Porn has always driven the cutting edge technology of the day, from VHS videotapes to virtual reality. And now it may also push the envelope for augmented reality (AR).
ARConk, an AR porn service, debuted recently, giving consumers the ability to place animated porn stars in the real world. It remains to be seen if this kind of push will be welcome or popular, and if it will make the dreams of multibillion-dollar AR application markets come true.
Augmented reality allows creators to put animated overlays on the real world, enhancing the real world with additional information or, in the case of AR porn, imaginary objects that look like they fit in the real world. ARConk and Laidhub say they have solved the technical challenges around inserting animated objects into video landscapes. The ARConk app is available on Android now, and the companies are working on an iOS version.
ARConk has been cooperating with the owners of the porn site Laidhub, to together establish a realistic AR porn experience. Honestly, as you can see from looking at the video, this is a pretty hard task. The animated human doesn’t quite look real yet, even if it does look like it fits well into the real world environment. Still, the companies argue that they have put a lot of work into this already, and getting the human to look like it fits is a technical achievement.
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