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Basic set up question Heresphere & XBVR

A topic by Lomomongo created 82 days ago Views: 1,870 Replies: 5

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Lomomongo82 days ago

Hi There,

so I am using the quest native demo version of heresphere (HS) to connect to XBVR on my PC. It works after a lot of fiddling with settings. However I need to set up some other servers like stash and I cannot work out how I set up XBVR.

Questions:-

1. are there any HS instructions on how to connect HS to XBVR?

2. on the XBVR help page it just says type in the IP address to the HS web browser, but this just shows a 2D web page and when you play a video it remains in 2D and doesn't fill the quest head set. how do you get HS to treat the IP address as a server?

3. somehow I now have XBVR showing as a media source in HS, but I cant remember how this happened? its the media server that works as it should for full immersion how do you set this up?

4. If someone could explain the above, would the same methods work for STASH and other servers?

many thanks.

HereSphereDeveloper82 days ago

Here are instructions to setup xbvr:

1. Download xbvr from here (make sure to select the correct one for your computer): https://github.com/xbapps/xbvr/releases

2. Run xbvr on your computer.

3. Launch your computer's web browser. Type in http://127.0.0.1:9999 to access the xbvr UI.

4. Go to xbvr options and add your folders with your videos.

5. Go to scrapers and add the sites that your videos came from.

6. After the scrapers finish running, go to files. Your videos and scripts should show up under matched. If they don't, go to unmatched, and then click on the match button, and select the correct scene for both your video and script.

7. Go back to xbvr options. Click on players. Make a note of the xbvr IP address, which probably starts with http://192. If you want to add the ability to delete files and sync data from HereSphere, click on the Heresphere tab, and then enable the corresponding toggles.

8. Launch HereSphere, go to the web browser, input the xbvr IP address from step 7 and press enter. If the page doesn't load, restart your devices like your router, PC, and headset. Press the web api button that looks like a play button on 4 tiles to the left of the input box. Alternatively, you can just append "/heresphere" onto the end of the xbvr IP address url.

9. Once the HereSphere web UI loads, click on a thumbnail to play the video. If you couldn't match some videos, click on the "unmatched" button near the top of the HereSphere web view UI.

To setup stash, you'll need to setup either stash-vr or the stash-vr-companion apps. Some of these require setting up a docker environment, which can be difficult to do. You can also just use DLNA, but that doesn't provide thumbnails, tags, or file deletion features.

Gaz32329 days ago

hi, I hope you are well. please can you help me?.
After doing Step 4 and step 5. After dragging the folders with the videos on to xbvr and then adding the scrapers and letting it finish running, there are no files showing up under matched or unmatched.

I am also able to use to do step 7 and 8 but there are no videos available to play in the native hereSphere app with quest 3. I only get pictures but that’s bout it. If you can help me to get this working I will appreciate it a great deal. I was also wondering are there any xbvr support over the phone where I pay for the service?.

HereSphereDeveloper29 days ago

Are you certain you're adding your folders correctly in step 4? For me, I have to manually type in the path of the folder, so something like:

C:\MyFolder\MyVideos

Then click on "Add new folder", and then make sure the folder is listed at the top, with the correct number of files. You might need to click on "Rescan all folders" near the top right.

Gaz32328 days ago

Hi. Thank you very much!. This has worked!.

I’ve been adding the video file folders the wrong way, been dragging them to add them. Even though some videos titles didn’t match, I’ll figure that out.

Trying to successfully use xbvr for a very long time, felt soo fed up that I wanted if any to hire a freelance tech support to set this up for me. Thank you again.

Please can you kindly advise me on?.

I have an rtx 4090 and a top end gaming PC and want the best image quality with HereSpherevr.

Which would be a better way for connecting the quest3 to the PC for best image quality with HereSpherevr?. Would image quality be better with a wired link connection using Streamvr HereSpherevr App or would it be better image quality by using the native HereSpherevr app on Quest3?. Basically is it better quality with a wired link or without wired link with a powerful PC.

Thank you soo much for your help.

HereSphereDeveloper27 days ago

When streaming PCVR to the Quest headset, the rendered image needs to be compressed, so this results in slightly worse image quality compared to the native Quest standalone app. The Quest standalone app also has better support for passthrough. On the other hand, PCVR has better codec support when using the DirectShow player backend with LAV filters. You might also get better framerate when using PCVR, since the RTX 4090 is much more powerful than the Quest3. I'd recommend testing both versions of the app with the free demo to see which you prefer.

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Basic set up question Heresphere & XBVR