Add Sharpness Adjustment - PLEASE !!!

boboweb

Hello DeoVR devs , i have Oculus Quest 2 and as maybe most of you already know the picture of this headset is little on the soft side even when you look 8K 180 VR videos with 80 mbits bitrate (some can name it even blurry) . Recently i have been tried Whirligig VR player and I set "Sharp Size" - 0.01 and "Sharp Intenc" - 0.30 and LOL the picture on my Quest 2 looks so much better now ! It looks like different headset now ! I think many of Quest 2 owners will be really grateful if you add such sharpness settings in DeoVR player too ! I am even ready to pay for some "Pro" version that have this option !

Thank you in advance

Greetings

boboweb

Hello is there any progress about this request ?

Yar

Hello!
Yes, we are discussing this question with the development team, but we cannot give you a quick answer. Don't worry, we are constantly busy with quality improvements.
Follow our updates!

boboweb

OK , thanks for the response i am still waiting for the update that will include the sharpness adjustment !

boboweb

Hello again DeoVR support team - we still waiting for this Sharpness setting to be added for us Quest users too . Can you tell us when we could expect this ?

Yar

Hi!
At the moment, we are working on a major update, all forces are focused on this. In addition to improvements and updates, we also fix bugs. This also takes a long time.
We would be happy to do everything at once. Unfortunately, this does not happen.
Hope for your understanding...

cmaniac

i would also be very happy if sharpness will be added in the future

boboweb

Hello Devs , any progress about this very old request already ?

boboweb

Thanks for adding that sharpness settings - the PQ on Quest2 is MUCH MUCH better now! Is there any reason if it is set even at just 0.5 the framerate always to drops from 120 to 60 - no matter the video ? I know it loads the VR set GPU but it strange always drops to exactly to 60 not to 70 or 40 for example ... Can you check this please ?

tari

Hi, is this functionality already implemented? I have seen the setting in past releases but now cannot see it in 10.1.

It was quite helpful as some of the videos are too blurry by default so I used it often.

donedtwo

i second that tari is saying. i loved the sharpen feature - but it´s gone with 10.1
i´d like to see it come back ;-)

boboweb

donedtwo

Just go to DeoVR => Settings => Developer and enable the "Dynamic mesh"
Then the sharpness slider will apper in the image control settings . It took me a half of a day to find that out ...

Unfortunately if make any adjustment at the sharpness the framerate still drops from 120 to 60 fps ... It drops even more if adjust Hue and Saturation - then goes under 40fps for 8K vids ... Bad software optimisation i guess ...

philpw99

Or you can use fholger's excellent FSR modded openvr_api.dll
Not only you can boost the frame rate, scale up the rendered image, you can also set the sharpness.
For my GTX1080, I use NIS to scale up the image (2x). The effect is better picture and color with similar frame rate.
Give it a try, you will like it.
https://github.com/fholger/openvr_fsr

The other plugin developed by fholger, openvr_foveated. Doesn't do any improvement, and the frame rate drops. So I don't recommend it. Maybe someone else find it useful for his own case.
https://github.com/fholger/openvr_foveated
It also comes with sharpness feature.

boboweb

philpw99
Thanks for sharing this Phil i will give it a try . But here the topic is about the Quest Store version of DeoVR .
What VR headset do you use and what are your main settings in "openvr_mod.cfg" file for best results ?

wisetext

philpw99
Have you tested fholger's vrperfkit mod by any chance? Wondering if it works better.

He wrote:

I am working on a new project that supercedes this mod. It supports the same upscaling methods as this mod, but in addition also works with the Oculus runtime and will eventually add additional performance enhancement tools. As a consequence, this project is in maintenance mode, and I encourage you to check out the new project: VR Performance Toolkit

This is a nice GUI to manage the OpenVR FSR and VRPerfKit mods:
https://github.com/tappi287/openvr_fsr_app

philpw99

boboweb
I set the scale to 0.5 (2x). It works well especially for the low resolution 2048p VR videos, because they are scaled up nicely by this plugin.
I also set the "Alt" as the required key to enable/disable the effects. So when I am playing a high-resolution 3840p video I can disable the scaling with Alt-F1.
Other settings remain the same. Can't say this is the best, but it works for me.
I am using a Pimax 5k super.

boboweb

Ahh ok thanks ! Honestly i never bothered with anything under 5-6K ... 😉

philpw99

wisetext
I am waiting for Nvidia's Super Resolution for Video next month.
It uses AI to scale up 1080p videos to 4k.
I actually want it to scale up 4k videos to 8k.
Compare to that the FSR is not so impressive.

boboweb

philpw99

Yeah - i am waiting for the same - this is the future !

bigdrizzy

philpw99 hi pal,whats happening with Nvidia's Super Resolution for Video ?
is deo going to support it,or will we need to mess with something ?
im in the dark, cant find owt about it, ta

philpw99

bigdrizzy
A little more update from PC gamer, that the new AI tool will upscale videos between 360p to 1440p.
So for now it seems it cannot upscale 4k video to 8k, but it surly can upscale many 1080p 3D video to 4k, at a much faster rate than the regular AI upscale tools.
I do have a small collection of 1080p 3D videos that needs to be upscale this way. So it's good news anyway.
Meanwhile I am using the "regular" AI tool to upscale Avatar 3D 1 from 1080p to 8k. It'll need 271 hours.