
According to Paul there are two other, smaller companies currently working on porn VR, but they have neither Naughty America’s stable of star power or market penetration. VR videos can be accessed as part of the standard monthly site membership. It launched in July, and new content rolls out at a rate of roughly one video per week. Not just a distant concept, this glorious future of immersive smut is available now - six months ago, in fact. Warning: The following trailer isn’t explicit, but you probably still don’t want your boss to see you watching it. Paul certainly sees VR as a sea change for the industry: “The entire history of porn has been trying by whatever means available to arrive at this type of experience, and now it’s here.

Porn is already a $3.3 billion annual industry, ravenously expanding to fill all channels available. While gaming has driven the initial advances in VR technology, porn’s popularity and obvious synergy with the medium will likely make it an important factor for many people getting on board.
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When asked about the possibility of same-sex content, Paul mentioned 360-degree views as something coming down the pipe that would help enable it, allowing for full immersion in a virtual bacchanal. As a starting point, it’s very convincing, and it will only improve. As for how they are filmed, “a combination of off-the-shelf and custom parts” is as specific as Naughty America CIO Ian Paul told me. My demonstration was on a Samsung Gear VR, but the videos are compatible with virtually any headset on the market now, from the humble Google Cardboard up to a fancy Oculus Rift.

In addition to opening up whole new avenues of kink, the ability to viscerally inhabit bodies unlike our own has compelling implications for how VR experiences could be used to cultivate empathy. Inhabiting a female form, mounted by a musclebound stud is far afield from my typical sexual experience. For me, the female perspective video was perhaps the most interesting, because it offered me a kind of out-of-body experience I have never had before. I watched compilation demo reels from both the male and female perspective.

It’s startling to encounter them at true, human scale - sweaty, doubly-artificial breasts bobbing inches from your face.Īll of the content is heterosexual, mainstream porn, in line with the site’s predominant user-base, with the promise of greater diversity and more genre representation as the VR market grows. Unless you watch on a very large screen, people in porn videos are almost always quite small, relatively speaking. The sense of scale was perhaps the most striking part. Even having experienced a lot of virtual reality over the previous few days, my imagination could not prepare me porn calls upon very animal parts of the brain, so to encounter it in such a personal way is visceral. More than just being up close and personal with a POV video, VR porn is a different beast all its own. It’s difficult to communicate in writing just how jarring the experience was. You can focus on whatever you fancy, whether it’s down at the naughty bits, lovingly up into your virtual partner’s eyes, over into the corner of the room, trying to identify the books on the shelf. The filming process necessitates passivity, so your avatar never exerts itself more than a bit of light humping. Strip club rules apply, so it’s look, but don’t touch (however much it really does feel like you could). Looking down, you see your toned, virtual body, sitting or lying back passively as sex happens all up on you. You can look around freely for 180-degrees in front of you, the room just ending in a hard black plane around the periphery of your vision. You find yourself in a room, unable to move. POV (point of view) is already a major keyword in online porn, but VR takes the genre to a whole new level.

I tried virtual pornography last week in a hotel room cocktail party at CES. It should come as no surprise then that here at the dawn of feasible, widespread virtual reality, leading porn producer Naughty America is ready with VR porn for the masses. Look back as far as ancient cave paintings and you can find sex it’s one of the first things we do with any new medium. Throughout the last few decades, the pornography industry has been an aggressive early adopter of emerging media technology, accelerating the general adoption of formats like VHS, DVD, and streaming video.
