![]() In terms of revenue that will make the headset industry worth $4 billion, less than eight years after Oculus was first seen by the world.īut the problems still remain when it comes to content: if there’s nothing to watch on your shiny new VR headset then why buy it in the first place? Enter porn. At the top end is Luckey’s Oculus, a $599 PC-powered device complete with hand held tools to allow you to see your hands in virtual reality.Īs a result, Juniper Research forecasts that wearable VR HMD (Head Mounted Display) shipments will hit three million this year and balloon to ten times that amount by 2020. At the bottom end of the market is Google’s cardboard – a $25 make-it-yourself headset designed to work with your smartphone. Companies across the world have been falling over themselves to make hardware. James Cormack, the co-founder of id Software was so impressed by what Luckey had achieved he announced that Doom would be compatible with Heads Up Displays (HUD), including Oculus.įrom that moment, VR has exploded into our consciousness once more. The problem, despite its size and cost was a lack of titles and content to keep people satisfied, leaving VR to Hollywood and our collective imagination.īut in 2012, a student by the name of Palmer Luckey went to E3 and showed off a very early prototype of his head mounted display called Oculus. Remember these?Ī company called Virtuality produced big, cumbersome machines that could only fit inside arcades and cost a small fortune to play. The term ‘virtual tourism’ was first coined when machines that merged two stereoscopic images were installed in public spaces way back in 1939 – it wasn’t until 1991 that consumers had their first taste of alternate realities we now refer to as VR today. There have been many iterations on this concept of creating worlds like our own throughout history. This is the story of how porn is taming VR – and quietly converting the concept into a fully-fledged – and profitable – industry. If companies like Badoink are going all-in on VR, the rest of the world could soon be following suit. It’s a bold move.īut the porn industry has pedigree when it comes to picking winners in the tech space ( VHS over Betamax, Blu-ray over HD-DVD) – and in some cases, been partly responsible for the death of a few along the way (Laserdisc, anyone?). The video in question was produced by BaDoink, a porn production company that feels so strongly about the medium that it has abandoned producing regular movies in favour of virtual ones. For the entire duration of the scene I could quite happily explore my surroundings with a simple turn of the head. It was the experience I just had wearing Google Cardboard and watching virtual reality porn. The above isn’t the description of some tawdry fantasy of mine. The world’s greatest vacuum cleaner salesman VR porn I appear to be the best vacuum cleaner salesman of all time. I look around, I can see the garden off to the right and what looks like the kitchen. ![]() Within second, my host is in between my legs and is unbuttoning her shirt. The woman meanwhile is attempting to clean the shaggy carpet using my vacuum cleaner – although it doesn’t appear to be plugged in. ![]() The fire is on, I can see Hollywood from the terrace to my left. The next thing I know I’m sat in an open-plan living area. She grabs the vacuum cleaner I’m holding in my hand and smiles before saying, “I’ve been meaning to replace my sucker for some time.” She invites me inside. She greets me by saying “hello handsome” as if we’ve met before. I knock on the door and a woman in a white shirt and black skirt opens the door.
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