Your hands grip the saddle of a dragon banking over sunrise cliffs. Your gloves turn a rally wheel as pine trees streak past the windshield. Your dive light cuts through the blue murk of a sunken wreck. First-person POV is the most immersive format in short-form video, and the POV template ships it as one click on EmpirioLabs.
POV is a camera template, not a single trend. The first-person perspective, your own hands in the lower frame, the natural head-sway motion, and a single continuous take are baked in. You describe where you are and what your hands are doing. Any scenario works: fantasy, racing, space, underwater, parkour, or just cooking pasta in a sunlit kitchen. For the specific wake-up-as-a-kid nostalgia look, use the companion Time Capsule template; POV is the general-purpose version.
See POV in action
How to generate POV videos on EmpirioLabs
You need an EmpirioLabs account with active credits.
Step 1: Open the playground
Sign in to platform.empiriolabs.ai, click Playground, switch to a video model. POV recommends Seedance 2.0 Pro.
Step 2: Open the Templates picker
Click Templates. Filter by Cinematic or search for POV.
Step 3: Pick POV and describe the moment
Click the POV card. Say where you are and what your hands are doing, or click one of the suggested chips: riding a dragon at sunrise, drifting a rally car, a spacewalk above Earth, a wingsuit dive, a shipwreck dive, rooftop parkour at night.
Step 4: Generate
Hit Send. Generation typically takes 60 to 180 seconds, and ambient audio (wind, engine, water) is generated with the video.
Using the POV template via the API
curl https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/videos/generations \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $EMPIRIOLABS_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"template": "pov", "prompt": "Riding a dragon over misty mountain cliffs at sunrise, hands gripping the saddle"}'Pricing
Seedance 2.0 Pro starts at $1.50 for a 5-second 720p clip. POV also supports Seedance Fast, Wan 2.7, Wan 2.6, Kling O3, Happy Horse, Pixverse, and MOSS Video+Audio for variety. Full pricing on the pricing page.
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