Yeah, they removed their public DeoVR API from the website to prevent HereSphere from streaming their content. They want SLR users to use DeoVR or the SLR app instead.
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amazing will give this a try!
Yup this is pretty fucking stupid of SLR, reading the reddit comments too they’re pretty unaware of how to publicly speak
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They are definitely trying to form a monopoly. My hate towards them grows everyday.
Keep making moves to segregate themselves, then go on reddit (or here) and verbally abuse their customers. SLR is a terrible company.
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Just like Apple do and few complain about that unfortunately. I don’t like them for that very reason.
That might be a bit harsh. I would rather say that they lack PR skills and when business decisions backlash they don’t handle it well at all due to that. There is a reason for why companies have PR spoke persons, community managers and a customer case management organization. All these roles can put feelings aside and don’t take things personally. It is always harder to communicate when someone criticizes your work or your company.
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Possibly, but it’s not like it’s a limited issue, SLR have had community relations issues for years and continue to not change. A better company would realize it’s not good PR and put some measures in place. I get they are a small company without a PR department, but they should at least try and communicate nicer.
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I completely agree with you on that.
Thinking of buying your app. However, I find you’ve made it a bit to complex, having additional features etc. is great but it should try to provide the best experience out of the box. It took me awhile to work out the menus were toggles and you could toggle them all off. This wasn’t obvious as if you select advanced from basic it just selects it and unselects the basic. Its not obvious that clicking the advanced again would remove it. Its small things like this that increase the learning curve. The details about using autofocus on 120Hz, all seemed too hard, what does accuracy 10 or 11 mean? I’d suggest some kind of tuning wizard that can cycle through these options so I don’t have to try and understand, or remember these odd settings.
Don’t take this the wrong way, the app seems good but it also looks like a dev designed it, in the old days we called this a 707 screen, ie a lot of dials and too complex. I’m a dev so I know the urge to put all the knobs and dials but in VR, especially video I just want it to work 
(lazy I know but hey)
As much as I hate DeoVRs changes they did make a nice clean UI that was easy to navigate without having to read a manual. I’d think about a simple UI and an option to go advanced (though it shouldn’t be necessary; except for special things) if that’s what you want.
Though keep up the good work, likely still going to be a customer
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Hi, the player looks awsome. Any release date for the pc version? 
its been on PC. You can grab it on Steam
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Thank You!
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Is it possible to use this player to stream from the SLR site? And also to play the Naughty America scripts from hard drive (ie the scripts are hosted at handyfeeling.com) ? I’d love an all-in-one solution, I’ve been using SLR app for SLR and Whirlygig for NA, and it’s a bit annoying switching back and forth
See this post:
https://discuss.eroscripts.com/t/heresphere-vr-video-player-for-quest-2-has-native-script-support-for-the-handy/57962/165
Naughty America scripts are basically a form of copy protection mechanism so that shouldn’t be possible either.
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Ok thanks man. Hopefully one day there’ll be an all in one solution
HereSphere update v0.7.1 for the Quest 2 is now available with HereSphere API changes, quality of life improvements, and bug fixes. This update is necessary to stream content with the HereSphere API for sites like CzechVR and POVR.
HereSphere API:
- Fixed issue with script streaming.
- A synchronized peripherals icon will now be shown on thumbnails to indicate there are scripts associated with the video.
- Authentication tokens can now be used in place of username and password.
- A customizable web banner is available for sites to utilize.
Quality of life improvements:
- Tag searches enclosed in double quotes will now require an exact match. Tags that are selected in the categorized tags menu or video tags menu will be enclosed in quotes when added to the search or autoseek input boxes.
- Added the stereo alignment right setting to the basic video settings.
- Added “-180” and " 180" to file name detection
- Added “_FISHEYE190” to file name detection
- Fall back to alphabetical sort when items have equal sort values (like date added).
- Thumbnail image downloads will no longer cause performance hitches.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed issue with video preview thumbnails taking too many resources, which could prevent 8k videos from playing.
- Fixed issue with image thumbnails not being cleared from memory
- Fixed “Toggle Force Mono” keybinding
- Fixed issue with grip + thumbstick adjustments being allowed to exceed the min/max values of a number box or slider.
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Still trying out heresphere, it is good and I will buy once I know I won’t have to repurchase from the oculus store (although as others have said far too complicated).
I have been able to get smb working, and the handy working.
I still can’t figure out how to end a video and go back to my video list.
All my files with different video formats have names that allow deovr to open them and display them properly.
In heresphere, the file name detection does not seem to be working for me.
i.e. LR_180.mp4 TB_180.mp4 open incorrectly. and require me to set the format manually, and even that fails as the image is still not correct - weird scaling issues which none of the settings for video format address - I have tried all the various combinations.
The files I have with this extension work fine, MKX200.mp4
Any idea what I could be doing wrong?
I think this is related to that it requires an underscore too in the name (read the whole post here).
Underscores are needed for “LR” and “TB”, though I can add a check for a space or hyphen in addition to an underscore. HereSphere doesn’t have a dedicated screen for selecting videos. You just open up the menu and select a new video from the menu, or press the next icon/shortcut to load the next video in your list. This allows you to have a video playing in the background while browsing for a new video.
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Ok, I confirmed if I rename one file to “some name 180_TB.mp4” it is detected and works.
But I have way too many files to think about changing names. Hopefully this can be fixed as even the various video sites are not consistent with their naming conventions.
This is the format I use, but there are many other formats in use so I would suggest a more robust pattern matching should be employed.
“Some Name LR_180.mp4”
“Some Name TB_180.mp4”
“Some Name MKX200.mp4”
Thanks for your help.