Who wants 2D Conversions of VR vids?

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Yeah, some really close-up moments will probably look pretty distorted despite zooming out and everything, but I think most of it is very manageable.

So I see there seems to be quite the demand, even more than I would have anticipated.

A big question in my head is the unquestionable illegality of it all. The only way around that that I can think of would be to do it as a service for people, editing their files for them privately without publically sharing myself. What happens to the files afterwards would be none of my concern.

I could see myself doing that but if it’s not possible to do if for the benefit of the whole community, I’d have to find another reason to do it and I guess the only valid one would be money for that service :see_no_evil: :confused:

I know it sounds kinda shitty but I can’t think of another way to make it worthwhile. Any ideas?

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I actually have a code for a year subscription to Power Director if you want it. I got it for free but I use Davinci Resolve for any editing I have to do so I have no use for it.

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When I go through looking for new vids to watch Im always sad when I see the VR tag. I have wanted to play the cock hero ones but the “fish eye” experience is terrible. Also if the program your trying out is simple to use I would probably check it out.

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Thank you, that’s a great offer I would definitely pick you up on when - or if - we have found a solution for aforementioned problems…

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I have also had some excellent results using this Program

It allows you to track camera movements and views set key frames and transitions.
Highly Recommend.

I forgot to mention…It is OpenSource and FREE!

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Okay, as I have not heard any other ideas or opposing voices yet, I want to offer the following service as a test run:

  • I will convert your VR scene to 2D
  • This means you’ll privately send me a scene and I’ll privately send it back to you converted. What you do with it is your thing.
  • As mentioned, given that this is not a thing that directly benefits the whole community and that it takes quite a bit of time, I require a compensation to make it not a total waste on my part. I thought about $1 per minute of video for this first test.

Please note this is not a lucrative business for me at all. If there is actual demand which I kinda doubt, I will probably not be able to offer it at that price for long. Maybe money pooling like the VR scripting discord could be an interesting thing to explore.

If anyone else wants to do this and is fine with doing it for free, please go ahead. I’m not in this for the money as I have way better ways to earn, I just can’t see myself spending these amounts of time given the aforementioned circumstances.

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You could make a detailed tutorial on how to do it. For people who find it too much work or don’t understand it can then use your service. I wouldn’t think of anything else right now.

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You would be much better off doing this on a Bounty Basis. Not sure if this site would be the place to run that (OnlyFans sounds like the ideal place) but the idea is simple and similar to the Script Request Forum.

Someone posts a link to the Video to be converted. Other can tip or post a bounty towards doing that clip. Then you can choose the clips that have the most support in tips. Set Minimum Target price if you like.

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Here is the Documentation for VR2Normal. It is pretty easy to use.

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Probably, yes. Question is where. A discord? How to get a sufficing amount people on there?

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I would ask the owner of Eroscripts first if that is something they are open to supporting.

Discord would be good for keeping you out of any DCMA problems since you would probably have to share clips with the scripts.

Kickstarter type site is the ideal kind of place since it does all the accounting for you including any refunds to requests that you decide not to do.

It’s easy to set up the bounty part, The Collection (once done) and Refunding (when needed) is the hard part.

Getting people there would not be hard since that could easily be done with posts in the Request Section here.

But I would check with the powers that be here. They might be open to adding this as a feature of this site.

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There is an app for android called theta+ that allows to convert VR to 2D, i have used it with nice results, but seems that not accepting high resolutions, 5k, 6k, etc. (or maybe is the limitation of my device), but if you guys want to play Vr videos in 2D i recommend GoPro VR Player (kolor eyes player), it allows zoom and panning, and different types of projections, its an old player, but still works fine for this.

Theta+ app:

GoPro VR player:
https://download.kolor.com/ked/stable/history

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Good morning,

Indeed such software would be a marvel, provided that it does the job well, that the rendering is acceptable and above all viewable.
I tested several free ones online, the result makes you vomit…

As several people said above, VR has taken over and it’s frustrating, many videos look attractive but impossible to watch.

I used to stop by every morning to see what’s new, now I only stop by 2 or 3 times a week.
If I take an average of what I see every day there are between 20 and 25 new scripts posted.
Of these 25 there must be 15 VR scripts (which I eliminate for lack of material), 3 paid scripts (which I eliminate), 3 PMV scripts (which I eliminate because
personally don’t suit me, that’s not what I’m looking for) 3 animation scripts (which I eliminate, I still don’t understand how you can get excited and enjoy while watching a cartoon), and 1 “classic” script "(a man and a woman who give each other pleasure) which I will be interested in.
Moreover, this survey is explicit:

So actually the “2D” find their happiness less and less easily while there are more and more new scripts.

So yes an easy to use tool to turn VR into 2D would be great, provided you get an acceptable result.

Afterwards, there would also remain the problem of files, most VR videos are hosted on paid subscription sites!!
(SLR, BaDoinkVR, VRBangers, WankzVR, 18VR etc…)

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The main issue with VR is the headset and its support.

If you dont want facebook, there are no alternatives that are cheap. And there is a good reason to avoid facebook. Im not going to spend 1000 euros for something im barely going to use (purely for porn is not enough to justify that price). Allowing any phone with a gyroscope would be ideal here.

And with that i would just use a player on the phone and have that synched with MPC-HC, MPV or whatever video player you use on the pc. But support here is almost non existing. Sure, if you have a samsung phone (which not everyone has, especialy since the VR capable ones are generaly expensive), you can somewhat work around it, but even there, synchronization is limited.

And for VR players on phones, spending money without knowing if it works is a bad idea. They might play VR fine, but without synchronization, its not usefull. Sure, some might also have the content included in the player, and have decent synching. But again, you have to pay money for trying that to begin with. Having some sort of trial videos to at least test functionality would be welcome (and they dont even need to be porn videos, just a good indication to check if the VR part works and a good indication of device movement etc would be enough for a video).

And yes, some phones might not have good detection for moving your head. But usualy that doesnt realy matter. a 360 (or 180) degrees view is often more than enough. Its at least a good step for people to get into VR. Even static SBS videos without rotation can already make a diffirence just because you see depth.

But even using a 3rd party platform isnt enough when you want to script for VR yourself. In that case you just cant get around a direct connection with your pc.

(also, from my experience, if you set the video to a single eye, you end up with a fisheye effect, but zooming in does resolve that quite decently. A lot of VR videos are basicly depending on that very similar window so small distortions are often not going to be an issue. But again, limited support for these things makes most players unable to handle this)

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Why not? I script for VR in OFS and have no connection to anything else while doing that. Once I’m done I export the script and test it in the same way as if I downloaded a VR video script from ES, i.e. the normal use case.

In OFS you can change to VR video mode and thereby have the projection changed into an almost flat view (based on one eye). You can zoom and change the view direction to find a suitable angle for scripting.

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deovr player for android allows you to communicate with scriptplayer on your computer.
this way you just download the video to your phone and watch it through deovr, and add the necessary script to the scriptplayer

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While making the script its not needed, but as usual, you want to test your script. And for VR, thats best done with some VR support (being able to see the action, even if its fisheye is fine).
Maybe i havent figured out to display those videos properly and face limitations there.

Except i cannot find that one in the playstore, and the site of deovr also doesnt have a link toward it.

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I downloaded the application from a third-party source, it is quite easy to find it on the first links in the search

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We did it back in the days but it was never good because it’s shot differently.

SexLikeReal can provide you all the help to make it work.

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how long does it take you to convert it to the final 2D product? It’s so slow it takes me 3 hours to render this with my Ryzen 5 3600 and RTX 3070