LordCrash Agree! Experiments don’t have to impact the main content until it’s ready. It really is a shame to miss opportunities to make potentially great scenes with great casts with these experiments. The experiments should be bonus content, not trying to replace the main content before it’s perfected. It doesn’t make sense the way it’s currently happening. Calling this an experimental phase is really just an excuse for failing. SLR should be focused on what it knows how to do, release that content and experiment on the side, not failing front and center.
Passthrough & Greenscreen
LordCrash I have no idea how likes alone should be an actual good measurement for public appeal.
Just talking generally here: my understanding is that there is a direct correlation between the amount of likes a scene receives and its general popularity in terms of downloads/time streamed/usage in playlists/etc. etc. etc.
I've seen a lot of seemingly credible theories about how likes/favorites could be misleading due to A, B, or C, which all could certainly (and probably do) factor in. But at the end of the day the data doesn't lie, and the data says that "likes" are far and away the best predictor of overall popularity.
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justsomedude101 so stick in a dislike button to see how far the likes go down then. I’m betting dislikes outweigh likes by a factor of at least two.
or just ignore this and continue to pretend that “data science” is a standard practice at SLR.
LordCrash This scene was shot way before I started working on this problem. I can agree with @justsomedude101 that likes and watch time are quite related. The only thing I can influence is to bother post production to do a better job, for producers decisions you will have to voice, as you did, it in thread like this one https://forum.sexlikereal.com/d/3506-can-we-please-get-non-greenscreen-versions
You can also try a poll asking people do they like it, undecided, or dislike?
One thing I will add, that we are still actively working on a solution for converting normal videos into passthrough. When we figure it out, there will be no need (or discouraged) to shoot on greenscreen... This should end the experimentation period.
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Sandi_SLR experimentation period
fyi we are not lab rats. we are customers who are paying for quality content.. not unwatchable experiments
spacepirate If you track back to what I said (experimental period) you will see it was my personal opinion, not an official statement.
Wow, lord personally think you should cut Sandi some slack! Sandi was just sharing some potential improvements behind the scenes for pass through. Although I agree that sometimes content gets wasted but I make that case a shit ton of scenes. Milfvr for example has a shit ton of great scenes but the fact the footage is low resolution completely kills the experience for me. Or those videos where the camera they use makes all the models small. The ratio kills the immersion, or when cameras are not centered for blowjob or cowgirl scenes. All these in my opinion also ruin a perfectly good scene. Sandi experiments on one scene that was a studio decision and you bite their head off. Without experimentation their will never be growth or improvements. On side note do you even have a vr headset that is capable of pass through? Have you tried it ? Or do you just hate pass through in general based on your reaction? Give Sandi a break! Keep up the great work Sandi, I know I and others appreciate it!
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can this method work with flat screen scenes too ? and like add depth and 3d to it ? and put in sbs mode if wish ?
how this method work ? or is this method just for make it easier and better accurate to cut out background on any vr scene and play in passthrough ?
or im on wrong path and misunderstand ?
would like to see a probe of this and figure out how it works...rly interesting looking stuff you do here guys...
dudu32 Hey, this is merely to carry info on which pixels are see through. So BG removal, baked into the video, then it doesn't need to be computed on headset, so not only the result being much better, we won't loose any fps.
So same as you have alpha channel with images, we mimic this by adding the alpha channel around the fisheyes, since we can't have it included in the pixel itself.
People have said multiple times over that the like button is often used to add to favorites as a sort of "watch later" button, and just because someone watches something doesn't mean they enjoyed it, it just means they watched it. I've watched all the passthrough videos that have dropped so far, even though I hated pretty much every one of them, just to see if something improved.
alina What the heck are you talking about? Read all my posts before replying, I never attacked Sandi in the first place...
justsomedude101
There can be stuff that is even more hated than loved. If you only count the positives you'll never find out.
Reality is that most people are simply indifferent to a lot of scenes and don't bother to giving a like at all.
Sandi_SLR I'd really wish this was true but reality is that it's not only about passthrough but also about positions etc. The latest passthrough scene with Dora only offered positions with you liying on your back.
I don't see how it should make people happy if future scenes with real VR settings were limited to certain positions simply so to that some people could use it with passthrough while liying on their bed.
Like I said before, two different customer bases with different expecations. Apples and oranges.
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LordCrash Maybe its not clear, but I was talking about BG removal on "normal" videos, meaning producers havo no need to think how it will look on passthrough, just check what manny_s studio did in recent releases. We will offer the same thing at higher quality alpha (not compilation, just full video). And users will be free to enjoy both options.
Check the opening post here https://forum.sexlikereal.com/d/3301-a-passthrough-for-any-video
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LordCrash I don't see how it should make people happy if future scenes with real VR settings were limited to certain positions
It's not tho G, literally I've seen plenty of scenes where I got into doggy positions, standing Mish, faraway Mish, missionaries on a seat where I located the model on my desk chair. Oral on a female at the edge of my bed. All kinds. And with guardian off in q2 it's very simple to relocate the model in your own environment. Like doggystyle I'll move her to the corner of my bed, for sum reason I just like that visual 
With regular vrp rarely did I get up for positions, I just watched all positions laying down, but pt gives me a reason to get into positions.
Idk, I like it 
Plus close ups seem more present, the 3d effect works better imo.
Literally I watched one full scene, got into positions, located her in different ares in my room, not lying I needed a shower after 
To all you who use fleshlights or torsos and handys, bet yall have Hella fun 
Lenovo no misunderstanding here. i have zero interest in passthrough even if its color and high resolution.
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Yall do know there's a demand for other vr players to add pass-through options right?
Heresphere and skybox planning pt options
If these players add pt options and it works optimal or just as good as slr pt is now and they have smb support what will keep pt users around still? It Would probably be your actual greenscreen productions, cuz I don't think no vr player pt options will work as good as it does on a actual greenscreen production, it'll work great but I think there will always be small amounts of artifacts and pass-through on hair and eyes. I don't think it'll ever be 100% perfect clean edged on the fly.
If it ever does, GREAT!
But, If it were up to me, I'd put a separate vr studio for green screen productions and preseted pt videos
Also no edited in green background, do it like the space orgasm video how it was a green room, green sheets, also I'd try plain white rooms. And keep doing scenes like yall did that A Private Dance with Kay Lovely, your videos yall produce specifically for pass through is what will keep pt users around, should these other vr players like heresphere and skybox start adding pt options. Or maybe even Meta adds pt options to their home menu. I seen a video sum q2 headsets in other countries had a slider for the pt option. Supposedly was an error. 
But what ever yall decide, I'm down
Hell, Green screen or not I'm still enjoying using pt options on regular videos. Make your own green screen on the fly in real time.
idk 
...I still don't get the fuss about it tho, there's literally tons of vrp out there for every one, and there's shit load of niches, and never once have I seen someone fussing saying stop with the plushie sex.
Why we so afraid of the pt
It's like yall wake up from a nightmare in a panic screaming NO PT NO GREEN SCREENS! NOOOOOOO!
Does this have to do with the fact sum users got slr to go back to old rig cuz of the big scale size, but some of yall really liked it, is this revenge?
Took away my 8k cam
NO GREEN SCREEN FOR YOU!
thumbs down thumbs down 
Dis like, give negative reviews.
That's another thing, if you don't like to use the pt or greenscreen how the hell you giving a review then, smh 
Lol, yall cray 
But it's all love here VRFam, you have a 8k giant fetish we have a hotties crawling on our own bed fetish it's all good, move the horizontal off set to the right to get you that giant effect. 
