Suggest background composition themes for Passthrough videos

Sandi_SLR fantastic! Cant wait to play with this.
Quick question, can you plan on adding additional details to your passthrough videos that show timestamps or marks each time the camera changes? It would be great if we could get additional info on these passthrough videos at each camera change position, doenst have to be exact but something like "Horizontal, 18" above floor" or "Standing, tilted down, 6ft off the floor" or "laying down, tilted 10 degrees up, 16" above the floor"

With basic meta data like that we can have people with the k2 pro shoot a bunch of clips or scenes with those types of parameters that we can then use to populate a bunch of different backgrounds in the correct order and so that they are facing and angled correctly for the scene. It might sound like a hassle but if you are really serious about adding this second video layer option for custom passthrough scenes so we can load our own then you should really consider adding this level of information on your passthrough scenes.

metichemsi We dont have such info, especially height. The rotation is actually possible to find out when editing, but still we wont do that. Instead I already planned to allow bg having its own set of transform settings, as a child to the main dome. So you will get all the freedom to match the angle

Sandi_SLR Ok, that sounds good, I look forward to seeing how that works out. Forget about the height then but knowing at least the general angle of the camera at each instance would be helpful enough for us when we film our own bg shots. I've experimented with this and combining a sex scene that has the camera tilted up or down slightly with a horizontal background looks bad so I'm curious to see how far the transform settings can help with this before you start running into the edges of the bg footage either at the top or bottom, depending on the angle.

Very exciting to see you guys still keep experimenting with new stuff.

Any idea of when these features might start making it out? Days, weeks, moths, sometime this year?

doublevr I imagine a flat video that we imported on the VR headset and that would be playing at the same time as the VR video

Vrsumo2017 pornception....

Vrsumo2017 Wow this is great, this exactly what i wanted... sadly I can't use deoVR.
This should be add to the SLR app for sure !

Vrsumo2017 Being myself a monotasker, I do not get it why you guys would want to watch videos inside a VR porn video. Maybe the news channel but more porn? To be more efficient? To increase the dose? I mean you are not married to the 3D girl for 25 years and she will not tell you to go F yourself like when making phone calls or checking e-mails during sex. In some next gen VR, the 3D girl will smack you and walk away furiously when you even dare to think about Android overlay

DeoVR has a custom background setting i've set with some AI generated skyboxes from blockade labs. It would be awesome if the DeoVR background settings could be used instead of room passthrough.

SchnuppiLilac In some next gen VR, the 3D girl will smack you and walk away furiously when you even dare to think about Android overlay

Lol

doublevr I'm actually trying to do an unreal engine crash course so I can generate my own CGI backgrounds, since I dont own the K2 pro anymore and the canon footage just doesnt line up at all, I am working on trying to work out the workflow to export my own CGI scene matching the FOV and fisheye directly from unreal. I'm a total noob at unreal engine but I'm pretty close I think, I just need to hammer out some details with the developer of a plugin I am trying to use. Once I make progress I will start to share some very basic examples, that is, if I dont pull my head off as I'm learning this damn thing.

SchnuppiLilac I’m sure there are people in real life who fuck while having porn on in the background.

petermc Yes, there are and I know a few of them personally But the other thing seems to me like going to a concert with Spotify on one ear or watching Netflix in the cinema. I am not judging, just want to understand, maybe I am missing out on something

doublevr Absolutely, I'm very excited to get this working, right now it's nothing fancy at all since I'm learning Unreal from the ground up, this is more about the proof of concept of getting VR footage with the correct format you guys use for your original scenes that I can simply drop in. Once I can get this working I will also look into the same concept but with actual equirectangular format as well.

doublevr Ok, I have been at it since last night after work. Made some progress this afternoon and managed to get my first successful export just now.

I now have a more profound respect for the few people out there making CGI VR simply from the rendering standpoint. I dont have a very hefty PC but it takes me about 15-20 minutes to render one frame and with essentially a super small and barren scene. I cant imagine how long it would take a full scene with actual significant assets and sequences. I can see why we dont have a plethora of high quality VR CGI now.

Please dont judge too harshly, I do not know unreal engine at all, I just picked this up and this was more of a proof of concept render attempt. At this rate I dont think I have the rendering power to render out actual videos. At this rate it would take my PC about 8hours to render about 30 frames. Anyways this is not perfect but keep in mind that I was able to export this image out of unreal as you see it. Also please take note that my camera in unreal needs to have it's focal length tweaked, I think by default I left it at 12mm but I think it should be 8mm. I do have it set to a 200 FOV but to view this correctly on DEOVR app I noticed you have to manually select the 220 profile, the 200 profile looks squished. Anyways, I am going to attempt a second render changing my camera to 8mm instead and see if that looks good at 200 FOV profile.

Anyways, to view this first test load it on the app and select the 220 profile, its not perfect but it works!

Let me know what you guys think. If any of you want to see this once I get the right camera lens settings let me know.
With something like this I can take this image and key it as a background on premiere, although I will still need to tweak the camera height and angle, based on the sex scene I first try out, but you guys should get the point.

Ohh and by the way, I rendered this at the 5800x2900 resolution so in theory it should match with the SLR scenes perfectly once I get the correct lens settings.

doublevr check out the "fixed" version with a quick and dirty key on premiere on a scene approximately the right height.