JAV VR: News, comments about releases, recommendations, hardware

[Walle12]

Hello @NaughtyProfessor , and welcome to the thread...

The scaling slider is the biggest quality of life improvement. If she looks magnified you can shrink her down to her usual petite life-like size.

I completely agree. Without HereSphere's scale adjustment for me many movies would be unwatchable.

I use Topaz Video AI to upscale and frame interpolate 4k content.

Curiously enough, I started testing a few days ago and I'm very happy with the results, to the point that I'm considering buying it, even though it's worth 300 euros / dollars...

 

[Walle12]

Close to the camera and 'you' are taller than the girl and she looks up to you. I hate it when the girl leans down like you are some 8 year old or a midget or whatnot. Breaks the immersion and suprisingly even the premium studios/creators often shoot it like that.

Very true, that happens often and at VRKM they do it well.

How would you compare the quality of Topaz AI on 4k compared to the normal Fanza 8k release? And it seems expensive or is it possible to use the free version for the upscaling?

Thanks to @Tana_vak , who discovered it for me a few days ago when he posted it here on the thread, I have been testing Topaz Video AI for a few days with the free version and I AM SHOCKED.
The free version is full featured and lets you convert large videos, but it adds a huge watermark in the center of the screen. It's useless to watch, but it's good to see the improvements.
I'm testing rescaling 4K to 8K and it looks better than a Fanza 8K movie. Most important, it increases the definition, it increases the bitrate and removes the dirt from the image, you no longer see noise or blur in the middle distance. The key is to use little AI, if you overdo it, it looks artificial.

I'm doing crazy tests, with bitrate at 180 Mbps, and the difference with Fanza is brutal.

The problem is that a 4K/ 8K image is dozens of millions of pixels, 60 times per second, and requires a lot of hardware to process. With my RTX 4070 Ti Super and a powerful AI model like Artemis or Rhea one minute of video takes 1 hour to process. So a 25 minute scene, is a full day with the computer running at 100%. But to those of us who are sensitive to image glitches, like you and me, I tell you it's worth it.... It costs 300 euros / dollars with one year of updates, but I'm almost sure I'll buy it...
When I have some time I'll talk more about it.

 

[Walle12]

@chewbaka , I've watched the trailer of SIVR-405 with Sakakibara Moe and it's another movie with giant girls and giant heads, like Ibuki and Rena's VRs... Another ruined movie...

 

[Itsabiggapepperoni]

So the newest Miru scene is pretty good, if you pretend the first two parts don't exist. The third part is a very immersive GFE scene with all the good angles, best I've seen of her in a while. I tried watching the threesome part, and its not that bad either, but fmm is just not my thing

 

[2dxxxisdead]

I have been testing Topaz Video AI for a few days with the free version and I AM SHOCKED.
The free version is full featured and lets you convert large videos, but it adds a huge watermark in the center of the screen. It's useless to watch, but it's good to see the improvements.

True, I have also just tried it and it is mindblowing. I thought it would look fake or artifical but this tool is really a gamer changer and improves the video quality massivly. It can both enhance older 4k titles but also to my surprise it improves low bitrate 8k FANZA releases and they look so much better with the AI.

I will experiment more with this tool and see how it goes. But so far it looks incredible.

 

[Walle12]

So the newest Miru scene is pretty good, if you pretend the first two parts don't exist. The third part is a very immersive GFE scene with all the good angles, best I've seen of her in a while. I tried watching the threesome part, and its not that bad either, but fmm is just not my thing

I haven't watched it yet, I'm waiting for someone to upload it to 8K. From the screenshots that third scene promises a lot. Unfortunately it's not a standalone scene, it looks like it continues from the previous ones and Miru is already naked. But well, that's something...

 

[Walle12]

True, I have also just tried it and it is mindblowing. I thought it would look fake or artifical but this tool is really a gamer changer and improves the video quality massivly.

If you do it right and find the right point to the AI settings, raising them a little to improve but not too much so that the image does not look artificial, the AI is not noticeable and, in return, you get more definition and, above all, goodbye to noise and blurring of the image. VRs that were still video, now look like real image. That's the most brutal change for me, because that's the most important thing in VR. Now i see girls in front of me, not a 3D video.

 

[NaughtyProfessor]

It can both enhance older 4k titles but also to my surprise it improves low bitrate 8k FANZA releases and they look so much better with the AI.

The nice thing about Topaz is they let you OWN the version you have. You get free updates for one year on a license and then you keep which ever version you have forever until you renew your license. Unfortunately mine is two years out of date and mine crashes when I try to open 8k video as it wasn't fully supported at the time. Next time it goes on sale I'll renew. In the meantime, if I want to clean up 8k I have to first handbrake it down to 6k and then let'er rip.

Another app that I have been playing with on a trial basis is "Owl3d". It turns 2D content into stereoscopic 3D. It might breathe new life into my favorite 2D adult movies if I can watch them in 3D from time to time. But that's a whole other time eating rabbit hole. I've got my hands full with VR as it is.

 

[Walle12]

Another app that I have been playing with on a trial basis is "Owl3d". It turns 2D content into stereoscopic 3D

I use Deep Desktop, which converts any 2D video into 3D for viewing in VR.... in real time! It's very impressive.