Pornhub Unveils Free VR Porn Channel (pcworld.com) 91
An anonymous reader writes from an article on PCWorld: Big-name pornography website Pornhub has partnered with BadoinkVR, an early mover and shaker in VR porn, to launch a new section dedicated to immersive adult videos, aka VR porn. "Virtual reality is the next phase in the constantly metamorphosing world of adult entertainment, and will provide users with a mesmeric experience unlike anything they've seen before," Pornhub Vice President Corey Price said in a press release. "Now, our users are not only able to view our content, but be protagonists in the experience and interact with their favorite porn stars." The videos are roughly five-minute-long trailers designed to hook you on the VR porn experience. If you want the full videos, you'll need to sign up for a subscription with BadoinkVR itself, which will unlock the service's full adult-video selection starting at $20 per month. Pornhub is giving away 10,000 free pairs of branded Google Cardboard VR glasses if you are interested in trying out the experience but lack a VR headset.
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Can I see the Golden Girls in VR Porn? I always had a thing for Rue McClanahan.
You would rue the day you got your wish.
Um... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Um... (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually, what you're seeing might well be the birth of "real" VR. Meaning VR which actually might have a chance at success. Porn sells. It sells a lot. Porn has helped to make VHS, DVD, the Internet, and really adjusted some 'blue laws' and indecency laws over the years. It has helped strengthen the freedom of the press, speech, and helped fund technologies that may have had a hard time without it.
I've been reasonably skeptical of how much or how well VR would take off this time - compared to the earlier iterations. If this is done well, if this is done at all like people are hoping, then this is likely a boon for the VR industry that they really probably weren't outwardly expressing hope for. (I'm guessing they sure as hell were hoping for it to take off but just weren't saying anything aloud and in public. There's probably a hidden memo or two out there.) It's mildly amusing but it wouldn't be the first thing to be heavily influenced by pornographic uses. Home theaters, home video recording, probably even higher-end video cameras.
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Hard time huhuhuhuhuhuh
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VR porn is going to change how people use porn quite fundamentally. Because no-one else can see the screen, it will be possible to use porn in all sorts of places. Where once the kids in the living room might have avoided playing DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball or selecting the micro bikini DLC outfit, now they can do it right in front of their parents. Someone could be sat on the subway with their VR headset on (they will soon shrink in size, with basic ones being little larger than sunglasses).
Of course the
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VR porn is going to change how people use porn quite fundamentally.
As long as it is handie, it will be a sucksess.
once again, porn leads the way (Score:2)
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Re:once again, porn leads the way (Score:5, Insightful)
Anyone who doesn't see robotics advancing because of pleasure-bots just isn't thinking about it yet.
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Beta had porn. This is a meme that needs to die.
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Yes. The porn industry's decision to go VHS was a nail in the coffin of Beta.
Anyone who doesn't see robotics advancing because of pleasure-bots just isn't thinking about it yet.
Are you saying that some day I won't even be able to resort to prostitution without fear of my job being outsourced or automated away? Great. What a brave new world.
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Once we really start the Mecha's formal advertising campaign, we're going to focus on the advantages of the disease-free machinery.
Just going to leave this here... (Score:2)
Isn't this when the Dude said... (Score:3)
...."I still jerk off manually."
Test drive (Score:2)
Re: Smut peddler.. (Score:2)
Go fuck your self... ;)
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Do you mean he should play the single-player campaign?
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Go fuck your self... ;)
I see what you did there.
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if you are watching VR porn with a Google Cardboard VR
... then you'll soon be needing Google Tissues or Google Moist Towlettes.
SubjectIsSubject (Score:2)
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I actually got 3 Google Cardboards during the Verizon/Star Wars promotion and then a 4th when Google was giving them away for free. (That final deal only lasted a short time as people flooded their servers with requests.) My kids and I love them for watching 3D videos, rollercoaster apps, and just browsing Google Street View (go anywhere in the world and Google will show you a 3D panorama view of that location - it's like taking a mini-vacation minus the long plane ride). With the right 3D app and a good set of bluetooth headphones, it can even get quite immersive. It's definitely not as good as an Occulus Rift or another expensive VR headset, but it's very inexpensive.
Google actually published the specs so you could make one out of about $8 in parts and an old pizza box. Or you could buy a kit for about $10 on Amazon and put it together yourself. I found this one [amazon.com] after a little searching. I haven't bought from that seller so I can't personally vouch for them, but the ratings seem decent. And at least you'll be able to show your friends it without uncomfortable "PornHub?!!!" questions.
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You can get one for something like $5, shipped via airmail, from China, I know I did.
