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Porn Industry Tiptoes Into 3D Video
itwbennett writes "The 3D porn experience is coming (eventually) to a home theater near you. Most adult filmmakers are moving slowly toward 3D video because of higher production cost, the small number of 3D TVs in the home, and, of course, the glasses. Rob Smith, director of operations at Hustler Video Group says he hopes that market penetration of 3D TVs in the home is high enough that 'by the fourth quarter of this year it will be at the point where we can justify doing a 3D product.' The average adult movie costs around $25,000 to $40,000 to make, and 3D movies cost about 30% more, says Ali Joone, founder of Digital Playground. But Joone thinks the biggest hurdle for 3D isn't so much the cost as the glasses: people don't want to be encumbered by eyewear when viewing a film, says Joone."
hehe, he said "penetration"!
Think of the "money" shot...shudder.
Isn't that what his whole industry is based on?
(Read 'market' as a verb).
But Joone thinks the biggest hurdle for 3D isn't so much the cost as the glasses: people don't want to be encumbered by eyewear when viewing a film, says Joone
That's certainly what people fear most: getting caught wearing glasses while watching porn.
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1969's The Stewardesses ("See the lusty stewardesses leap from the screen to your lap") "is the most profitable 3-D film in history" (Avatar may now have beaten it).
In POV porn.
And here I thought that Double D was more than enough.
Like "Porn Industry Vigorously Enters 3D Video Market"
Or maybe timothy has a foot fetish?
people don't want to be encumbered by eyewear when viewing a film
I watched a whole porno crosseyed , you insensitive clod! Glasses are a small price to pay for a larger picture and less eyestrain...
Who in their right mind would actually buy a 3D tv that required you to wear glasses while viewing. That's absurd.
The need for glasses with straps holding them to your head would be a requirement.
You know.. with all that shaking going on the glasses will come right off.
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Surely people who watch porn regularly will already need glasses
I'd have said the same thing before going to "Avatar" in 3d. The usual litany of anti-3d excuses would apply:
I think this is mostly due to hollywood/tech companies chasing the holy grail of 3d for a long time. Many, many vendors have sold products based on claims of "true 3d images" including some spectacularly bad products like the virtual boy or NVidia's attempt at 3d with LCD shutter glasses.
But with the current crop of tech, they've finally made it useable. The glasses I used actually improved the colors, and the film was bright enough not to notice the slight darkening due to the glasses.
After the first 15 minutes of viewing Avatar with the dark glasses (RealD 3D) on, I wouldn't want to watch it any other way.
If you haven't seen Avatar in 3D, do so. Very worth it, and I hope other films are made that way soon. I actually made a joke about wanting to see a 3D porn film on the way out of the theater ("we'd be ducking every time the male lead stood up facing the screen").
Erik
porn stars don't like guys wearing silly 3D glasses. project onto one back screen and one semitransparent front screen, and put the 3D in the theater, not the cranium.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Rob Smith, director of operations at Hustler Video Group says he hopes that market penetration of 3D TVs in the home is high enough that 'by the fourth quarter of this year it will be at the point where we can justify doing a 3D product.
WTF kind of retard is Rob Smith?! Even your average Slashdot user knows that penetration is measured in terms of depth, not height. The irony of it is that Rob Smith has probably had more pussy than the entire Slashdot userbase put together. *sigh*
Fuck, let's slashdot Hustler!
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You have to separate the two screens for your eyes. Otherwise, you just see double.
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That wouldn't give proper 3d though - just a separation of foreground and background....
I think that would look a lot like these:
http://www.theamssite.com/images/viewfinder.jpg
I think people want more from 3D than just two 2D images separated by space.
lol, the CAPTCHA disagrees with me: nonsense
Does anyone really want Peter North cumming at them in 3D?
Between a normal tv and a 3d tv (that you have to watch with 3d glasses)
Exception Duck - may or may not contain chicken.
What no porn?
+5, Insightful!
why would it cost a massive 30% more to make porn in 3D?
Apart from the initial investment in a stereoscopic camera, isn't every other production cost the same? Especially if you're using digital not film. I mean its not like you need to cut/splice the left and right eye-tracks differently.
Forget about the cost of popcorn and soda... The biggest ripoff in the theater today are the 3D glasses. You have to buy them EVERY time. Even when you watch the same film twice! Getting a pair of 3D glasses is no problem... As for being seen wearing them, is that really an issue? People get off smelling and licking dirty feet! A pair of 3D glasses will probably just add to the turn on and sex-with-3D-glasses-on will become another fetish.
I want 3D boobies!
Why are they tiptoeing, I say "tally-ho, brave porn providers".
Speaking of money shots, why is it currently in vogue to finish all sex scenes by having the man ejaculate in the mouth and all over the face of the woman?
Does anyone find this a turn-on? To me, it's gross and degrading. I love looking at nekkid women, but I'll pass on the blowjob and cum-on-the-face scenes. Lack of empathy, I guess.
