The best VR player

vpurbano I use an 8kx as well, but FYI in case you weren't aware- with DeoVR (and I assume the SLR app), you can click on the usual "download" button on many different sites and it will stream the video, including POVR.

SLR is still the most user-friendly streaming experience by a pretty wide margin, but the above at least does the trick with most sites I've come across. I tend to watch downloaded scenes 99% of the time personally, but the above is handy from skimming through scenes to see if they're "worth" the download.

Wow--I tried Heresphere and it is amazing! Very immersive. How did they do that?

It's too complex for me to use with scripts though. I couldn't figure it out and almost downloaded a virus looking for a solution.

mebejoe Yeah, I like HereSphere a lot as well, definitely become my go-to for downloaded scenes. So many options/settings to tweak and adjust to your heart's content. I really like all the color & image adjustment options, since there's a good number of current studios that haven't quite figured out how to do any post-production and usually look extremely washed out/colorless/etc. Pretty easy to make some adjustments and end up with some more natural-looking scenes. Also the fact that it saves those settings is awesome.

Ignoring all the currently ongoing Deo issues, long term I'd love to see a more extensive set of color/exposure/etc adjustments available, especially for when streaming. Current options help but are pretty limited.

And I've never been able to figure out scripts on HereSphere either yet, not sure if that's a fully-functional thing? It's definitely got a learning curve in general.

I was using SLR up until last night and I got the new Player UI forced on me. It's unusable and if it stays. I'll find another app.

Heathenlamb I don't feel the new player UI that bad. It has potential to get tweaked in future releases to solve most actual complaints by the community. For me there are many posiitves. The timeline now shows the different sections and it's easier to find some preferred positions. And also to combine the options with the main player is not so bad as many here believe because now it doesn't occlude to much of the scene so the UI can be left open longer during playback (if stereo is on during UI visibility).
So DeoVR / SLR app is still my preferred player but I'm worried about the notice that they want to remove the DLNA local Network playback without adding SMB. So then with a Quest 2 and my NAS there will be no possibility anymore to play back local downloaded Network VR content (scenes from other studios or also any other VR downloaded video files).
If this happens then the player looses half of it's right to exist.

If DeoVR drops offline options it will be a big step back.

Honestly for me I was using DeoVR for offline viewing before I suscribed to SLR - and when I started looking at SLR streaming it was an "aha" moment that made me subscribe to SLR - the ease of access to the library.

So - if you remove the offline viewing, you will also lose the pull through userbase of like me who chose SLR because of DeoVR experience

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1. I use DeoVR 95% of the time. PlayA app as an alternative should any issues arise with Deo.

2. Suggestion to improve DeoVR / things I miss:

3. custom timestamps, or get access to timestamps on downloaded files.

4. model name tags. Sometimes it's a pain and timeconsuming to figure out who is who.

5. consider having model names in filename for us who like to download movies and more easily categorize them.

6. I love how you can delete files on DeoVR while browsing local files. That was a superb function to add. Can we get the option to move files and perhaps rename them? I find I spend a lot of time to switch between VR googles and the PC to get this job done. Would be very liberating to be able to organize my files from VR alone.

Procyon custom timestamps, or get access to timestamps on downloaded files.

Agree.I really miss the time stamps on downloaded files.

Is there anyway to use Skybox with a SLR original video? I tried DeoVR. Its just not for me. Can you rewrite the name of the file so you can see it properly in Skybox? Thanks.

petermc Thanks for the reply but it looks weird as you look at the bottom of the video. I think it comes from the fisheye. Its like the video all goes towards the center. Its "pointy" at the bottom.

kobraking I’ll have to take another look. Skybox does have a 200 degree fisheye option now so I assumed they played ok from a cursory watch.

kobraking I think it comes from the fisheye. Its like the video all goes towards the center. Its "pointy" at the bottom.

Are you using an old version of the app? Or I guess more specifically which headset are you using?

The "pointy" comment makes me think your headset just isn't displaying the fisheye properly, since this is exactly what the 190 degree scenes will look like when they're not properly displayed. Basically like some sort of weird "black hole" effect that will be on the bottom of the video, sort of puling the rest of the video into it.

justsomedude101 not sure Skybox has a 190 degree fisheye option so the 8k stuff my not display perfectly on there. I’m not sure.

I discovered how to fix it and I'm embarrassed how easy it was. Open "stereo mode" option. Then at the top pick fisheye. It plays any fisheye perfectly.

kobraking Haha I miss simple things all the time, think everyone does. Just glad to hear you figured it out ️

My one and only wish for DEO app is that the speed control be made sticky, i.e. if I slow a vid down to 50%, the next video I open plays at that speed too. You could add a “keep speed” toggle switch for those that prefer all videos to start at full speed, i.e they would toggle this option on or off. Thanks!!

argyle43 Hey, this is actually bad implementation on our part, all settings that are in "Quick" tab should be copies from other tabs, where you will be able to set them as default, this will carry trough to new video.

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else - I would LOVE to have some fine-grained +/- volume adjustment buttons in DeoVR.

It's really, really difficult to make fine adjustments to the volume when you're trying to move a slider with a virtual laser pointer, so having something that you can click to increase/decrease volume by a small amount would be great.

I'm usually playing with the volume pretty low since the Valve Index has off-ear speakers and I don't really want it broadcasting the soundtrack too far, so there's a fine line between "quiet enough" and "inaudible"