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HereSphere VR Video Player (Meta Quest)

VR video player with immersion-enhancing algorithms, streaming, and media library features · By HereSphere

Some random distance issues in 0.5 and other questions and feedback

A topic by dafy234 created May 15, 2022 Views: 319 Replies: 2
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Hello,

I installed 0.5 on oculus quest 2 and noticed that each time I go back to playing videos after I turn the oculus back on (without exiting the player) the distance to the scene is set at random, sometimes  I am too far so I can see the black horizon circle around the scene upfront, sometimes I am too close so I need to turn the head way behind a shoulder to see the black horizon (same scene). Resetting the view (both buttons) helps a little but not completely,  I feel the problem is each time I turn the oculus back on there is some random distance offset that is being added. I can partially solve it with the "distance to origin" setting but I feel like I now have to adjust it for each video for it to look normal. Then when I go back to the same video next time it needs to be readjusted again as my previous settings don't make sense anymore, what previously was too close now is too far etc.  I used 0.4 before and didn't notice such issues.

Also couple questions regarding settings:

- Are there any setting to adjust the video scale/zoom? Sometimes you feel like the world is way too big, sometimes way too small. It's not a player issue just different cameras probably, but I can't find a setting that would adjust it. Distance to the origin helps a little but not fully.

- Which setting can help with double vision effect at close or far distances? In some videos very close objects are too blurry (each eye is seeing under too different angle to merge it together), in other videos close objects are perfectly sharp but far objects are blurry. 

And couple feature requests for consideration:

- Currently it skips forward a few sec each time you pull the joystick right. Would be great if you can hold the joystick right and it would either skip more seconds (the more you hold the more it skips exponentially) or just repeatedly skips as long as you hold. Look at how Media Player Classic handles skipping when you hold the right arrow key, I think it's almost perfect. You can click once to skip ahead a few sec, but you can also hold it down and it would continuously skip while you can still see short glimpses of the video, so you are not skipping blindly. 

- Being able to adjust the camera pitch/yaw/roll while holding the trigger is extremely useful,  but I wish I could lock individual dimensions from changing, like the roll which is more rarely needed to adjust and more annoying if it's not perfectly aligned.

- Would be great to be able to customize columns in the SMB file browser so it looks similar to the media library, with star ratings, favorites, tags, etc.

Thank you for such amazing player, keep up the great work! 

Developer

Your presets might be set to weird values or your saved data might have gotten corrupted. You can try reinstalling the app to see if it fixes the issue. Else, send me a screenshot of your advanced video settings after playing a video multiple times with a restart inbetween, so I can check to see if the values are being changed.

The thumbstick up/down controls the zoom (by adjusting the origin forward setting). You can also adjust the depth/scale by holding the grip button and moving the thumbstick up/down (it adjusts the stitching shift x setting). This also affects how much you have to cross your eyes when objects get close to the camera. Another setting is the camera stereo alignment right setting, which controls the IPD of the stereo cameras.

I'll take you feature requests into consideration. Thanks.

After testing it a bit more I think the problem is not with v0.5 but with the new videos. They appear to have some odd zoom/pov property inside probably (the world looks too big or too small in them) and that hidden property must be leaking into other videos (I am not touching the player settings). It's after watching those videos  my old "normal" videos start looking either zoomed in or zoomed out. I suspect it has something to do with POV, not the origin distance. To make my old videos  look normal again I have to set POV to 120 or even 90 (only then the frame looks 180 degrees wide again). I will try to find a reliable way to reproduce the issue.

And one more feature idea - when you press that button that shows you a distance to an object in cm, would be useful to also display a protractor sphere type gizmo that shows angles in all directions. This way you can tell if a video that's supposed to be 180 degrees wide is actually appearing as 180 or more like 220/140 degrees, so you can adjust the player settings accordingly.

Thanks.