Gecko.
• Signed OpusHead only: decoderDescription returns undefined for a dOps or unsigned header and zeroes pre-skip only on a signed OpusHead, with the unit test covering both and a truncated header that still throws.
• Quest note: recorded the maintainer's pick to host the VR demo.

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Review comments at @demo/vr/src/scene.ts:
- Line 157: Update the stereo validation in the scene setup to check whether
stereo is an own property of PACKING, so inherited names such as "constructor"
and "toString" fall back to "mono".

Review comments at @doc/concept/hang.md:
- Line 72: Update the spatial media description around the [VR demo] link to
state that the demo renders ambisonics at first order: it decodes channels 0–3
and does not play higher-order channels or later head-locked stereo channels.
Keep the limitation attached to the demo’s playback claim so readers do not
mistake it for a general ambisonics limit.

Review comments at @quest/m1/vr-demo-try.md:
- Around line 19-20: Update the headset setup instructions around `just vr
serve` to explain that the page and broadcast relay must both be reachable from
the headset. Document the relay URL override or require forwarding the relay
endpoint as well as the page, so the headset does not try to connect to its own
`localhost:4443`.

Review comments at @test/vr/run.sh:
- Line 15: Update the VR harness after the Cargo build to stage both executables
with harness_stage under $HARNESS_RUN, then use those staged paths when starting
the relay with harness_spawn and invoking moq. Preserve the existing setup and
execution flow while ensuring later steps no longer depend on the original
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