Are there any HereSphere users here?
For me its one of the best pieces of software in years. With the release of the Quest2 version i was finally able to ditch Pigasus.
Having my whole library with thumbnails, tags and search function in the player is just amazing. Scraping all my movies&mathcing them with that r18 scraper in XBVR was a lot of work though.
Other than that the customizations in this player are huge, so it could be quite overwhelming. Luckily JAV are mostly alligned pretty well, so i mostly just do some general settings.
1. Set IPD
Either set it to autodetect or select the IPD manually
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2. Set the IPD of the camera
Western VRporn is mostly filmed with Zcam K1/K2 so the IPD of these cameras is 65mm. Japanese studios on the other hand are using 2 cameras (Panasonic GH5S) they are aligned and synced (behind the scene can be found here
). Due to that the IPD of these cameras is bigger therefore make people appear a bit smaller in JAV.
The cameras IPD can be set in HeresSphere by setting the Camera Stereo Alignment - Right value. Its preset to 6.5.
I was trying to figure out what the correct camera IPD settings in JAV movies is. That stereo rig used has a minimum ipd of 75mm, while measuring the Panasonic GH5s by high quality photos, for this set the IPD is around 78/79mm. So i usually set the value to 7.5 and gradually increase in case it doesnt look right (.>too small).
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3. Color corrections
For me having colors that look "real" do a lot to me to improve immersion. I find that most of the JAV are oversaturated with the skin look almost red. In Pigasus i was mostly reducing the saturation a lot. For me the skin color was looking much more realistic, but somehow it led to all colors looking flat.
Fortunately Heresphere allows more in depth adjustment of the colors. This screenshot is from the SteamVR release, unfortunately a lot of these adjustments are not possible on the quest.
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Instead of reducing the overall saturation of the colors (Saturation A) i was playing with the 'Saturation R' value. Unfortunately i leds easily to the skins looking a little greenish. I would be happy to hear from somebody who could give me some guidance on the color settings