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They want it for pr0n! Just like they wanted VCRs for pr0n. Super tangential but this documentary is about pr0n going mainstream https://www.imdb.com/title/tt
by nox101 3y ago
They want it for pr0n! Just like they wanted VCRs for pr0n.
Super tangential but this documentary is about pr0n going mainstream
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418753/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418753/
In it they point out in the 70s how the movie the documentary is about was a huge public topic of discussion. They show Phil Donahue actually telling people to go see it (or at least I remember that in my memory. If it wasn't him it was some other household name). Eventually the prudes push back and effectively get it banned from lots of places but the VCR comes out and the prudes lose.
VR pr0n is pretty amazing. It's not perfect because there's only so many things that make sense first person. But, when someone gets up close and breaths on you your brain tells you you felt something even though you know that's impossible. If you saw it and didn't find it compelling I'd suggest you ask around for some better examples.
Then there's apps like Virt-A-Mate that take to the next level by being real 3D (Game tech) instead of recorded video. They're not perfect. They have bugs. They run too slow sometimes. But, unlike video, you can change any character to anything you want. That's only going to get better. Apple might ban it but eventually it will be a reason lots of people want VR/AR
Friends at Meta already tell me their metrics say the #1 use of VR is pr0n. (no different than the internet itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites
- endisneigh 3y agowhy are you saying pr0n instead of porn? lol
- booleandilemma 3y agoMaybe he's typing on a work computer and he doesn't want to trigger some kind of nsfw censoring system. Or he's a prude.
- kalkr 3y agoTiktok and other social media sites allegedly derank posts with controversial words (suicide, porn, murder) so people butcher the words to talk about things without triggering the debooster. There isn't really evidence that this helps or hurts post discovery, so people mostly do it out of an abundance of caution, which is what seems to have happened here.
- wilsonnb3 3y agoTrue but I feel I should mention that the term pr0n specifically is much older than TikTok and modern social media censorship, more of a "leet speak" slang than a tool to avoid censors. Nowadays the youth call it corn or p*rn or just (insert corn emoji here).
- treprinum 3y agoVR pr0n is nasty because one can see all imperfections that Photoshop/Portaiture would instantly remove on 2D imagery/movies, breaking the spell. I would rather watch travel documentaries to choose my next vacation or interesting places I'd never see otherwise, like climbing something in Himalayas, visiting Galapagos, Antarctica etc. Visualizing my next house before it's built with all the views to/from the outside would be great as well.
- defrost 3y agoA thread on the future of VR demands that: > because one can see all imperfections be qualified "for now". Once upon a time 2D digital porn d/loaded scan line by scan line over several minutes in low resolution and reduced colour maps.
- treprinum 3y agoThis is different. If you ever worked with models as a photographer, you'd have noticed that many models that look great in "2D camera projection" look weirdly distorted in the real life. VR basically showcases this weirdness and what tended to be attractive in 2D is suddenly repulsive in 3D.
- defrost 3y agoThis may or may not change - if you're talking about real life (some) fleash and (some) blood X-Ray models with profiles that can cut glass then yes, they can look weird IRL actual 3d. However that may (or may not) push the use of models that live IRL and look pretty decent from most angles being used as the foundation for VR modelling. The point being, one way or another, 3D VR will likely lose the weirdness, through viewer acclimation or product delivery advancement.
- nox101 3y agoLike I said in my comment, if you saw one that didn't appeal do you then you need to watch others. There are plenty with imperfections and there are plenty without. Apparently you watched ones with and made the mistaken assumption that that was a problem with the medium itself and not with the quality of the content you saw