Oaky....... (Score:3)
Alrighty....now that's the kind of innovation and useful technological creativity I've come to expect from the interweb.
brb, off to buy a VR headset
Necessary accessory (Score:2)
The Pimp-Boy, a personal computing device strapped to the character's wrist, allows the player to access a menu with statistics, anatomical charts, gynecological data, player health, and remaining ammo load. Don't use Pornhub VR without it!
Mobile tech not quite there yet (Score:5, Interesting)
I have a couple of smartphones: an HTC One M7 (which can decode sphere mapped stereo videos with 4k x 1.5k res in hardware, but can only do about 5fps), and a newer cheaper smartphone with a full HD screen, and which can only hw decode lower resolution and has inaccurate jumpy gyroscope. I would imagine that things like the Omimo headset are something to watch for in future (where you can either connect to a PC, or stick an sd card with the 3d movie into it and have it play that. But I think we need to let the hardware side mature for a couple of years, and indeed the filming tech. That said, this is probably a far more productive avenue for them to explore than 4k, though 4k porn with interactive zoom (with or without side by side for a headset) would, again, be something to look out for.
In all these cases, I can see porn blazing a trail in many areas, and other niches of video following them in (for example videos of sports out of the mainstream -- imagine having a 3d 120fps recording of something like a squash match, though tech for this sort of thing isn't there yet). In addition, with regards to the free vs. pay model that is emerging, this is something the entire content industry needs to watch. I think the porn industry is learning that there needs to be sufficient free material to satisfy demand somewhat so as to alleviate the pressure to pirate, and high quality paid material for those willing to pay a little (and at present, for what you can get for about $100, it really is only a little).
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Tech absolutely is there. s6 runs 3d stereo movies, right?
And watching squash in 3D the way you imagine sounds like the WORST! You'd constantly be looking around, it would be impossible to follow the action. I love 3D video. But I think they best way to handle it is when the action is generally in one area, and the 3D allows for either atmosphere, or an entirely different area of focus. It's like being in the audience at a concert...even if you generally keep your eyes forward at the singer, it's cool
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I can't personally comment on squash matches or sports in general but I can picture a market for a 3D VR sports package where you get to experience sitting in the best seat possible at a fraction of the cost. Or front row at a concert instead of having to choose between sitting in the nosebleed seats or draining your wallet dry. I can also picture 3D VR gaming arenas where you compete with other people in live versions of first person shooters. (Think high tech laser tag.) I'm not sure if it's going to
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I think the action that pornhub intends to distribute, generally happens in one area.
Or is that my lack of imagination?
Doesn't sound like "VR" to me (Score:2)
“Now, our users are not only able to view our content, but be protagonists in the experience and interact with their favorite porn stars.”
Really? "Interact" would suggest that one can partake in some form of activity with them (think we can figure out which) and that they'll respond accordingly. I'd hardly count being able to view different parts of an otherwise fixed video- by moving my head- as "interactive" with the performers in a
That explains... (Score:4, Funny)
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I wouldn't touch that headset again if I were you.
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Not surprising, since the website is badoinkvr.com (with an i). Typo domains suck.
Five Minute Trailer? (Score:2)
What am I supposed to do with the remaining four minutes?
Giveaway slashdotted (Score:2)
All 10k units are gone.
Hmm (Score:2)
This makes me think of one of the funnier things that a friend of mine once said:
"Watching porn in HDTV was a baaaaaad idea..."
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It was presented quite nicely in Ringworld series from Larry Niven.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
[...]
wireheading is the most addictive habit known [...], and wireheads usually die from neglecting themselves in favour of the ceaseless pleasure. Wireheading is so powerful and easy that it becomes an evolutionary pressure, selecting against that portion of Known Space humanity without self-control.
[...]
study in which experimental rats had electrodes implanted at strategic locations in their brains,
Backdoors! (Score:2)
Why did this take so long? (Score:2)
Back in the day I was playing Quake 2 a lot.. a whole lot. One late night I was a mostly empty server chatting with a female (well she claimed to be at least) & she sent me skins that she was using. She kept switching from one to another & I had a epiphany of what the future held. Yes it was late & got a bit weirded out.
But I really thought that VR porn (hell VR anything) was only a couple years away & we are talking 1998 for christsake. What has taken so freaking long for this tech
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Yes I know, VR headsets or cardboard boxes you stick your phone in... Someone actually had a monitor/helmet thing back in the 90s, a friend of mine had one & I tried it, not at all VR. It cost him $700! Some people got motion sickness back then, my brother was one, just playing a shooter on a CRT. What I wanna see is Snow Crash like VR dangit!
Q2 had the skins, but it really was just for laughs, nothing porno about IMO. & yea they had porn style crap video games back in the 80s, forget the na
that explains the stupid things (Score:1)
i've been wondering what they were actually for.
stupid wankers.