AV1 Is Now Live on SexLikeReal!

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If your headset supports AV1 you'll get it by default. The same for your desktop browser.

Hairsational people fall for the hype just like they did for 265 back in the day until they realized they had to upgrade their hardware most of the time to even get smooth playback haha Sure a 30 series card is not cutting edge but a ton of people are still well below that on their PC builds. I will wait to see how the original quality AV1 files play back on my PC before I make my decision to stop paying for this site. If it works I might stick around but I am not expecting a bump in any quality at all.

harigeharry technically speaking sure, but even with a quest 3 I could tell a substantial difference in quality from using their DeoVR app vs something like heresphere. Granted they have made some improvements to the deovr app and its gotten better but to say that you need the top of the line headset to notice a discernable difference in quality is not so black and white. I'm sure if there is anything worth noticing it will be visible on even a quest 3 headset. If not, then its a negligible amount that it can be surmised that this was done purely to save server hosting space and costs and to further push streaming. Curious if they will get rid of the download limits or increase them once everything is switched to AV1 if everything is going to be that much smaller? My guess is no hahaha because they dont really care about downloads and are trying to do anything they can to get more people to stream. If you really think they are not amassing a large amount of user data that is either already being brokered or will be once the money well starts to run out you are out of your damn mind haha Dont forget there is no meaningful user data unless most people are streaming, it's all laying out the groundwork for when eye tracking is common on most headsets, that is where all the real valuable data will start to be farmed, right now we are simply mice in trial runs lol

metichemsi Well I guess so. But what I mean is that if I switch from my Quest 3 to my AVP it's really a huge difference in sharpness and quality. So any noticeable details will be much easier to see on a high end headset.

doublevr This scene has no download option for the higher quality 'original' file. Is this some side effect of AV1 mastering?

Lmao

doublevr interesting... I haven't saved anything in AV1 format, but I guess I should probably start. I'm just doing 80mbps in 265, before that was 200mbps in 264.

I regards to some of the comments here... the camera is recording in raw which is a huge format that can be saved in any number of codecs once on the computer. The bitrate during recording is around 2400mbps, or 1gb every 3 seconds. SO the cameras give lots of data to work with, no matter the codec we choose at the end.

Did anyone notice headset battery running low faster while playing AV1 videos?

doublevr Av1 master file render

... aka SLR is going all VRBangers and got rid of the download button. Who's going to tell the guys asking about it in the comment section?

doublevr But what about Original 8K h.265 downloads paid by subscription? Gone forever?

doublevr I think many (incl. myself) would appreciate keeping the 8K h.265 HQ download option as part of their subscription. You could even make these files smaller than they were before (like 60-90 Mbps) and still sell the AV1 downloads as an UHQ option to those who want the best possible quality.