360º VR Porn Is Great If You Want to Watch Anything But Sex
With Oculus Rift, Project Morpheus, Vive, and other virtual reality headsets coming out soon, a number of companies are already competing for the inevitable virtual reality porn market.
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A new start-up called VirtualPorn360 hopes to differentiate itself in this new space by becoming “the first company in the world to broadcast and market pornographic experiences in 360 degrees for virtual reality devices like the Oculus Rift.”
Now I know what you’re thinking. There’s no shortage of virtual reality porn out there already. To name just a few examples, Japanese sex toy maker Tenga is making a kind of robot arm you can bone for more immersive virtual reality experiences, and Chathouse 3D is like World of Warcraft, but for hooking up virtually.
VirtualRealPorn already does something that looks almost exaclty like VirtualPorn360, namely recording real human performers with special cameras for a more immersive experience. The difference is that VirtualRealPorn offers only a 180 degree viewing angle (with the performers being the obvious point of focus), while VirtualPorn360, as its name implies, has a full 360 degree viewing angle.
This means that you can look away from the couple getting it on on the pleather sofa, turn around, and look around the creepy apartment that I’m assuming is used for little else but shooting porn.
It works as advertised! You can download a sample movie from VirtualPorn360’s website and see it on your Oculus Rift (there are DK1 and DK2 versions), or watch it above thanks to YouTube adding 360 degree video support earlier this year. Not to be outdone by Google, Facebook will soon let you share these 360 videos with your friends and family thanks to its own 360 video player.
If you want to see the more explicit samples that can’t be uploaded to YouTube, you can download a video from VirtualPorn360, and look around the room with a free 360 video player like Kolor Eyes.
I am not sure why you would want to do this. Conceding Rule 34, which posits that there are people out there that would get off on the ability to look away from the porn and just hear the exaggerated moaning and fleshy flapping while they stare at anything else, this doesn’t seem very useful or hot.
Maybe future productions can put you in the center of Caligula-like orgies where you’re surrounded by porn no matter where you look, but for now VirtualPorn360 has the same problem a lot of VR companies have. They have the technology, they just don’t know what to do with it.
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Porn Time has hit a new milestone: 1 million downloads. The app launched on June 7 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and for Android on June 18. Today’s announcement comes on July 2, meaning Porn Time has hit the seven-digit mark in less than a month.
As its name implies, Porn Time is the naughty version of Popcorn Time, the infamous app for streaming video torrents. It handles pornographic movies for you: Instead of you using a torrent client and a media player, the app takes care of grabbing the torrent file, downloading the content, and the playback all in one.
“Porn Time has exploded in a way that in my wildest dreams did I, not the team think was possible,” the lead developer, who goes just by the name “Richard,” told VentureBeat. “Frankly I don’t think Popcorn Time had this many downloads in their first month…”
That’s certainly true, as Porn Time is benefiting from the success of Popcorn Time, which has been around for more than a year. And yet it’s still impressive: As we noted during the app’s launch, “unlike Hollywood movies and mainstream TV shows, high-quality pornography is readily available to stream for free online. There are plenty of sites that serve pornographic videos without having users sign up, download, or pay anything.”
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Despite this, users around the world are clearly interested in Porn Time. The team shared the top countries with us: The U.S. leads with 13 percent of all installs, followed by Brazil with 10 percent and France with 9 percent.
To celebrate the milestone, the Porn Time has added a new feature: “The Panic Button.” If you find yourself in a situation where you need to, err, quickly stop watching porn, just press the z letter on your keyboard three times. Porn Time will immediately hide the porn and “switch to random geeky movies on YouTube.”
Yet just like with Popcorn Time, the real story here is the popularity of the app on mobile devices. Since the June 18 launch, the Android app now accounts for 46 percent of daily downloads.
It’s thus no surprise that an iOS app is in the works. Porn Time will hit iOS “very soon” for both jailbroken and non-jailbroken devices, just like Popcorn Time.
The Porn Time team says it will naturally continue to focus on expanding content, including adding more sources and more genres. Yet their ambitions don’t end there.
“We can’t wait for the release of Oculus Rift beginning of 2016… We’re still not sure how we’ll do this, but we know that it’ll be the perfect match,” Richard told VentureBeat. “Oculus Rift and Porn Time. And making Porn Time support and offer content to be viewed on Oculus Rift is our ultimate goal.”
The Internet is for porn? Apparently Porn Time is betting the sequel will be “virtual reality is for porn.”
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