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That the only comments (so far) which have been modded up are funny? Is it that as something mixes with porn the potential to make fun of it approaches 1?
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Wow. Now the fantasy can be even more real! Men can squander their lives away in fruitless masturbation in a world of even greater pain!
Heh, he said penetration. Heh, heh heh!
The porn that I've researched seems to have been made on a sub-$1,000 budget, how are they spending so much money!?
You know, like keeping the camera in focus and not moving around and getting the camera guy to shut up?
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Pretty soon your average bukkake video will be so realistic, you'll need protective eye-wear anyway.
Now's the time to beat the squatter rush and register 3d fapping-related domains before The Man grabs them all. I came up with 3dfap.com which I could use, I suppose, both in case I decide to "reenter" the scene or alternatively for regular emailing as people who know what it means would not be offended by it and those who don't know what it is don't know what it is and 3dfap's nice and short, nice ring to it.
Any ophthalmologists care to weigh in on whether chronic eye crossing is risky? And if so any lawyers want to weigh in on whether 3d fapping sites should post health risks warnings?
Calling out bogus battery capacity claims.
The 3D experience isn't that great. It causes headaches and eyestrain. Porn makes you go blind as it is. With 3D it will be worse.
Many, if not most women in porn look pretty horrid what with the bruises, embarrassing tattoos and plastic surgery. They'll look great in one photoshoot and everywhere else they look like a drug-addled 2 dollar whore. On top of that we have to endure guys getting in the way of the action with closeups of their scrotums flopping around like a fish out of water. HD is already a problem for porn, 3D will only make things worse although at this point in the game it's more a gimmick than anything.
Maybe all this technology will have the unintended consequence of turning people away from porn. Your average girl is more attractive than most porn stars. And with a real girl you're not usually exposed to someone who's been pounded into oblivion, viewing everything in extreme closeup.
I'm assuming this was satire. I hate satire. I hate having to reverse-decode everything someone says. Anyways.
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Kids these days and their slang. :|
When I was barely 21, or so, around 30 years ago, the porn flick "Stewardesses" was released in 3D.
I have no idea if it was a "big hit" or not, but watching ankles in peripheral vision was an interesting experience.
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"The 3D porn experience is coming"
Does no one see the added benefit of the glasses doubling as "eye protection," from certain types of...projectiles?
people don't want to be encumbered by underwear when viewing a film, says Joone."
Fixed that for you.
So if you get 'caught', not only do you have to zip up, switch to some innocuous application, but now you also have to rip off and hide 3D glasses?
What are the chances that these glasses aren't going to be called "Jack-off Glasses"?
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Seeing it in 3D pales in comparison to haptic feedback. With RealTouch.com [nsfw] it's as if your in the movie. It reproduces the motion, heat, wetness, etc on you, synchronized to the video.
This will give a whole new meaning to "Not tonight. I've got a headache."
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why the need for a 3D tv if you already have to wear glasses? can't a normal tv show a picture that can be filtered by 2 different lenses, like regular film projectors do for 3d movies?
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I would think 'pussyfoot' is more appropriate.
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But Joone thinks the biggest hurdle for 3D isn't so much the cost as the glasses: people don't want to be encumbered by eyewear when viewing a film On the bright side, the glasses DO keep you from getting stuff in your eyes!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
I'd rather be wearing some display glasses that I can even forget I'm wearing than have to old something in my hands and look at its tiny screen. Add 3D and the vastly higher rez, the privacy, the overlays referring to what/who/where I'm looking, and I wish they'd put a smartphone in the glasses already. Even if I'm the only one who wants one.
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A big problem with 3D porn (and other 3D) is that you get an absolute size scale. If you see a complete man or woman on your 30" color LCD and view it from anything like normal viewing distances, it doesn't work well: either you see a normal sized person far away through a small window, or you see a tiny figure right where your screen is. That's OK for midget porn or voyeurism, but it doesn't work so well for more standard porn.
If you want regular-sized people at regular distances, you need life-size displays... which means 3D projectors.
Good job, Slashdot.
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That's certainly what people fear most: getting caught wearing glasses while watching porn.
The way some people watch porn I'd think they'd be worried about the glasses shattering. Or perhaps that's a result of the kind of porn they choose. Either or.
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As someone who has worked in the industry, I can tell you the real problem is technical, not financial (though that's a helluva factor too). 3D works best at a distance -- who wants to watch porn filmed from 15 feet away? Porn is a closeup business and 3D can be hard to pull off up close. Yes, feel free to make puns with that sentence.
These need 8 or more images to work, although it is quite possible to interpolate them from the 2 images of a normal stereo movie. This is currently nowhere near real time and sometimes some hints are needed for it to be done right. However I could imagine this becoming a standard: either the interpolation data is stored in the movie as it is far smaller than the images, or processing gets fast enough and the alogorithms good enough that it can be calculated from 2 pictures in real time.
