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Jacksonjdr94 Thank you for encouraging words, knowing what we are doing behind the scenes, I will repeat, what I wrote before, that there will be a point where all videos will be shot normally and have choice of good passthrough experience if one chooses it. No more need for greenscreen in porn production. Then we will look at this period as unnecessary banter and chill.

      Always appreciate research and testing to push the limits. I have been personally manually keying my own footage on the greenscreen videos so far with excellent success. Even though my pimax headset does not have passthrough, I am using some old footage from when I still owned a K2 pro and it matches scale perfectly with your scenes. I am able to greenscreen my own custom backgrounds and the resolution is as good as the main video, something I doubt any headset with cameras will be able to match for several more years.

      One quick question with this update. Will these changes remove greenscreen moving forward and will these updated scenes still allow us to key out the background on premiere?

        metichemsi yes, we are removing the greenscreen and baking it into alpha, so basically we are doing the keying for you. You will be able to assemble the alpha in premiere and use it as matte.

            Sandi_SLR Incredible! Dont listen to all the hate regarding passthrough, the problem is that most of them have not even experienced a decent passthrough experience. The passthrough effect on premiere with footage from the same camera and at similar angle is incredible. Now i just wish i would have kept my K2 Pro in order to go out and shoot some more background locations for these videos before i upgraded to the R5C. That or you guys upgrade to the R5 C hahaha

              a month later

              Quick update!

              The feature is in testing phase and it should be released at start of next week as part of 13.8.1

              We will start with this video, it should be ready on release https://www.sexlikereal.com/scenes/asmr-closeup-personal-attention-from-xxlayna-30056
              And the rest will follow as fast as our editors can get it out.

              When we manage to convert all the greenscreen videos, we are also returning all videos under SLR Originals studio, since it should be much easier to watch them now, without that green color 🙂

              I am looking forward to it, hope you are too 😉

              Cheers,

              Sandi

                Vrsumo2017 I don't want to be inserted into a porn scene, but I have a whole list of women who I'd give this treatment to!

                    Will65 lol, it wouldn't be something I'd use on a daily but be cool to witness. Technology is getting very cray cray, when I'm HAF sometimes its kinda scary thinking about it and where it's going. 😮

                      Sandi_SLR
                      sounds great! 🥳
                      how can non-fisheye vr180 videos use this?
                      can it handle semi-transparent pixels in the alpha or only full opacity & full transparency?
                      and how come that we can't use a file type that supports alpha channel like .webm or .mov?
                      anyways, i'm really looking forward to it 😋

                          petelee Hey,

                          • converting equirectangular projection to fisheye should be no problem
                          • its 8bit, so I that means 256 shades of grey / transparency
                          • it is down to player our app uses, of course using video format with alpha would be cool, nothing we can do at the moment about it sadly
                            9 days later

                            alina Still not ready, we had to move it to next release (scheduled on 17 April) due some stubborn bug our devs had to solve.

                            We uploaded a sample video that we are testing it on currently https://www.sexlikereal.com/scenes/alpha-test-33753
                            So this is how it will look for non passthrough viewers, no more solid green BG.

                            One good thing is that we got extra time to do proper color correction, I will sit down with post production team to get best result possible.

                                Thanks for prompt reply and all the work your team is putting forth so that we can enjoy great immersion. Hopefully it continues to get better and better!

                                8 days later

                                Sandi_SLR
                                just tested the new alpha passthrough feature & it's mindblowingly good! 🥳
                                that is a monumental step! great work! 🙌
                                so you mentioned up top to maybe script a ffmpeg tool that takes a prepared alpha matt, breaks it into pieces and places those pieces on the fisheye video. is that something you can provide pretty please? 👉👈🥺

                                    petelee Yes, the tool is ready, give me few days to figure out how to share it. Will follow up in this thread.

                                      8 days later

                                      Sandi_SLR any update when new greenscreen video will be release?

                                      Will there ever be a time when a green screen production video will be released weekly?

                                        15 days later

                                        Sandi_SLR
                                        i really like this new alpha feature! i'm currently figuring out how to make videos with alpha😊
                                        my test files play fine if i store the file on the headset. now i would love to watch them via dlna. but for some reason only the _alpha in the filename_alpha_fisheye_LR_ALPHA.mp4 isn't recognized over dlna. everything else is. there is also no button showing up to select alpha.
                                        also i would like to make tests with some keyframes, to see which scenes would make sense to process, but sadly png files aren't showing up in the files overview. if i simply rename them to filename.png.jpg they are showing up and i can view them. sometimes i forget to rename them though 😅 so also being able to select png images in the files overview would be nice.