Now that XBVR is up and running, there are a number of changes we can make to improve the experience.
#1: Prevent Windows Defender from scanning XBVR
If XBVR is running fine, I would recommend skipping this step. This will speed up XBVR scrapes/scans significantly (and reduce resource usage on your PC), but you will be disabling Windows Defender protection on XBVR’s application and files. Weigh the risks and decide if this is important to you.
- Click on the “Windows Security” (Shield) icon on the lower-right section of your taskbar (You may need to use the “^” to show hidden icons)
- Click “Virus & Threat Protection”
- Scroll down to “Virus & threat protection settings” and click “Manage Settings”
- Scroll down to “Exclusions” and click “Add or remove exclusions”
- Click “Add an exclusion” → Choose Folder and enter your XBVR Cache Path (C:\Users\your-username\AppData\Roaming\xbvr)
- Click “Add an exclusion” → Choose Process exclusion and enter “XBVR” (without quotes)
#2: Disable DLNA
XBVR Comes with a DLNA server pre-enabled. This broadcasts within your network and will show up easily for others. It is entirely unnecessary if you use HereSphere or DeoVR so I would recommend disabling it, unless you live alone or don’t care who might stumble on your collection.
- Go to Options (top menu) → DLNA (left menu)
- Toggle “Enabled” to off
- Click “Save and apply changes”
#3: Generate Previews for your Videos
This one is a “Killer Feature” for XBVR. You can have preview play (Both in-browser and in-headset) when you put your cursor over a video. If you have a sizeable library this will take a LONG time. You can still use your PC while it runs, otherwise start preview generation before going to bed/away for the day.
- Go to Options (top menu) → Previews (left menu)
- Customize preview settings (I chose 10x 1.2 second snippets starting at 15seconds, with a resolution of 480px. Adjust to your taste)
- Click “Test settings”
- After a few moments, an example preview will be shown. If you are satisfied click “Save settings”, otherwise adjust and test again
- Click “Start generating previews”
#4: Set up your Watchlist/Favorites/Wish/Custom Lists
These lists can be used to quickly access your scenes in a Browser/Headset. Watchlist and Favorites will automatically appear in the headset view, you can select whether or not other custom lists will be.
- Go to Scenes (top menu)
- Click on the Watchlist (calendar) icon for scenes you want to queue
- Click on the Favorite (heart) icon for scenes you want to revisit
- Create custom lists (Searches) for easier browsing
Custom List Examples:
Name: Watched / Sort By: Watched Date (Descending) / Show in Headset: No / Purpose: Rating scenes recently watched/Removing from watchlist
Name: New Scripts / Properties: Scripted / Watched: No / Show in Headset: Yes / Purpose: Scripted Scenes not yet watched
Name: Asian / Properties: Scripted / Tags: Asian, Asian Female / Show in Headset: Yes / Purpose: Scenes with Asian Girls
#5: Set up Scheduled Tasks
Scheduled Tasks will update your media library, previews and data scraped from VR sites.
- Go to Options (top menu) → Task Schedules (left menu)
- Rescrape: This can use a lot of resources so set it to run at a time of day where your PC will be idle. My settings are: “Every 23 hours”, “Time of day: 02:00-06:00”, “Start 30 minutes past the hour”, “Do not run at startup”
- Rescan: This scans your folders for new Videos/Scripts. I personally run this on the same schedule as Rescrape, but if you don’t want to wait overnight for files to be scanned, or manually scan when adding files, you can use a more aggressive schedule here (hourly, etc.)
- Preview Generation: Same schedule as above
- Actor/Stashdb Rescrape: No Schedule
#6: Enable Heatmaps in headset view
This will show heatmap previews in the headset browser.
- Go to Options (top menu) → Players (left menu)
- Enable “Enabled” under “Funscript Heatmaps”
- Click “Save and apply changes”
#7 Enable Heresphere / DeoVR Advanced Options
- Go to Options (top menu) → Players (left menu)
- For DeoVR:
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- Main tab: Enable “Watch time tracking”
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- DeoVR Tab: Enable “Remote Mode” (and turn on in DeoVR app in headset)
- For Heresphere:
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- Heresphere Tab: Enable “Allow Ratings Updates”, “Allow Favorite Updates”,“Allow Tag Updates”, “Allow Watchlist Updates” and “Allow Saving Hsp Files”
- Click “Save and apply changes”
#1: Shut down XBVR
You can optionally shut down XBVR when not in use.
- Locate the XBVR icon in your system tray (lower-right area of the taskbar)
- Right-click and Quit
#2: Rate and Favorite your scenes
There is an automatic “Favorites” category in the Headset view. Ratings can help you further narrow things down, search by star-rating, as well as providing a “Scene average Score” to performers. You can also rate performers on the “Actors” tab.
#3: Mark Videos Watched
You probably have lots of videos you have already watched, You can mark these videos as watched. Enable the “Watched” (eyeball) and you will be able to toggle “Watched” status for videos from the Scenes tab.
- Go to Options (top menu) → Web UI (left menu)
- Enable “show Toggle Watched Status button”
- Click “Save”
#4: Hide Duplicate Scenes from Scrapers
Some scenes are published to multiple sites. If you are getting a lot of duplicates, or want to match everything to a specific site (Say VRHush instead of VRPHub) click “Hide” (red eyeball with a slash) on unwanted duplicates to prevent them coming up in future searches
#5: Use Filters / Toggle the web view in-headset
If you want to access XBVR’s Web UI click the Player icon on the upper-left in Heresphere/Upper-right of DeoVR – using this you can set up custom lists/manage XBVR inside VR.