Systems and methods for improved delivery and display of 360-degree content

A system comprising:

• input/output circuitry configured to:
• receive a spherical media content item comprising a plurality of tiles, wherein the spherical media content item is associated with metadata;
• control circuitry configured to:
• identify, based at least in part on the metadata, a subset of the plurality of tiles;
• predict, based on the identified subset of tiles, a viewport to be generated for display at a computing device;
• identify, based on the predicted viewport to be generated for display, a first subset of tiles to be transmitted to a computing device at a first resolution;
• encode, at a first priority, the first subset of tiles at the first resolution, wherein tiles that are not included in the first subset of tiles are encoded at a second priority, and wherein the second priority is lower than the first priority;
• and
• wherein the input/output circuitry is further configured to:
• transmit, to the computing device, the first subset of tiles at the first resolution.