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

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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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!

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

    Who needs virtual porn when they can get real porn?

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Re: Incredibly useless by Time_Ngler · · Score: 2

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

  8. 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?

  9. 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.

  10. 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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