[RELEASE] The Show - SoftDriver [VR PMV Short]

[SoftDriver]

The Show - A softcore VR PMV short

Here's a little something to keep the softcore fans happy till my next release.

I've not tried to make any VR videos before, so I hope this works okay for everyone.

If you like it please comment, and any suggestions for more videos then I'd be happy to hear it.

I'm not sure how to add Metadata to the video for the VR settings, so any guidance on this I would appreciate.

I made a audio based funscript - please feel to give feedback


Please Import to your own MEGA Drive first!
https://mega.nz/folder/495yRLzY#AYRy-4txoyvkaJITSTa5lQ

In MEGA link folder:
The_Show_SoftDriver_180_LR.mp4
The_Show_SoftDriver_180_LR.funscript
The-Show-SoftDriver-Poster.png

The Show2.png (582.56 KiB) Viewed 12416 times

[fakeblah333]

Nice!!!

[PlayfulGuy]

Do you need VR to watch this, or can you use the video without it?

I'm pretty clueless when it comes to VR stuff.

PG

[Bosse976]

[BlueM00]

Do you need VR to watch this, or can you use the video without it?

I'm pretty clueless when it comes to VR stuff.

PG

"VR" denotes 2 images side-by-side, one per eye, and is often recorded with fisheye lenses and the viewer is zoomed in on an area to get VR head-motion. So yes, you need VR to watch.

FWIW I think they should stop calling such videos "VR". They're videos filmed with dual fisheye lenses that gets weird if you try to zoom out to a comfortable level. Also, as they're high-res fisheye video (much of which the viewer never sees), the file-sizes are insane.

[Ghingis]

Do you need VR to watch this, or can you use the video without it?

I'm pretty clueless when it comes to VR stuff.

PG

To watch? Not really, your PC is enough. To enjoy, probably.

There is a tool called Spatial Media Metadata Injector.
Open the video, tell it that it is a 360 Video (first checkbox), and the result will be fairly reasonable.

This fools the player, and it will think that the 2 images next to each other are actually what a 3d camera saw in front and behind, and map it in a sphere.

So VLC can open it without an issue, and you can zoom and pan around. If you are able to find a comfortable viewing angle, you can watch it without a VR headset.
(see attachment, note, I had to compress it to upload, hence the resolution)

But obviously, you will lose all the flair that comes with VR, and the image will still be distorted, but it is better than just opening the video and watching half of it. You can do that with VLC as well, but I do not remember how, Google it.


Or you can create a flat video from it with ffmpeg:

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ffmpeg -hide_banner -i input_video.mp4 -filter:v "v360=input=fisheye:ih_fov=180:iv_fov=180:output=flat:in_stereo=sbs:out_stereo=2d:d_fov=125:w=3840:h=1920:pitch=-15" -map 0:v:0 -map 0:a? -c copy -c:v libx265 -crf 18 -pix_fmt yuv420p flat.mp4

And these are the values from it that you should tweak until you find what is working.
ih_fov=180 // usually 160/180/200
iv_fov=180 // usually 160/180/200
d_fov=125 // field of view, how much of it will be captured
pitch=-15 //pitch of the camera, usually you want to look a bit down...

[PlayfulGuy]

Based on the answers to my previous question, I guess it's time to start looking at a VR setup
I was planning on buying a new computer within the next 6 to 12 months anyway, so I think I'll plan on getting one that can handle a VR setup, and get the whole package at once.

When the time comes I'll be back in the forums asking for recommendations on what VR to buy.

Thanks!

[TCMilovana]

I'm not sure how to add Metadata to the video for the VR settings, so any guidance on this I would appreciate.

I don't know about metadata, that could certainly be an option, but most of what I've seen is set up in the file name.
The two main ones I've seen for side by side VR are 180_180x180_3dh or 180_LR. So for your file I just renamed it to The-Show-SoftDriver 180_LR.mp4 and it plays perfectly in DeoVR. Other players may have different naming conventions though.

There are also other VR recordings that use different cameras that have file tags like MKX200 or FISHEYE190.

I'm not a video editor, but would guess mixing different types/versions of VR content will lead to distortion in some scenes.