Virtual reality has been a common trope in mainstream media for the last 50 years or so, contributing to the realization of our wildest imaginations. It wasn’t until 2014 that VR, as we know it, became available to the masses with Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus. And whenever a new type of media becomes popularized, it’s not long before someone figures out how to integrate porn into it.
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The Past Fuels the Future
For many people, virtual reality technology is still a niche model for social interaction and may even be considered a fad by others. While VR has only really become available on a more mainstream level in the last five years, it was in 1838 when English scientist Sir Charles Wheatstone first described stereopsis, referring to a basic understanding of depth perception that is still used today in the creation of VR.
Yes, you read that correctly! That headset you strap on to explore the future has a lot of history behind it. I’m not here to bog you down with 200 years of details, but I do think it’s important to examine the last few years and how it has opened the door to a whole new metaverse of sexuality with some of the most immersive porn in the industry.
Welcome to a Virtual World
The year 2014 was huge for the development of virtual reality. Although it was quietly gaining popularity underground with tech savants and developers, Facebook acquired Oculus Studios that year, propelling the industry forward at an unprecedented rate. In the same year, Google released their inexpensive Cardboard stereoscopic viewer and Samsung released a similarly inexpensive HMD called the Gear, which allowed users to access VR content through their smartphones effortlessly.
Ela Darling, known to some as the Queen of VR Porn, was the first pornstar to successfully integrate VR into a live cam show. The tech took off from there when legendary adult site Naughty America introduced their VR-porn spinoff site, inviting top stars to explore the next level of simulated sex play with their fans.
Discover the Current Porn Metaverse
Right now, there is a huge amount of porn just waiting to be consumed by enthusiasts. Top studios like VR Bangers, BaDoink VR, and Virtual Real Porn are releasing new content several times per week, and it’s rare to find a pornstar who isn’t involved in these types of shoots now. This kind of porn does have its limitations though since it’s not overly customizable. When you choose a scene, it was a producer who dictated what a model is wearing, what location she’s in, and what she says to you.
There are virtual porn games, however, that are far more immersive. You embody an avatar version of yourself and can engage with CGI performers in extended reality strip clubs, brothels, and other outdoor locations. In games like VR Paradise and VR Kanojo, you can customize the physique of your model, dress her from a collection of outfits and even choose the positions you want to fuck her in. It’s all up to you!
Is 360° VR Porn Overrated?
Outside of porn, 360-degree environments and 6DoF capability are important to the immersion a user encounters. A 360-degree environment allows you to turn in all directions while wearing your headset, and an experience with 6DoF means there is heightened tracking technology allowing you to move around within your chosen digital space (think of it like seeing yourself, or an avatar of yourself, moving freely). You can imagine how this makes VR gaming, for example, an almost out-of-body experience.
In porn, however, shooting in 360 degrees isn’t as efficient or as necessary. In a typical POV BG scene, all the action you came for is happening right in front of you, so unless you’re super interested in the bedroom decor, you don’t need to have a 360-degree field of view. That’s why most studios only offer their scenes in 180 degrees. Honestly, I’d rather focus on a pair of tits over a dresser any day!
Don’t get me wrong though, there is a place for 360-degree VR porn. Let me set the stage for you. You walk into a large room, soft music plays, there are beautiful people in every direction. That’s when you realize you’ve walked in on a huge orgy! Gorgeous girls moan as they’re fucked in every position and you’re invited to join in when two of them approach you, kneel down and immediately pleasure you.
VR Porn is Good For Your Health
There is now science behind the theory that watching porn in a virtual environment instead of in 2D offers extra advantages to both a person’s mental health and physical health. Since the brain has a harder time distinguishing “real life” from the digital world being visited, a person responds as if they’re literally having sex with their favorite pornstar from the comfort of their own couch.
As if that isn’t impressive enough, there is a plethora of teledildonics that can be twinned with VR porn videos. What are teledildonics? These are smart sex toys that can be used to elevate your virtual porn exploration by working in unison with the scene you’re watching, meaning when a babe slowly slides down on you, you’ll feel every single second of it as though it’s happening in real life.
Life, in general, has changed drastically over the past year and a half due to the worldwide pandemic. With the closure of social spaces and the growing anxiety of being separated from friends, family, and lovers, VR porn can be a safe and stimulating outlet to maintain a healthy sex life. Even outside of the pandemic, there are parts of the population that struggle with social anxiety in “real life” but thrive in similar situations that are simulated. It’s been reported that this type of porn may also help people gain more self-confidence.
Anticipate Your Digital Fate
As is the case with many tech innovations, the porn industry is often a major player in their advancement. Right now, you can watch porn with the click of a button from the phone in your pocket. Or you can put on a headset and engage with the same pornstars in immersive environments that were a figment of our imaginations only 100 years ago.
In five more years, it’s likely that porn enthusiasts will have the ability to virtually enter a digitally created world where they can meet and interact with real-life pornstars enabled with full-body tracking. In 10 years, we could be wearing mind drives that transport us into virtual universes that aren’t even distinguishable from real life a la Black Mirror. Gosh, aren’t you excited? I know I am! Where do you see VR porn going in the future?
