HereSphere VR Video Player for Quest 2/Pro/3 supports Handy, Keon, Launch and Passthrough

Thanks for the response.

  1. I play everything over SMB. I don’t store any videos or scripts on my headset.

  2. All of the videos are still in their original location. I did not move them and they were not deleted. This actually happened at some point while I was using Heresphere. Everything was working fine, and then there just were no playlists. I don’t think the app even crashed or anything.

Sounds like the save system messed up. I don’t think the data is recoverable, so you’ll need to reinstall HereSphere to reset it. I think there’s an issue with the app saving data in the background thread, like some sort of race condition, though I haven’t been able to replicate the bug. I’m rewriting the save code for the UE5 update, so hopefully this won’t happen in the future.

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I uninstalled, then reinstalled the latest version, but I still can’t create playlists unless they’re pretty small.

How many playlist items can you add before you get the issue? Does the issue only occur when adding items from multiple directories? I’m thinking it could be an issue with the app needing to check whether the playlist item exists, forcing it open a bunch of smb connections when different directories/shares are needed. I’ll do some testing on my end. Have you considered using XBVR to organize your library instead? They provide tags as well, so you can just use the tag search function to create playlists on the fly.

Well yesterday, and just generally speaking, it would crash when trying to add any folder with about 30 to 50 videos. Today I was able to add a folder with about 270 videos which is much more than I’ve been able to add previously. :man_shrugging: However, I then repeatedly tried to add a different folder with about 250 videos with no success. :man_shrugging: I would like to give you a more definitive answer by clicking on individual folders one by one until I find the magic number that’s causing the problem, but the issue I have is that my hands are not steady enough to click all the little toggles (even just selecting the correct video can be a challenge for me sometimes). Inevitably I accidently click on a folder, which of course opens it up, and then when I go back everything is deselected so I have to start over. This is why it would be an enormous quality of life improvement for me to be able to select one main folder, shuffle play, and then I can use the buttons on the controller to skip if I need to.

All of my videos and scripts are kept in their own folder by the way. So I have one folder that I’m sharing over SMB called “Funscripts.” That folder then has several sub folders for broad categories. For instance “PMVs” which I would love to just select and play on shuffle. Each pmv has their own folder. There are also a couple of folders for sub categories within the PMV folder.

I’ve tried XBVR, but I can’t use it because it requires me to keep my scripts in the interactive folder and I don’t keep any porn on my headset.

XBVR doesn’t require you to put the scripts in the interactive folder. You just need to match the script to the scene in the XBVR UI.

Currently, adding SMB folders to playlists takes a long time. The app has to search for hsp files for each video, and it can’t be done in a background thread. This causes the app to hang for too long and crash. I need to redesign the database in HereSphere to be able to handle adding items in a background thread. This will be fixed with the big UE5 update.

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Thank you for taking my issues into consideration. I look forward to the update!

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@HereSphere any update on Keon functionality?

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Sorry for the delayed response. Working on adding bluetooth capabilities right now. Just got the FL Launch to work. The Keon uses a similar protocol, though there are some slight differences, so I’ll try to figure it out tomorrow. It should probably take 1-2 weeks to polish, so look for an update soon. Also, if any devs have tips on how to calculate the correct speed parameters for smooth and accurate motion, that’d be appreciated. It’d be faster if I didn’t have to rediscover all of the best practices for controlling Kiiroo devices.

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Can’t wait to try the Launch straight off the Quest 2.

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I’ve got a seperate porn profile set up on Heresphere. Out of nowhere it just decided to copy everything from my porny-porn-porn profile to the default profile. Everything including smb folders, web links, playlists… so… YIKES! :grimacing:

Also still having the same issues with creating playlists after the new update.

Thanks for reporting the issue. Can you verify that the “Remember Last Profile” toggle in the user settings isn’t enabled? It’s also possible that the crashes caused by the playlist creation is messing up the saved data. The playlist creation issue will be fixed with the big UE5 update, since it requires changing how data is stored in HereSphere and better thread management.

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“Remember Last Profile” is definitely not enabled.

I believe this happened after attempting, unsuccessfully, to create several new playlists so I guess this makes sense. Looking forward to the big UE5 update even more now lol. :laughing:

Anyone know how to properly name eroscript files to support streaming from POVR? i can’t find any naming conventions for their streaming videos so that eroscripts work

The interactive content on POVR is stream only, I believe, so running scripts while watching streamed content isn’t going to work.

Only other option is to download the scene, then rename the script that you have. I generally copy the full name of the scene, and paste it onto the funscript, replacing the original title.

I suppose I can make it so the player will look in the fallback script directory for a script with the same title as a streamed video (shown in the seekbar when you play a video). Since some titles contain illegal file characters, the player would have to remove them before looking for the file, which complicates things. I’ll also add a method for manually selecting script files in the future.

POVR also supports streaming scripts using Connect and Control. Here’s a link on how to get it work with HereSphere: Connect and Control (only the Handy works right now, but they’re working on bluetooth devices as well). Since HereSphere is also adding support for bluetooth devices in the near future, they’re also considering providing direct script access to HereSphere, so the player can handle controlling the devices instead of a third party app.

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@HereSphere Any update to the addition of DLNA? Thank you in advance!!

I’ll begin working on it later this week. Still finishing up the bluetooth haptics update.

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As long as the name of the script is identical to the video name in the seekbar it works fine. I’ve been using it for multiple sites.

Yeah, after checking my code again, the player already looks for the script in the fallback directory if a script isn’t supplied by the website. However, there could be an issue if the title contains invalid filename characters, like /?:&\*"<>|%#@^. The next update will remove those invalid characters from the title before searching in the fallback script directory, since the operating system won’t allow you to rename your file using those characters.