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The First Real Boom in Virtual Reality? It's Pornography. (wsj.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Pornography has provided the first real boom in VR, and adult-entertainment companies like Naughty America are leading the way. In the 18 months after producing its first VR video, the San Diego-based studio released 108 more, making it one of the most prolific producers of VR content in the world. In 2017, the company operated a booth at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and became the first adult business allowed to exhibit in 19 years.
It's not surprising that adult-entertainment companies are among the first movers in the nascent VR industry. After adult content helped popularize new media formats like VHS, Blu-ray and streaming video, the idea that porn drives digital innovation became a widely accepted truth. What is surprising is how big VR porn has become, and how quickly. In 2016, Samsung, HTC, Google, Sony and Facebook-owned Oculus sold just over 6.1 million headsets worldwide, according to an estimate from SuperData, a videogame market research firm. In December 2016 alone, Naughty America's customers downloaded more than 20 million VR videos, the company said. VR porn consumers are also more willing to pay for content than consumers of typical online porn.
It's not surprising that adult-entertainment companies are among the first movers in the nascent VR industry. After adult content helped popularize new media formats like VHS, Blu-ray and streaming video, the idea that porn drives digital innovation became a widely accepted truth. What is surprising is how big VR porn has become, and how quickly. In 2016, Samsung, HTC, Google, Sony and Facebook-owned Oculus sold just over 6.1 million headsets worldwide, according to an estimate from SuperData, a videogame market research firm. In December 2016 alone, Naughty America's customers downloaded more than 20 million VR videos, the company said. VR porn consumers are also more willing to pay for content than consumers of typical online porn.
What is surprising is how big VR porn has become, and how quickly.
LOL!
Has somebody not been paying attention for the last 30 years?
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Were you trying to say that when VR experiences its first real boom, it'll be porn?? Regardless... that "boom" will have to come first, msmash... something to do with causality.
Sex is a largely unfulfilled need, particularly amongst men. Especially married. Dead bedroom and all that.
Who'd want porn with that old hag? Even her husband is going for younger game.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Just like always, Porn is pushing the adoption and improvement of technology.
Weather streaming video, DVD or robots, porn is always one step ahead of general consumer market.
Every other kind of porn that you could possibly think of you can get for free on the internet. There's literally an endless amount of people very willing to shag in front of cameras and put that online, who'd pay for something like that?
The only way you could get people to pay for porn anymore is if you can produce some where the production cost is higher than, well, a home video camera and a broadband connection.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I fell into the VR trap and bought an Oculus Rift after a demo. I was really excited and my computer a big beast i7 with a 1080ti was more than up to the task.
Then I noticed all the garbage content and the crap resolution of the headset and it's complete inability to support users that wear glasses. It's certainly a neat idea but the high frame rate requirement to prevent the nausea factor makes the content just looks like garbage. 4k gaming just looks a million times better and on a big display is just as immersive. All the jagged edges of the low poly crap you see in VR is just not worth the price of entry to see.
VR is not ready for prime time. Computers aren't fast enough to match current state of the art content we have in the non VR world in VR. The headsets themselves are low resolution with optical issues and without the ability to support users who don't have perfect 20/20 vision.
It's sort of a bad joke at this point for people who shell out the money for a headset that for most users will eventually disappoint them and sit on a shelf collecting dust.
VR porn is still just fixed, stereoscopic porn.
The real deal is in interactive 3D hentai porn.
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Google Streetview VR is awesome.
I'd really love some documentaries or movies or whatnot in full VR but nope. There are a few games (which are good to be fair but I'm not really a gamer). The porn is, however, very very realistic and fully taking advantage of the medium.
So where the fuck are the documentaries? I want those.
Not that I have a problem with being a chick with big tits in VR either though.
Porn is fine. I mean, consuming things for excitement is fine.
When people get into the whole "lifestyle, collector" ... "dedicated shrine-like room" ... there's a problem.
Me! Me! I want to be a pioneer in acceptance. Hillary is 1derful. Age is only a number. She still looks cute with enough makeup.
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It used to be that if you wanted video porn you had to pay for that too, but eventually it became plentiful and cheap. My understanding is that the people who put it online charge for live shows or have crowd-funding setups, so it's not as though all of them are doing this for free. If that's your model, it makes sense to just give away the old stuff since anyone who stumbles on it might be swayed to become a paying customer. The individual odds are low, but if you can get 250,000 eyeballs, a .1% conversion rate is good enough if each of those people will spend $10 a month.
Even if VR porn is expensive now, market forces and technological advances will drive down the cost over time. Unless you're creating customized real-time experiences, you're creating a digital good that might be expensive to make, but is cheap to duplicate exact copies of after it has been made. Even the program that can create real-time experiences only needs to be written once, as difficult as it may be to actually do so.
Pornography is 80% of the reason this technology even exists.
I always thought my thesis would be on how every advancement of communications technology has been driven by porn. VR, internet, VCR...all porn. That "ancient fertility statue"? Porn.
Every other kind of porn that you could possibly think of you can get for free on the internet. There's literally an endless amount of people very willing to shag in front of cameras and put that online, who'd pay for something like that?
