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Google Searches For 'VR Porn' Increase 10,000% (vrtalk.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the trendy-traffic dept.

Slashdot reader Bob768 writes: Over the last 20 months, with the rise of virtual reality technology, the number of Google searches for the phrase 'VR Porn' have soared nearly 10,000%. The leading country for these searches is Norway.
Last November searches for the term experienced the "spike of all spikes", according to a post on the VR Talk forum, which also identifies the top cities (two in Australia) for the searches -- Helsinki, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and Seoul.

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  1. Which Glasses / Be The Girl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    1. With occulus rift being vaporware, which glasses are the best for viewing 3D porn?

    2. What are the best sites for "be the girl" porn? (serious question)

    -timothy

    1. Re:Which Glasses / Be The Girl by Z80a · · Score: 4, Informative

      Well, right now the vive is the one with the best screen/head tracking.
      but those are early stuff.

    2. Re:Which Glasses / Be The Girl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Only directional tracking is important because VR porn is currently just video from a fixed VR camera. You can't actually move around in the scene.

    3. Re:Which Glasses / Be The Girl by Z80a · · Score: 1

      If we're talking about video VR porn yes.

    4. Re: Which Glasses / Be The Girl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      The Vive will stand out when they make the first ATM VR porn where you are the girl as the poster requested...

      That sounds kinky, but won't the bank object to their equipment being used that way?

    5. Re:Which Glasses / Be The Girl by Z34107 · · Score: 1

      1. With occulus rift being vaporware, which glasses are the best for viewing 3D porn?

      The Facebook Rift is actually shipping now, but I'm partial to the Vive. You'll need to purchase Virtual Desktop to watch 3D videos on the latter.

      2. What are the best sites for "be the girl" porn? (serious question)

      Check out this, shot from a girl's PoV. You'd think looking down at your chest and having a girl's breasts would be weird--unless you are a grill, I s'pose (inb4 >slashdot), or unless your physique lends itself to man boobs.

      But it was having a girl's arms that freaked me out.

      I mean, I'm no Yao Ming, but I'm tall. I have large hands and long fingers, though I'm not used to thinking of them that way--they're just your hands, right? How much time do people in prohibitionist states spend really contemplating their hands? Outside of shopping for a pair of gloves that fit (they're all made by gnomes, for gnomes), or showing off with some Rachmaninoff, they're just hands, and you don't really think about their dimensions.

      But that video dumps you into the perspective of a girl. A tiny girl. A tiny girl, with tiny arms, and tiny hands, and tiny, tiny wrists. And holy shit, is that weird.

      I'm used to porn making me big, but that was the first time porn made me small! It was some real Alice in Wonderland shit.

      I mean, are tiny people really that tiny? How do you tiny people do push-ups without your hands breaking right off? How do you reach the trigger on a rifle? Do your fingers not overhang computer mice by several inches, dragging along the tabletop every time you mouse?

      Were people serious about the Xbox controller being large?

      The whole experience has really changed my understanding of reality. It's not the kind of thing you can casually whip out at a VR party, though.

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    6. Re: Which Glasses / Be The Girl by RockDoctor · · Score: 1

      VR porn where you are the girl as the poster requested...

      That sounds kinky,

      Let me guess : you're a guy, and you've never acknowledged the "feminine side of your nature".

      I'm a guy, who knows by experience that I prefer poking women to poking men, and I don't get anything from "anal play" myself. I find the idea of "be the girl VR porn" interesting. For one thing, it'll completely change the extremely stereotyped mainstream porn industry. It might actually open a whole new market of porn for women which actually involves women enjoying themselves. Ground-breaking potential indeed.

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  2. Not a useful metric. by meerling · · Score: 2

    How about you try to correlate it with number of VR sets in those countries.
    That at least might give you some interesting numbers.
    The way that article was written, it may just be one airline pilot that was anticipating getting his vr set, and now he's finally gotten it and is really excited.

    1. Re:Not a useful metric. by Moof123 · · Score: 1

      Selling 11 copies of something this year versus 1 last year is 1000% growth! Unless the total sold in the denominator was significant, growth is a terrible metric.

      20 months ago VR headsets were developer betas only, so I would guess the number of searches relative to all porn searches was miniscule. I am willing to bet the number is still miniscule, just not quite so as before. Whoop.

    2. Re:Not a useful metric. by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 1

      How about you try to correlate it with number of VR sets in those countries.
      That at least might give you some interesting numbers.

      California is the biggest consumer of furry pornography in America, followed by Texas, Florida, and New York.

    3. Re:Not a useful metric. by originalGMC · · Score: 1

      Totally agree with your first statement. I never would have approved this for front page material, the information is not useful in any way. OMG the phrase just went up % in my house only 2 weeks after I got my glasses. To /. with this amazing maths!!!!

  3. Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Luckily, nobody ever makes Google searches after seeing a Slashdot post.

    1. Re:Slashdot by dgatwood · · Score: 4, Funny

      Luckily, nobody ever makes Google searches after seeing a Slashdot post.

      Tomorrow's dupe: "Google Searches For 'VR Porn' Increase 1,000,000%".

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  4. Im confused... by choprboy · · Score: 2

    which also identifies the top cities (two in Australia) for the searches -- Helsinki, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and Seoul.

