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Japan's First VR Porn Festival Shut Down Due To Unprecedented Popularity (dailymail.co.uk)
turkeydance quotes a report from Daily Mail: A Japanese sex festival was over prematurely as herds of virtual porn fans caused overcrowding fears. Streams of locals were looking to get their hands on the latest inventions from the adult entertainment industry in the first festival of its kind -- the Adult VR Fest 01 in the Akihabara region of Tokyo. But fans of virtual reality porn, which re-enacts sex and other acts using a blend of simulation headsets, male-friendly sex toys and other gadgets, were left disappointed as the event was shut down due to unprecedented popularity. A Japanese reporter told VR Talk: "For those who did get to go inside, excitement ran wild. I'm not entirely sure if the same thing would happen in the U.S., but VR porn enthusiasts rushed to have a go at some of the latest virtual reality gadgets." About 20 fans were able to make it inside, but the event was reportedly called off due to the unsettling crowds gathered outside. VR Talk also reported that Google searches for the phrase 'VR Porn' have soared nearly 10,000%.
If it's a VR festival, why did anyone have to attend in person?
Tits or it didn't happen.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Not the first time VR porn fans have finished prematurely
Surely they mean it got shut down because too many people came...
You don't say, the turnout of an event that has never happened before has no precedent?
Amazing....
...the current generation of VR is going to become mainstream. Demand drives the market, after all.
The internet is for porn, and now VR is too.
What else can happen when an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object?
Akihabara was a lot cooler in the late 70's; gas-powered RC cars dangerously weaving between your legs, straw baskets full of electronic components... and the best okonomiyaki this side of Kansai. The best part? The "Japanese national obsession with all things twisted and perverted" was kept relegated to the "etchy manga" that businessmen would read on the train ride home - which was obviously not at all healthy but certainly far more pleasant for the rest of us...
But even more seriously, folks, I think we need to rethink our entire philosophy of reproduction. There are evolutionary reasons that we are strongly driven to have as many children as possible.
Yeah, but who wants to spend time raising kids when you could be doing interesting things in VR?
Note that Japanese Fertility Rate is waaaay under the replacement rate.
Also, last I checked, US fertility was right at the replacement rate, but since then it has dropped off a cliff, largely due to the economy: people cannot afford to have children any more.
until they are like 40. correlates perfectly with being a fan of porn
Had it been anywhere near a 50/50 ratio of dudes/chicks it would have been rated a roaring (or moaning) success.
I bet the weab^H women of Japan were showing up at the event to test those hotdogs while still in their Scrubs and stethoscopes on their necks. Or is teledildonics with rigged hit counters knott enough?
I think, you meant "median"...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
One thing you need to remember: ... well, it's a hard problem. Probably worse than NP-Hard, as the proper answer depends on multiple conditions that are unpredictable, as well as upon a social consensus on goals.
Biological change is extremely slow compared to cultural change.
One of the cultural changes has to do with attitudes towards genetic engineering of humans. Let the technology be perfected, and the cultures that *properly* embrace it will be the ones that survive. But defining what "properly" is
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
A Japanese sex festival was over prematurely as herds of virtual porn fans caused overcrowding fears.
Are they certain that is really why the festival was over... uhh.. prematurely?
The octopus got tired.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I've got a few stories but where to begin...?
Denmark has a far simpler solution, and it seems to be working. (Is the lack of test tubes a turn-off?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
I know sexual immorality isn't actually mentioned but I couldn't help but think of this chorus... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law he tore his robes.2Kings22:11
From the beginning, please.
"There are evolutionary reasons that we are strongly driven to have as many children as possible."
For some species. Humans seem to have evolved an indirect method: They are driven to have as much sex as possible. They mate a great deal more than almost any other species, as it serves a social as well as reproductive role. They also found lots of ways to get the sex without the reproduction, technological means to block reproduction when mating - they are so ridiculously over-sexed they even enjoy watching other people mate.
The human female reproductive system is actually quite rubbish - the implantation rate is awful, more fertilised eggs are lost than grown. When you're mating four times a week, you don't need to make sure every one will take.
The usual jokes aside, this is going to be a part of our future. VR is going to change human sexual interaction just like ubiquitous communication devices (phones) changed social interaction. Combined with task-optimized haptics to provide the tactile feedback, and given the importance of sex (or rather, orgasm) in the human experience, and it can't not change things.
Whether it changes things for the better or the worse remains to be seen though. Japan already has a birth rate problem and this isn't going to help. Which isn't to say that the tech shouldn't exist, only that one could very easily see it as exacerbating the problem. It may very well force Japanese society (and other societies as well) to finally address the issue and enact structural change to make rearing children more desirable.
The bigger question is whether this can be meaningfully used as a tool to improve human interaction. In both Japanese and Western societies, so much emphasis is put on your first time. Maybe this improves that, reducing the massive social threshold that comes with sex and at the same time producing a generation of young adults who are more confident with sex, what they want from it, and what they expect from each other?
No matter how it ends up, it'll be interesting to see how it evolves.
These days they watch the porn on their smartphones, but at least many of them are "polite" enough to use those screen covers that make the display highly directional. In one case I encountered where the fellow did not use the screen cover he wasn't reading a manga, but watching a porn video on the train.
Progress!
(P.S. I'm sure there are other examples, but that one was extreme enough to be memorable.)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Depends on the degree to which intelligence is a discrete trait, but there is generally a lot of confusion about how genetics works. It is NOT a little blueprint for a unique human being, but more like a book of recipes that might lead to one instance of a fairly wide range of possible human beings. I think "intelligence" is an especially muddled concept at both ends, in terms of assessment and in terms of the linkage to genetic factors.
However, you can say that there are some genes that have some connection to intelligence, and you can sometimes assess them on a pairwise basis. If the fetus has the "better" gene from both parents, then it is "luckier" than the other 75% of the fetuses for THAT particular gene. Considering how many genes there are and the various interaction effects, I doubt that we'll ever be able to come up with solid numbers, but I do think that we'll be able to make rough probabilistic estimates of the form such as "This fetus has a significantly better than average set of the genes available in these two parents." (There are some people who want to go much farther than that... I'm basically taking a passive position on the topic.)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
^^^ Winz the internet!
When I first read Ready Player One, I didn't think it was going to be such a prophecy. Where's my UberBetty?
I am sure visuals are great, but wouldn't one experience some unwanted haptic/olfactory feedback when trying this technology in a crowded place?
...this is what you get for dropping the atomic bomb twice.
Beavis and Butthead -- where are you when we need you guys
Quite often, "median" and "average" are used interchangeably, though that is not always correct.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
"Japan's First VR Porn Festival Shut Down Due To Unprecedented Popularity"
Truly an example of both "modern problems" and "first world problems" together in one place.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Your definition of sarcasm needs work. Is this some version of the Top Gear "It's just a joke" defense?
I think we're dealing with real numbers here, not discrete rational values. Medians and modes are diversionary, even allowing for my sloppy use of some messy terms here. In particular I'm certain that any attempt to measure intelligence in a concrete way is doomed by Godel's ghost.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.