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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.
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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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!
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.
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...
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.
Go fuck your self... ;)
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What am I supposed to do with the remaining four minutes?
Have gnu, will travel.
All 10k units are gone.
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Not surprising, since the website is badoinkvr.com (with an i). Typo domains suck.
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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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Do you mean he should play the single-player campaign?
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Let's hope the NSA does not put a backdoor there!
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
It was presented quite nicely in Ringworld series from Larry Niven.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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wireheading is the most addictive habit known [...], and wireheads usually die from neglecting themselves in favour of the ceaseless pleasure. Wireheading is so powerful and easy that it becomes an evolutionary pressure, selecting against that portion of Known Space humanity without self-control.
[...]
study in which experimental rats had electrodes implanted at strategic locations in their brains, so that an applied current would induce a pleasant feeling. If the current could be obtained any time the rats pushed the lever, they would use it over and over, ignoring food and physical necessities until they died. Such experiments were actually conducted by James Olds and Peter Milner in the 1950s, first discovering the locations of such areas, and later showing extremes to which rats would go to obtain the stimulus again.
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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.
Go fuck your self... ;)
I see what you did there.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
if you are watching VR porn with a Google Cardboard VR
... then you'll soon be needing Google Tissues or Google Moist Towlettes.
For the enlightened few.
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i've been wondering what they were actually for.
stupid wankers.