@Rakly3 @Kieshi
I will start by saying that you guys have not answered my question. Can you guys answer my question? I will repeat the question very explicitly here so that there is no ambiguity as to what I was asking, in the hopes that I can get an answer from you two:
I no longer get the option to get into immersive mode, and now I have to use the Hub for that. [...] I was wondering if this might be just a problem on my end (maybe my headset went crazy and I need to reflash it?) or if SLR actually stopped supporting immersive mode from the browser
Can you guys please answer the above?
With that said, let me focus on the question Kieshi brought up around disliking the Hub.
If I had to summarize everything in a very few words I would say this: it is tremendously difficult to beat the browsability and ease of use of a web browser with a custom in-house app, and the Hub is no exception.
The browser gives me significantly superior search and browsability capabilities. This is the #1 feature that I need when I'm watching porn: I want to be able to search for content of any kind, open a few tabs (right click->open new tab), watch them, go back to do a few more searches and open a few more tabs while not closing the previous tabs that I had already opened, etc., etc.. I can even have other porn websites open too!
The Hub kills all of that. It cannot simply handle it because the Hub is not designed to handle this rather common navigation pattern. The Hub is designed around having one porn experience at a time, and then exit it and forget about it. That's not how I watch porn, and I'm positive this is not how many people watch porn either.
There are other things that I dislike about the Hub. A few examples:
- Custom keyboard: as a user I'm used to my headset's keyboard. Using a different keyboard feels very unnatural.
- The search experience also feels clunkier. I just need a text box search field.
- The constant vibration from the controller every time you hover over any UI component is tremendously annoying.
- Navigation into a specific actress' profile... I might be misremembering here, but is that supported? With the browser you can simply click on the actress' profile avatar and navigate into it, but I do not think this exists on the Hub experience. Even if it existed it would not matter much though, because as I explained you can only have one thing open at a time!
@Rakly3 I can't install the DeoVR app. Why?
This is another aspect about this "install the app" phylosophy that I strongly encourage you guys to take a step back and reconsider. I share my headset with other people, and of course I don't want them to know I'm using the headset to watch porn. I cannot simply install apps that will raise any alarms, and this is what a browser in anonymous mode is specifically designed for.
Suggesting that people install a "DeoVR" is something that you should reconsider. Many poeple cannot simply do that, so suggesting the idea means that you guys are misunderstanding a significant part of your audience.
So, to me, the browser is not just the only viable option (I don't want to install an app), it is also the only good option when it comes to navigating the content that you folks offer. Your platform to me is a giant porn library that I want to effectively navigate, and the Hub is preventing me from doing that.
Other websites offer browser navigation with immersive mode. SLR used to offer it, but now you guys don't. @Rakly3 @Kieshi can you guys tell me if this will be supported ever again?
To be frank, had I known that you guys would remove this, I would not have bought a subscription. SLR is very unpleasant to interact with so now I'm somewhat avoiding it. There is the aspect also that I cannot genuinely understand why this specific feature would be removed: every other porn website, even free ones, support this. Why remove it? From a technicaly standpoint it's not a challenge really.
