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  • Suggest background composition themes for Passthrough videos

metaverse Thanks! It's been a nightmare trying to learn how to do this the past couple of days but the results seem very promising. Also, since @Sandi_SLR clarified that the actual backgrounds for this implementation will need to be 360, hopefully that wont be mono, but full stereo support, I plan on rendering these in 360 as well.

Also, by the sound of that, people who have any type of 180 or 360 camera should be very excited by this. I know I plan on using my 180 and 360 cameras to also get some 360 shots of my bedroom and home locations soon that I will be able to drop in on these as well which will give us even better "passthrough" quality than any of the headsets out or that will be out in the next year or two and all without needing to upgrade your current headset.

      metichemsi You will be able to use any projection and setting the videos use (_SBS, _Fisheye...), I just mentioned 360 since if you have 180 dome and you have to change the pitch by a lot, you might see the edge of the dome.

          Sandi_SLR this is great, thanks for sharing that, sounds like you guys have most of the bases covered then.

          One quick question, I dont think it will matter, but will this work on both fisheye and equirectangular passthrough videos the same way? I'm thinking it wont matter but just wanted to make sure since all your content is still in fisheye.

          Thanks!

            Sandi_SLR makes sense, yea I didnt bother rendering these out in 360 because I cant even test that anyways. But that sounds good that you will accept any form.

            Question: If you will accept any form, in my example I actually used a 200 dome just like the k2 pro footage. Will you allow multiple images to be programed into one scene as well? This would allow me to render out different angles and positions from different locations in the scene which could be very interesting instead of only recycling one 360 image during the entire scene with different modifiers for height and pitch adjustments.

                metichemsi you will be able to do this when we add the "settings per timetag" thing I mentioned a bit up. Then you can choose different scene for every timetag.

                    Sandi_SLR hallelujah! That sounds great, that way we have the option of simply using the same sphere for all of it of change up if we want to spice things up haha

                    Thanks, this feature sounds better and better already.

                        metichemsi All of this sounds right up your alley. You are putting in the hard work so I expect some good backgrounds coming from you. I'm going to need your backgrounds cause I'm not going to make them.

                        Thanks in advance.

                            rerun119 I'm just excited to see them put this development forward. I have been playing with manually keying their videos for a while but I sold my k2 pro some time ago and back when I owned it I never thought about going out and recording custom clips for backgrounds so they would match perfectly with their footage but now unreal has us covered haha

                                doublevr Thanks, once your app supports a second full resolution video as a background perhaps it will be worth exploring, for now it seems you will start to only support images, which I really want to further explore with unreal and CGI using 360 domes with all those sliders and controls your team has shared.

                                All very exciting and thanks for all the feedback and support. Keep us posted once we can start testing out these custom backgrounds

                                  metaverse Very nice, I had no idea this labs channel even existed haha Sweet, thanks for sharing!

                                    doublevr

                                    There is one studio on here (can't remember off top of my head) that does Latina videos with a river/rainforest in the background. Someone must live in Central America with an awesome view. The background alone is worth the price of admission.

                                    I'd love to have interesting backgrounds of any type. Off the top of my head, candles, rooftop lounges, waterfall, mansion rooms, spaceship or another planet...

                                        doublevr Wow, I just discovered that the scene is removed - good thing I downloaded it! The studio is VR TOUCH. The scene is 'Savage Girl In A Rainy Day'. I searched the web for this scene or even this studio, and I can't find anywhere. The studio is still here with 8 scenes: https://www.sexlikereal.com/studios/vr-touch

                                        I don't know why this scene (along with some others I liked) was removed?!

                                            SchnuppiLilac YES! The second link you listed is the studio I was referring to. It's not raining in this one, but that's the exact same place where the other one was filmed. In that one, there was a BEAUTIFUL tropical rain occurring in the background, and it was one of the best things I've ever seen in VR. They could have removed the girls and I would have enjoyed just the background!

                                            The girls are fun and sexy, and they do some really nice stuff modeling and playing. I wish I could find this studio on the web, if they aren't going to list their scenes here.