    ... Which of the two cities are in Australia; Melbourne, Sydney, or Brisbane? (The forum post, by the way, makes no mention of "two in Australia"). Hurray for editors!

    1. Re:Im confused... by redcliffe · · Score: 1

      I'm pretty sure there's a Melbourne and a Brisbane in the USA, but not sure if that's what's going on here.

    2. Re:Im confused... by RuffMasterD · · Score: 1

      That only leaves Sydney and Cockburn as the obvious candidates.

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  5. Bah! by penguinoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who needs virtual porn when they can get real porn?

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    1. Re:Bah! by GrBear · · Score: 1

      Presumably VR porn means 'interactive' porn.

  6. Incredibly useless by TFlan91 · · Score: 1

    Page hits go from 1 to 10000...

    Headline: "Page hits increases 10,000%!!"

    1. Re:Incredibly useless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Increasing from 1 to 10,000 would be a 1,000,000% increase. But you were close.

    2. Re: Incredibly useless by Time_Ngler · · Score: 2

      This is slashdot. He was assuming the editors would get the math wrong.

  7. VR Porn by penguinoid · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't believe what I saw when I zoomed in on a Sim City teenager's computer screen.

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  8. Then they looked for VR Goat RapeFuck Porn... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ....and the hits from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar went through the roof.

  9. Google cardboard? by diablobsb · · Score: 2

    13 dollars I think gets you a google cardboard kit... on which you can play some 3d content (3d not as in stereo, but as in "move your head around" 3d).

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  10. Simple explaination by davidwr · · Score: 1

    Someone's programming the sex-chatbots to do Google searches :)=

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  11. Is there any? by backslashdot · · Score: 2

    Probably the biggest blunder is to not have porn available. This, combined with the fact that the resolution needs to at least double .. it's no wonder VR will fail this time around as well.

    I think we have to wait till the year 2035 -- at least for there to be usable VR. If they had made more porn apps .. the investment would have allowed VR tech to advance to the point of being usable by 2020.

    1. Re:Is there any? by GuB-42 · · Score: 1

      Yes there is. There is a VR section on PornHub.
      There is still not much because it is a new thing and it requires significantly different filming techniques.

    2. Re:Is there any? by LordWabbit2 · · Score: 1

      Well let's hope it requires ANY acting ability as well.

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  12. Add brexit to the graph by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 2

    And you can see VR porn is tiny.

    https://www.google.com/trends/...

    It's just having a high relative increase from an essentially zero base.

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  13. Two cities in Australia? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    ...which also identifies the top cities (two in Australia) for the searches -- Helsinki, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and Seoul.

    I make it three in Australia. Unless they mean Melbourne (in Derbyshire or Florida or Quebec or other places) or Sydney (in Nova Scotia or British Colombia) or Brisbane (in California). This appears unlikely.

    1. Re:Two cities in Australia? by quenda · · Score: 1

      Brisbane seceded. Did you not hear about the BREXIT ?

  14. Explanation for why Norway topping the chart by CptLoRes · · Score: 1

    I think I can explain why Norway is topping the VR porn chart. With Norway being a high cost country, the price of a flagship smartphone becomes relatively low compared to many other things like cost of living etc. So in our country Samsung has been very successful in marketing the Galaxy S7 with the the free GearVR bundle. It's definitively one of the most popular phones at the moment. I see them everywhere. In fact when I purchased my S7, Samsung Norway was so overwhelmed by orders that they had run out of GearVR bundles, and had to ship the VR googles later when they got new ones from overseas. So at the moment there is a lot of GearVR users in Norway, looking for content. And as we all know, internet is for porn.

  15. Yes, three in Aussieland by justthinkit · · Score: 1

    But B.C.'s is spelled Sidney.

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    1. Re:Yes, three in Aussieland by DeBaas · · Score: 1

      well, maybe if you're always down under you might want to know what it's like to be on top once. Even if it's just virtual...

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  16. The Spike of All Spikes? by wonkavader · · Score: 1

    No. Really.

    Compare it to "Brexit".

    https://www.google.com/trends/...

  17. Well of course by HalAtWork · · Score: 1

    Who the hell was searching for "vr porn" before consumer vr headsets were on the market? I guess everyone has their kink...

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  18. for once technology by umghhh · · Score: 1

    for the nerds. Something we were waiting for. Fuck self driving cars I want to have a robot self washing babe and if that is not available soon at least a good virtual pr0n. A nightmare of STD and pregnancy (yes in this day and age it still happens that you get screwed over an unwanted pregnancy unless you get yourself a cut) may be gone and I do not have to talk to other human when I do not want to. OC there will be people that will be disappointed - but hey the argument about dehumanizing sex as good as it would fit cannot be made because no human is getting dehumanized (sex) other than the customer themselves. Final release from naizfems and other confused individuals like my ex.

  19. Re:Guys want sex... by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1

    You do realize that the latter is a piss-poor counterargument to the "women are too dangerous" claim? ;)

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  20. Re:Who cares? Why does this matter to anyone? by Maritz · · Score: 1

    You realise that the owners are probably keen to get eyeballs and comments on articles, do you? You went and commented on something that you think to be boring. Probably best not to do that.

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