Since the invention of the printing press, the adult industry has been advancing new technologies, sometimes opening up new technologies. Many mainstream technologies, such as VCR and DVD, streaming video, encryption, and even credit card verification, have more or less been counted as porn credits. Will VR be the next one?
Anna Lee's answer is: "110%." She is the president of two adult entertainment companies in Vancouver. "Eroticity is actually the driving force behind sales promotion."
Anna Lee
In 2005, Lee co-founded Utherverse, an adult social network. More than a year ago, she founded HoloFilm Productions, a VR movie studio. Lee is very optimistic about porn as the driving force for innovation in VR, and there are good reasons. HoloFilm’s monthly HR product “HoloGirls†will increase its monthly user base by 30%.
BaDoinkVR is a VR adult entertainment maker in New York. CEO Todd Glider revealed that the company has increased its active users by about 1000% in the past year.
Todd Glider
He said: "The potential and commitment of VR pornography to coincide with VR is better than any other media. If you compare a good VR porn video with any 2D porn video, the difference is so naked, direct, and sincere. You can only admit one possibility. : This new technology is the next mass media."
Although hard data in the adult industry is often not transparent, Google Trends shows that in the past year, the search for interest in VR pornography has gone far beyond VR games, movies or sports.
The future of AR and pornography
Most "HoloGirls" movies are shot from the first person male perspective. In other words, a person wearing a head-down look down to see where he is is a male body. The porn stars in the film interact with the audience as if they were in the same room.
HoloFilm
Lee thinks this is just the beginning, and the highly sophisticated AR experience is the next frontier in pornography.
She said: "I think the final scene is that you look down to see the girl sitting in your own lap. She will be in your room, augmented reality in reality."
Glider also sees the great potential of this experience. However, he quickly pointed out that mixed reality adult entertainment is still in the 1.0 stage. "It will look like, more importantly, it feels like there's a porn star in your apartment. Think about what you've seen with HoloLens: it's not that the shark is swimming in the air, you will see something like August Ames ( (Adult actress) people sit at the table. I'm sure it will take only a few years. It's expensive to produce something that requires a much larger market than it is today, but it will happen."
Mainstream applications, such as Pokémon Go and Snapchat, have already shown consumers a great appetite for AR experience. San Diego Adult Film Studio Naughty America CIO Ian Paul believes that they are preparing for AR pornography.
"AR porn may be implemented on your mobile phone first. Putting an actor into your environment, much like the Pokemon we've seen, will eventually evolve into an actor jumping on your bed. But we still have distance."
Lee said that time will require more sophisticated hardware to read the environment and actors in the environment.
Girlfriend experience
When Lee began making VR experiences for HoloFilm, she thought that the kind of hard work that was popular in traditional movies would work best. Unexpectedly, she found that VR drives a different market. The company made the most popular VR movie to provide "girlfriend experience" and create a more intimate and realistic scene than you normally see in pornography.
"They are looking for more natural penis sizes and more natural-looking girls. They gradually abandon the false docile image and turn to another scenario: the girl kisses you, looks into your eyes and tells you how much she wants to be with you."
Like HoloFilm, BaDoink's customers are also most excited about the first person perspective. The personal relationship between the audience and the actor is the differentiation of this new medium.
Glider said: "The most popular thing is that the actor really knows how to make love to the camera. It is eye contact, making connections, starting with the eyes."
As a woman, Lee is happy to see more realistic, respectful adult experiences. If VR helps “girlfriends experience†pornography fire up, the adult industry’s criticism may ease.
Many young people first experience sexuality through pornography, and the kind of distortion and intimacy it depicts can lead to unrealistic expectations. Can VR correct this by switching from peepers to participants?
Lee said: "VR is to simulate reality. It is virtual reality. What people want most? Connect with another person."
The new frontier of pornography
But all this is a matter of perspective. VR may reduce the sarcasm of pornographic encounters. At the same time, it also fundamentally changes our relationship with technology. Simulation intimacy will bring a lot of problems to the real relationship. People may also use VR media to realize illusions with unprecedented sense of reality. Whether this is good or bad is entirely another argument.
VR is a new frontier for entertainment, but it is still a wild wilderness. Just as streaming video, online payment, and other technologies emerged, nobody until VR will become.
The adult industry has benefited from its large and loyal customer base and has the courage to assume the risks of new technologies.
Lee said: “There has been some cool content into the mainstream and there will be more in the future. But now, when you go through any of your heads, I guess 75% is adult content.â€
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