There are three questions people tend to ask when virtual reality comes up in conversation.
“Will it make me sick?”, “When can I buy it?”, “Is there porn on it yet?”
Don’t get them wrong: People don’t necessarily want to watch VR porn themselves. (Though plenty might, and that’s fine too.) They’re simply curious about how it will adapt to this new format.
After all, porn has always been on the cutting edge of technological innovation. Ask almost anyone why VHS beat Betamax for home video supremacy way back when, and most will point out that the adult entertainment industry favored the former over the latter.
Since then, porn has been attributed with helping to push everything from streaming video to easy payment systems into the mainstream — pioneering those newfangled ideas in the mid-’90s to early 2000s, long before they became ubiquitous.
Virtual reality, though, may present its biggest challenge yet. The technology is having the most public beta test possible right now; all kinds of people — game developers, filmmakers, the usual marketing rabble — are trying to figure exactly how to strike gold inside the virtual space.
VR dominated the conversation at SXSW, CES and even Sundance — but most of what was on display amounted to flashy demos. There isn’t yet one killer VR app.
And there also aren’t enough people who can really take advantage of the VR movies and games that do exist. Two of the industry’s three most powerful VR headsets — the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive — are currently for sale, but preorders are backed up for months. Oculus also created the mobile-phone powered Gear VR with Samsung, but its power is limited compared to its full-grown cousin.
Sure, you can always slap most smartphones inside a Google Cardboard for less than $10 — but that’s a limited experience that proves you truly get what you pay for. And in any case, many virtual reality porn purveyors want the experience to extend beyond headsets — into more experimental tech that adds touch to the experience.
What makes VR porn so appealing, even in its limited scope, is the potential feeling of being in a movie. Virtual reality makers throw around the term “presence” — really tricking your brain into believing you’re inside the experience. Done right, VR can offer adult entertainment an extra level of realism. Using it, you won’t just watch your fantasy on a monitor — you’ll be in it.
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Source: Mashable