I've always struggled to find Down syndrome porn. Maybe it's pay walled, I don't know!
But, I can't read the articles.
Because they're paywalled.
Kind of like the VR content that seems to be driving the industry.
Check your premises.
The real deal is in interactive 3D hentai porn.
Where you are the tentacler, or the tentacleee?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
coming
There's also gaming.
We understand the jealously of your acceptance to have sex with machines, while others fucking amazing human women.
Every other kind of porn that you could possibly think of you can get for free on the internet. There's literally an endless amount of people very willing to shag in front of cameras and put that online, who'd pay for something like that?
The only way you could get people to pay for porn anymore is if you can produce some where the production cost is higher than, well, a home video camera and a broadband connection.
As you mention, there is a big difference between 4k shot from multiple angles, in good lighting, and amateur home videos.
In addition, there are plenty of niche genres where there are not a lot of free videos out there. Not everybody knows how to pirate, and pirating relies on someone uploading the content, which may not be the case for many niche genres.
Speaking for a friend, of course.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
It was gonna be either that or war.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
After adult content helped popularize new media formats like VHS, Blu-ray and streaming video
The PS3 is what made BluRay a success. Porn backed HD-DVD initially.
I mean unless it's like some 80 year old baptist preacher who isn't even sure what a computer is for...
This is the same thing that happened in the VHS:Betamax battle back in the '80s. Once the porn industry picks a VR hardware and interface format and standardizes on it that combo will become the most popular HW/interface on the market, quality be Damned.
I just hope they go with the best quality choice this time, VHS was an inferior format to Betamax but Beta still lost out. Anther nail in the Beta coffin was cost, though Beta did continue to serve the TV industry very well until HD-digital came on the scene
If you build it, they will cum. ;-)
Honestly, starting with Beta vs VHS ... any new consumer technology isn't going to ever succeed unless the porn industry adopts it.
This stuff has been something people are aware of for a very long time. If the porn industry says "nah, not what we need", the technology is pretty much DOA.
I doubt this is even 'news' to most people in the tech industry, since this has been said quite a lot for a long time.
Asian women look retarded and sufficiently mongoloid
FOR PORN...
I have fiber optic so I dont have to wait
FOR PORN
Theres always some new app
FOR PORN
vr looks so real
FOR PORN
Its a miracle of 3d graphics
FOR PORN
VR is for Porn, VR is for porn
Why do you think VR was born
PORN, PORN, PORN
I was going broke paying for 30 second clips shot in the dark of obese people looking for the hole to stick it in!
Now I can save enough money to put my little girl through college!
P.S. Where do I find this free porn?
Total darkness fixes a lot. But not that.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
I've been suspect of the supposed history of the porn industry leading the way among new technologies. There are plenty of industries making use of VR, and expanding that use dramatically over the last couple years, just as there have been for any new technology that the porn industry touts as having been a pioneer in. These claims always seem to originate from the porn industry itself and are never backed up by any kind of supporting data.
It's just marketing. Sure VR porn exists, but it's not a bellwether any more than other entertainment industries or educational efforts. But like clockwork, any time this claim can be made by the porn industry, you'll see it.
Get back to me when it fully takes advantage of the extra large. ;)
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
Haven't you heard? Age is sexist.
Pelosi.
Fucking Duh!
Speaking as a UK escort (with a vested interest of course) my experience is that men who indulge cam sex haven't got a clue in the real world. I don't expect this will change with VR. One hour of real sex with an escort is easily worth 100 hours of shallow cam sex so all in all even if more expensive up front it works out better and cheaper to see an excort in the naked flash for real. I like cock. I like money. Even better I like taking cock for money. I get a tremendous sense of job satisfaction from a man getting balls deep in me and reaching his unstoppable tipping point and coming hard with his reaching deep inside me with his twitching erectness and his groin muscles clenching and squeezing like he's having sex for the first time.
While writing this I'm in between clients. I'm not sure what to wear for tonights client? A tailored skirt with a fur collar and tight pencil skirt, pearl pendant earrings and a victorian style two row pearl choker, and black lace lingergie with stockings, of course. I woudl wear my red satin basque with suspender straps but I find this makes men so horny their experience is over before it begins and I love giving good value for men who like to indulge the pleasures of having me.
Next no more more SEX (needs to be in a lab) it's safer. Just like in demolition man
Having owned and operated an internet service porn made the internet what it is today. Without porn the internet would have never survived.
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To the surprise of not one single person, except the idiot who wrote this article who is apparently utterly ignorant of how the web got started in 94.
Asian women look retarded and sufficiently mongoloid
Use of the disfavored term mongoloid for retardation derives from Mongolia and the Asian face.
Things were...a bit more freewheeling back then.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
You made me say it.
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Those familiar with history expected this. Stay in school kids!
Tech continues to profit from the objectification of women and they have a persistent sexism and misogyny problem. I don't in any way wonder why.
