I posted about this a while back, was interesting to read Handy's response. All I care about is being able to enjoy good scripts in perpetuity without being tied to a sub. I'm not a fan of their DRM, even tokens which "don't expire" - anyone with a history of downloading audible books or mobile games knows that licenses expire and companies go bust, so access to your content can be denied at any time. The only way to take ownership of digital content is to be able to download the full original source - in this case scenes and the associated scripts. The recent VRB departure is a reminder of this.

Too many companies in this space are short-sighted, trying to grab money / subs instead of putting the customer first to secure market share. It's still a young industry with massive growth ahead. Customer experience is everything and making us jump through hoops is a good way to fail. Handy's idea is good for them, but bad for studios who adopt it. I don't know anyone subbed to NAVR or POVR because of their half-hearted attempt at script integration.

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    Povr will improve massively with Heresphere script integration, which is being worked on at the moment according the Dev on discord. I tried for month, but in its present browser only iteration it sucks ass, so I cancelled. Big plus is the scripts being included in the base subscription.

    Naughy America is just overpriced and not all that with there direction and scene variety, star power on point but still grossly overpriced wilth the interactive bolt on bolt on.

      fenderwq This is interesting....but wait,....programming skills....wow, this is I don't have any

          I would put it this way.

          Automated scripts remind me of year 2015 cardboards compared to Quest Pro we have now on SLR. Of course there's some room for improvement like Cardobard did all the way till 2020 or something before software got deprecated, but fundamentally it's not going to match skilled script creator.

          And I'm not even sure if Cardboards even were a good thing. Many people tried it and decided to never do VR again.

          We try to get what's viable with automation and put it in the skilled hands of script creator.

          Give me a few more months and I’ll have something that will outperform human made scripts. Was going to try to demo it at the AVN Expo next month (I assumed SLR would be there)… but then Life said “yo, Fuck yer plans!”

          This talk reminds me of the various forum posts I have seen on auto-generated subtitles vs professionally-created ones. If the quality of Handy's automated scripts pales in comparison to what SLR manually pushes out, fans will realize it and only prefer the latter--especially if the price difference is negligible (or not even a factor to begin with). Immersion--be it with scripts that perfectly emulate what needs emulating or accurately translated and timed text on screen--will always remain paramount.

          Philip Faster and cheaper more often leads to plastic Walmart crap. Faster/cheaper is what Handy and NAVR is selling - are you on their side? Or the side of the scripters that work hard for you and the customers who pretty much only choose SLR for the scripts?