// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did POV say to the camera? You're looking at things from my point of view.

POV, pov, or PoV commonly refers to:

• Point of view (disambiguation)

POV, pov, or PoV may also refer to:

Science and technology

• Persistence of vision, an optical illusion whereby multiple discrete images blend into a single image in the human mind
  • POV-Ray, or Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer, a text-based ray-tracing program
• Pyramid of vision, a 3D computer graphics term describing what the viewer sees

Media and entertainment

• P.O.V. (magazine), a lifestyle magazine targeted at young professional men
• POV (TV series), a PBS television program showing independent, non-fiction films
• POV (album), an album by Utopia (1985)
• "POV" (song), a song by Ariana Grande (2020)
• "P.O.V." (song), a song by Clipse featuring Tyler, the Creator (2025)
• "P.O.V.", a track on the album Radio:Active by McFly (2008)
• "P.O.V.", the seventh track on the album Morning After by Dvsn (2017)
• "POV" (Batman: The Animated Series), an episode in Batman fiction
• PoV, a live concert video album by Peter Gabriel
• People on Vacation, an American rock band starring Jaret Reddick of Bowling for Soup and Ryan Hamilton of Smile Smile
• Point-of-view shot, a technique in motion photography
  • Point-of-view pornography, a subset of gonzo pornography in which a performer also holds the camera

Other uses

• Parliament of Victoria, the state legislature of Victoria, Australia
• Privately owned vehicle, as a U.S. government acronym
• POV, or Persian Old Version, a bible translation into Persian
• POV (surname) (ᐱᐅᕖ), an Inuit surname
• POV switch, a control on some joysticks
• Guinea-Bissau Creole language (ISO 639-3 code: pov)
• Power of Veto (disambiguation)

See also

• POW, or prisoner of war, a military term for a captive of the enemy
• All pages with titles beginning with POV
• All pages with titles containing POV