It's a matter of simple fact that EVERY technological development in imagery is first used for porn. Portraiture. Sculpture. Photography. Digital imagery; the ubiquitous GIF format was originally designed to allow any computer OS to be able to view any picture. Video; at one point, half of the video tapes in the world were porn. You could even rent a VCR and a handful of videos and view the in the privacy of your own home.
Why would VR or AR be any different?
For PORN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Pirate Porn is awesome. Jessie Jane and Belladonna in (and out of) pirate outfits? Hell yeah!
You:
I believe Porn has led the way in leveraging technology in one way or another since the beginning f time.
TFS:
After adult content helped popularize new media formats like VHS, Blu-ray and streaming video, the idea that porn drives digital innovation became a widely accepted truth.
Small problem here - the porn industry went all-in on HD-DVD, not Blu-Ray. So let's not oversell the idea.
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Retards and asians have the same almond-shaped eyes and epicanthic structures.
Obviously, it's not a physical correlation to be proud of, but that's just tough shit, isn't it?
Also: asian women use glue on their eyes to look less retarded, and more western.
And coal mining companies profit from the objectification of men.
The good 'ol days. Maybe they intended to book a booth at the adult convention instead of CES?
Like your wife is really a bombshell LUL.
Nerds being choosey. Who would have thought.
It's easier if you get out of your mom's basement once in a while.
Also, the women making the porn continue to profit from the objectification of women. At the end of the night, it is the women that leave the strip club with all the money. So, take your misandry and stuff it. Nobody is buying it anymore. If you want to stop porn, all you have to do is get your sisters to buy in on your plan. Good luck with that.
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
I agree that porn is in a different category qualitatively than sex with a real person.
Consider though that porn fills a need that sex with another person cannot: relieving a physical urge that society won't allow to be consummated between two real people. Examples of these porn consumers: a married man, a priest, etc. Yes, I know these types visit prostitutes (or escorts, if you prefer), but the consequences can be severe if they are caught, and moral/psychological conflict over the transgression can be bad too.
In principle, I have no problem with unmarried/unattached people using your services. But I believe it should be legal in all cases. It's people's private lives, not the state's.
Bill won't touch it, nobody else will ether.
Bet it you caught her mid seizure, it would feel 'interesting'.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
For all the extra realism and vividness these new technologies bring, I wish to God they would apply some basic quality control first and not film women presenting to me their ass *covered* in pimples, the rash adorning their lower abdomen, and their arms and neck in full tattoo. What's left, leaving the syringe dangling in your arm while you do it?
SystemD
See? The name looks like an ASCII penis!
I am pretty sure the club owner gets a cut.
Starships were meant to fly, Hands up and touch the sky - Nicky Minaj
The whole drive for faster modems, bigger hard drives, bigger monitors; all these were driven by the BBS's with huge porn archives.
I remember downloading Claudia Schffer GIF's at 300 baud; good days, lol!
Hopefully, I'll be able to Amazon a fully functional BSG #6 before I die; I probably won't last a week after that. :)
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
...Are why we replace you with porn.
Get over it.
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
Highest paid adult actors: women.
Have gnu, will travel.
Pr0n has led the way for most media storage and presentation technologies over the years.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
VR isn't a viable technique for anything except save porn.
objectification of women
Am I the only person who thinks that's a nonsense phrase?
Don't be sexist. There's plenty of gay porn too.
And women in every field continue to profit from the objectifiation of men as meal tickets.
You're dealing with a dynamic that is millennia old, so it's not going to change overnight. Hell, it's more likely that gender feminism will die out entirely within the next 50 years.
I think this is different. VHS etc. were convenient, strapping yourself into VR gear is decidedly *inconvenient* and requires a very inconvenient amount of space and funds. I'd also be willing to wager that most of their patrons reside in California, and probably in the Valley soecifically. I really don't think VR is going to be more than a novelty for some time to come, and it's actually probably more akin to 3D TV than the original video revolution, as in, it may stay niche forever.
Ew. Man that'll be hard to get that image out of your mind.
VR videos are as available on some private torrents, as regular videos.
The sites I use provide at least 3-4 new mainstream videos every day (each in 2 or more resolutions).
There are also some niche content providers, VR for different fetishes.
Site vrpornhit dot com can be used as a news board listing new mainstream releases.
A pattern that goes back centuries. Every new communication technology, it seems, is used for some sort of sexual purpose.
How many years was it from the first Gutenberg Bible to the first erotic prints? We'll never know, but I bet it was less than 10.
Somebody even wrote a book about it. That, and other uses new technologies always seem to get put to.
Title something like _Drugs, Sex, and Rock And Roll" with a subtitle like "How New Technologies Advance". (I either need to memorize that title or put a link to the book in my favorites. I need the name every few years. Usually on Slashdot.)
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.
Didn't you know that granny-porn is one of the bigger "sophisticated" markets? No, seriously. Look in the "dial-a-wank" adverts of your local newspaper and you'll probably find as many granny-porn phone lines, websites and prostitutes as you will for BDSM and far more than for hardsports.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
Except you saying stuff like "virgin beta cucks" makes clear you're from this community of fine gentlemen, thus the least likely person on earth to get laid.
Sorry, pal.
No. Not really.