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Article History

Received: 21 January 2026

Accepted: 8 April 2026

First Online: 16 May 2026

Declarations

Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

Ethical statement: All experiments were conducted in accordance with the guidelines of the Research and Development Division at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara and were explicitly approved by its Ethics Committee, confirming compliance with established standards. The study involved only non-clinical experiments with human participants, who judged the perceptual quality of recorded 360° videos. Informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to their involvement. The dataset includes videos of identifiable subjects recorded outdoors, with explicit consent for data collection and publication. No animal subjects were involved, and the study adhered to ethical standards for transparency and responsible data use.

Institutional review board statement: All experiments were conducted in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations of the host Institution, the Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara. The test involved only non-clinical experiments. Participants judged the perceptual quality of the recorded videos. Consent was taken from all participants before involving them in the subjective test.

Informed consent statement: Informed consent was obtained from all participants before recording their identifiable video data for the dataset. They were aware that these data would be available in the public domain.