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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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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.
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.
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
My sex life was great after getting married - maybe even better than before. The we had the kid ...
Yep, even going back...
...to the printing press (invented 1440), which between printing copies of the Bible, printed steamy sex stories.
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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And coal mining companies profit from the objectification of men.
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
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. :)
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...Are why we replace you with porn.
Get over it.
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