Kendrick Thomas of HoloFilm Productions
demonstrates the use of virtual reality hardware for consuming
pornography on January 20, 2016, in Las Vegas (Photo credit John M.
Glionna/AFP/Getty Images).
In any industry, keeping well abreast of new tech is pivotal to
staying on top of tomorrow’s markets, and one new collaboration between
futuristic medium and media hub aims to help make digital pornography as
stimulating as the real thing in the coming years–virtually so, that
is.
As of yesterday, virtual-reality film company BadoinkVR is offering
free versions of its sexy simulations in partnership with Pornhub, one
of the adult entertainment industry’s foremost hot-spots for finding
both free and paid (but mostly free) content. The
new channel features videos specially f
ilmed for 3D viewing with an Oculus Rift, cardboard-a la-Google GOOGL -0.34%, or other VR headset, and will reportedly ”have
lots of full 360-degree content, so you really feel like you’re in some
San Bernardino McMansion having sex with a stranger,”
Gizmodo notes.
Pornhub Vice President Corey Price explained,
At Pornhub it is our duty to provide our global audience with
the latest in cutting edge technology … Now, our users are not only able
to view our content, but be protagonists in the experience and interact
with their favorite porn stars [...and] users’ wildest fantasies will
come alive as they slip into a world of heightened titillation.
At present, the collection of films is strongly geared toward a
broad, heterosexual male audience, including a certain consistent
one-sided-ness to conversation and visible activity (i.e. male
performers should be barely seen and definitely not heard) that is
preferred by most viewers, according to BaDoinkVR’s content manager
Dinorah Hernandez. She told
The Guardian, “People are requesting less sexual positions and more eye contact and dirty talk and being close to the camera.”
To promote the new extra-immersive content, Pornhub is giving away
10,000 Google Cardboard-style headsets to new registrants. Videos can be
perused via an Oculus Rift app and, rather more traditionally, by
browser, iOS, and Android, too, though such users may find blurrier
views and “the female actress [looking] like a giant,” Gizmodo says. If
VR-porn-makers keep plugging away at their craft and the folks behind
Frixion
and other teledildonics teams can get their wires uncrossed, however,
the near future of digitally enhanced ‘alone time’ may be, as Price
says, “mesmeric” indeed.
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