The reason 8 images are needed is that at any position you are seeing image n and n+1 mod N where N is the number of images. Therefore at most positions your left eye sees one image and your right an image from a pov slightly to the right. However at some locations you see image N-1 and 0 and the eyes are reversed. Minimizing the size of these "wrong" positions requires N to be as high as possible.
Time to buy stock in any company that sells lens cleaning kits.
"Porn industry penetrates 3D Video Market"
"Porn industry busts into 3D Video Market"
"Porn industry comes into 3D Video Market"
Keep 'em coming, now...
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
That Avatar is soon to be facing some stiff competition?
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I think you are falsely concluding that your girlfriends discovery that the only way she is coming is by watching porn is some phenomenon happening on a grander scale.
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Penetration??? Who's going to be penetrated???
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That doesn't seem likely. They trick everyone into watching it now. New technology will merely give them even more of an upper hand in tricking unwitting men into accidentally watching it.
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You seriously need to get yourself a better source for your porn.
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They need to make the glass lens bigger because I can see the surroundings outside the glasses and it's annoying. Either that or bring the lens closer to the eye. Maybe even contacts?
... you could just reach out and touch them.
For $50.
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The goggles, they do... quite a bit, actually.
I need glasses?
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This will make great add-on for the Wii Fitness folks. Now you can work out and then duck (or catch) that money shot coming (pun intended) straight at the camera!
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When I was in college we had one of those BIG satellite dishes. This was around 1989. We got a channel called "American XXXtacy" or something like that.
The standard cum shot them was for the guy to pull out and jizz on the woman's stomach.
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More like '3D technology thrusts manfully into the quivering viewer.'
http://hardware?
...without 3d glasses the screen itself has to be made so you can view from different angles.
That would mean that 'normal' 2D viewing would give less resolution, and that is something you would not be prepared to buy.
Besides, the experience *with* glasses is better than without them. And on top of that, there is also a difference between the various glasses itself: the shutter glasses (electric) tend to be more versatile and do not require specific screens, but it is not as good as the polarized glasses (the avatar kind), which require a special screen.
Even with all that in place, 3D TV is heavily dependent on display panel speed - slow displays are not nearly fast enough to give you a good experience (but will give a nice headache).
when you could see every blemish (sometimes even the internal ones) on the models body.
Who wants that?
Then plug the active flicking thingy directly into your skull and make your eyes blink alternately, in sync with the screen--no glasses needed!
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The average adult movie costs around $25,000 to $40,000 to make
Wow, do they actually spend that much? You wouldn't have thought so...
That's not the only thing being "penetrated" here.
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through my restraints.
Well I do try not to be judgmental, especially about things that don't affect me. But it's hard to counter natural revulsion. When I see roadkill with it's guts squished out on the pavement, I have this natural revulsion reaction. I just find it gross. I'm not judging the roadkill, or the person who made it, or the people who made the road, I just find the roadkill disgusting.
It's much the same way when I view a video where a woman ends up with a big pile of goo on her face.
You know how it's gross when people sneeze and accidentally blow snot all over their faces? Well that's how I feel when I see semen all over someone's face.
And because I find it gross, when you see someone intentionally doing it to someone else, I naturally find this degrading. It would be like someone pissing on someone else. (And yes, I realize there are people who seem to enjoy that, too)
But you are probably right. There are probably lots of women out there who enjoy it. Perhaps they enjoy pleasing their man. Perhaps they enjoy being subservient. Perhaps they just enjoy gooey snot-like stuff being smeared on their faces.
So knock yourselves out! It's no cum off my nose.
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"The average adult movie costs around $25,000 to $40,000 to make"
I could finance an adult movie if they are this cheap to make. They must be paying the actors and actresses pennies. This must be a mistake.
Ow! My EYE!
I note that you got modded informative rather than insightful, but I couldn't find your link to better porn?
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Pay closer attention to what I wrote.
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What else besides glasses would one have to wear?
lolll...or perhaps I shouldn't be so "clever" when pointing out how people moderate things which are an insight as if they carried hard (npi) information.
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The post carries information, but it is implied rather than stated. The information is: There is lots of porn out there with super hot women in it. So no offense, but maybe you need to be more clever ;-)
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maybe you need to be more clever
Indeed; clearly it would be clever of me to be far more selective in the future.
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Try reading that again, sport. I'm comparing cum on someone's face to roadkill and being urinated on.
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Maybe his porn is already in HD, and he can actually see al those, and you can't, because you're still stuck with VHS?
Graduate from elementary school with passing grades in English prior to posting your 2 word length idiotic scrawlings here, you utter moron. Your primitive attempts at expressing yourself in writing are pitiful! Everytime we are subjected to your stupid 2 word replies, it just lends a bad scent to the air around here. Your writing style is giving this place a reputation of catering to those with 10 below plantlife IQ's such as your own. You're clearly indicative of the problems with the educational system in english writing style and prose as well.