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Pornhub Unveils Free VR Porn Channel (pcworld.com)
An anonymous reader writes from an article on PCWorld: Big-name pornography website Pornhub has partnered with BadoinkVR, an early mover and shaker in VR porn, to launch a new section dedicated to immersive adult videos, aka VR porn. "Virtual reality is the next phase in the constantly metamorphosing world of adult entertainment, and will provide users with a mesmeric experience unlike anything they've seen before," Pornhub Vice President Corey Price said in a press release. "Now, our users are not only able to view our content, but be protagonists in the experience and interact with their favorite porn stars." The videos are roughly five-minute-long trailers designed to hook you on the VR porn experience. If you want the full videos, you'll need to sign up for a subscription with BadoinkVR itself, which will unlock the service's full adult-video selection starting at $20 per month. Pornhub is giving away 10,000 free pairs of branded Google Cardboard VR glasses if you are interested in trying out the experience but lack a VR headset.
...cue the USB vaginas?
into a "pay model" that actually pays.
What a time to be alive!
Can I see the Golden Girls in VR Porn? I always had a thing for Rue McClanahan.
...."I still jerk off manually."
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The Bible is like Wikipedia: written by a bunch of people and verifiable by questionable sources.
Going to take a test drive, if you guys haven't seen me post in the next 3 or 4 days send the paramedics ;-)
Also, reminds me of the scene in Brainstorm (1983) where the guy splices the brain scan tape into a loop until he's found many hours later... good times!
Really Slashdot, you are pushing smut now? In your own words "The videos are roughly five-minute-long trailers designed to hook you on the VR porn experience". How is this not a Slashvertisement. P.S. As a VR device owner, if you are watching VR porn with a Google Cardboard VR then you are probably doing it wrong unless it has head straps, you want both hands free.
That's actually really good timing. I was wanting to try Google Cardboard but gave up because all the kits are $20+. At least I'll get a chance to try it with the free one. It looks like it has PORNHUB on the front so that won't be for showing my friends and family.
Please send to ISIS so they’ll have something better to do than be a bunch of jags.
Alrighty....now that's the kind of innovation and useful technological creativity I've come to expect from the interweb.
brb, off to buy a VR headset
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Women have become obsolete.
The Pimp-Boy, a personal computing device strapped to the character's wrist, allows the player to access a menu with statistics, anatomical charts, gynecological data, player health, and remaining ammo load. Don't use Pornhub VR without it!
I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
I have a couple of smartphones: an HTC One M7 (which can decode sphere mapped stereo videos with 4k x 1.5k res in hardware, but can only do about 5fps), and a newer cheaper smartphone with a full HD screen, and which can only hw decode lower resolution and has inaccurate jumpy gyroscope. I would imagine that things like the Omimo headset are something to watch for in future (where you can either connect to a PC, or stick an sd card with the 3d movie into it and have it play that. But I think we need to let the hardware side mature for a couple of years, and indeed the filming tech. That said, this is probably a far more productive avenue for them to explore than 4k, though 4k porn with interactive zoom (with or without side by side for a headset) would, again, be something to look out for.
In all these cases, I can see porn blazing a trail in many areas, and other niches of video following them in (for example videos of sports out of the mainstream -- imagine having a 3d 120fps recording of something like a squash match, though tech for this sort of thing isn't there yet). In addition, with regards to the free vs. pay model that is emerging, this is something the entire content industry needs to watch. I think the porn industry is learning that there needs to be sufficient free material to satisfy demand somewhat so as to alleviate the pressure to pirate, and high quality paid material for those willing to pay a little (and at present, for what you can get for about $100, it really is only a little).
John_Chalisque
“Now, our users are not only able to view our content, but be protagonists in the experience and interact with their favorite porn stars.”
Really? "Interact" would suggest that one can partake in some form of activity with them (think we can figure out which) and that they'll respond accordingly. I'd hardly count being able to view different parts of an otherwise fixed video- by moving my head- as "interactive" with the performers in any meaningful sense. There's nothing there to indicate that anything like this is on the cards, however.
Unless you can at least move around within the interactive world, it's still just a jumped-up method of watching videos. Any initial popularity will quickly tail off once the novelty fades and is outweighed by the hassle of donning a f****** VR headset just to be able to look around while you jerk off.
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That explains why my boss suddenly wanted his Oculus headset back yesterday after asking me a couple of days ago to spend 2 weeks evaluating it with the R&D team for ideas.
Surprised anyone is still here posting.... see ya!!
