First, media content 901 is either created or acquired by the network (or client device) or from a content source, respectively. Methods for creating or acquiring data are, e.g., embodied in FIG. 5 and FIG. 6 for natural and synthetic content, respectively. The created content 901 is then converted into an ingest format using a network ingest format creation process 902. The network ingest creation process 902 is also embodied in FIG. 5 and FIG. 6 for natural and synthetic content, respectively. The ingest format may also be updated to store information regarding assets that are potentially reused across multiple scenes from, for example, a media reuse analyzer 911 (detailed later with reference to FIG. 10 and FIG. 14A). The ingest format is transmitted to the network and stored in a ingest media storage 903 (i.e., a storage device). In some embodiments, the storage device may be in the immersive media content producer's network, and accessed remotely for the immersive media network distribution 920. Client and application specific information is optionally available in a remote storage device, client specific information 904. In some embodiments, the client specific information 904 may exist remotely in an alternate cloud network, and may be transmitted to the network.