I attempted to check out badonkvr.com on my phone only to be greeted by a floating banner declaring that my device has 4 viruses and a damaged battery, all of which could be repaired if I just clicked their link. Instead I simply rebooted my device and will never visit their scammy bullsh*t website again. Too bad for them because I would have happily paid a few bucks to check out some cardboard VR pr0n.
What am I supposed to do with the remaining four minutes?
Have gnu, will travel.
that would have been great, and would have saved the VRML standard.
Kids growing up on high-speed internet porn are experiencing an epidemic of erectile disfunction and other sexual issues. It turns out the massive amounts of dopamine released from watching porn during puberty really messes up their neurochemistry. An hour of modern porn is more stimulation than our ancestors witnessed in a lifetime. There is a great TEDx talk about this epidemic here: https://youtu.be/wSF82AwSDiU
One can only wonder what the future holds for kids growing up on VR porn...
Visit http://www.nofap.com to 'reboot' your brain if you're watching porn obsessively. /psa
Does it work with Linux / HTC Vive?
All 10k units are gone.
upon the advice of my lawyer, i have no sig at this time
"You first had my curiosity. Now you have my attention!"
Women in the advanced nations, better sit up a little more. Female companionship just nudged ever so slightly against their favor.
In fact, this will likely start the slow redefine of companionship in certain aspects.
... than your college roommate catching you masturbating, is if you're still obliviously masturbating 10 minutes later, after the entire dorm has been called in to cheer you on.
This makes me think of one of the funnier things that a friend of mine once said:
"Watching porn in HDTV was a baaaaaad idea..."
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Sadly, the song doesn't work well with Virtual Reality. Someone more creative than me please make a new one?
On a more serious note: I'm always glad to see some initiative on VR tech. Maybe now VR will gain enough popularity to gain some traction with developers. Sure it will be nothing but another SecondLife at first, but maybe once VR has enough market ....share, we'll get something less expensive, and more useful out of it.
The main actor should be in the center but the images in the article seem to imply that the 360 view shows the room. It is an interesting start I guess.
Just give me a button to trigger a direct brain orgasm with or without ejaculation.
Let's hope the NSA does not put a backdoor there!
Is it washable?
Back in the day I was playing Quake 2 a lot.. a whole lot. One late night I was a mostly empty server chatting with a female (well she claimed to be at least) & she sent me skins that she was using. She kept switching from one to another & I had a epiphany of what the future held. Yes it was late & got a bit weirded out.
But I really thought that VR porn (hell VR anything) was only a couple years away & we are talking 1998 for christsake. What has taken so freaking long for this technology to be implemented?
SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT
...not with a bang, but a whimper. I mean, not with a whimper but a moan. I mean,...oh never mind.
(Hey, who will bother with the real and risky thing when the virtual thing will provide the same biochemical reaction?)
Redundant Redundant.
Can I see the Golden Girls in VR Porn? I always had a thing for Rue McClanahan.
You would rue the day you got your wish.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Consider, for a moment, technological progress:
The first known 3-D carving was of a naked female.
A few years ago, archeologists found an early spear with the remains of human blood on the tip.
I'll skip beyond the Romans and their siege engines.
They've found medieval "art books."
It was only a few months after photography was created that the first nude photographs were made.
The first "ASL" of the modern era predates Morse by a few years.
The "nickel reels" at the early 1900's carnivals.
WWI brought us nerve gas, tanks, machine guns, cheesecake (and beefcake) photographs by the millions, canned food that was not likely to kill you...
and other people have mentioned the whole VHS killing Beta because of it being adopted by porn.
An can we kill the damn 1 comment an hour?
Torture with no physical evidence.
Prisoner is afraid of fire? well let's immerse him into a VR fiery hell.
That'll make him talk...
Brainwashing ? Could be a useful tool.
In VR the heroic rebel is now a sadistic traitor.
Plugged into your brain, 247.
Don't underestimate how creative humans can be at adapting
technology for evil purposes.
For the enlightened few.
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i've been wondering what they were actually for.
stupid wankers.
I took a look at it. It does not support head tracking so you get a nice 3D effect but not much in the way of "VR". Their downloadable player does not seem to support head tracking either. Also, there is no lens distortion correction and it seems to only playback a 180 degree field of view so it's pretty much just a stereoscopic movie. On the plus side, the streaming video quality in 1080p was impressive and did not appear to have any obvious compression artifacts. It's an interesting concept but still has a way to go before it feels like true VR.
These are 5 minute samples, aka ads.
Political correctness nazis have censored all porn to remove any evincing of females taking pleasure from sex with males. This is to promote the feminist theory that all sex is rape.
Goooooddddbyyyyeeee moderation!!!!