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Porn producers eyeing Google's Project Glass for POV films
- chanux 14y agoA fellow HNer once predicted this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4168581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4168581
- gouranga 14y agoI'm dropping too many references to Black Mirror these days but it's worryingly apt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)#3._.22The_Entire_History_of_You.22 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)#3._.22...
- joshschreuder 14y agoSaw you mention it on the Google Now submission, watched it and thoroughly enjoyed it, so thanks.
- mahmud 14y agoWhat an awful but amazing episode that was. Wife and I had to verbally remind ourselves it was just fiction. (we repeatedly found ourselves stopping and rewinding scenes. How ironic!) Episode 1 was fun and entertaining. Episode 2 is a nice mid-week entertainment, nothing stellar. Episode 3 is just gut-wrenching :-)
- jgroome 14y agoThey've been using spy glasses for years though, haven't they? I, er, would have thought.
- mikk0j 14y agoA friend hypothesized coming up with a 'reverse doomsday clock', which would count down to the estimated time when virtual sex would that much more satisfying than real sex that the species would stop reproducing. It's ticking down.
- sneak 14y agoNo, it's not.
- jgrahamc 14y agoHas your friend had sex? Being less pejorative. Imagine that that scenario comes about. It would not mean an end to reproduction. People reproduce out of the desire to reproduce, not the desire to have sex.
- gillianseed 14y agoIs 'your friend' a virgin by any chance? It does sound like 'wishful thinking' more than a realistic proposition. The idea strikes me as something only someone never having had a sexual relationship with someone they love could ever come up with, as I dare say the emotional connection between two persons having sex vastly outmatches any physical expertise when it comes to the satisfaction one gets from the act. 'Virtual sex' could never replace that, at best it could perhaps eradicate the need for prostitution. Also it's not as if people having kids is just a by-product of having great sex ending in a contraception malfunction. People in general want kids, even turning to artificial insemination or adoption should they need to. Why would this change in the extremely hypothetical situation of virtual sex being more satisying than real sex?
- icebraining 14y agoParent just said 'virtual sex', not 'virtual sex with strangers'. It could provide a better experience with the same person you already share a deep emotional connection with.
- saturdaysaint 14y agoAt best it could perhaps eradicate the need for prostitution As silly as the parent posts' hypothesis is, this is actually an interesting speculation. You don't need to go too sci-fi to imagine a point where the quality and ease of video chat outweighs the risks of a lot of riskier sexual behaviors. Heh, as distasteful as ChatRoulette could be, I wonder if it's a portent of an actual positive change.
- sneak 14y agoThis is dumb sensationalist bullshit of the highest order. We've had helmetcams for years.
- jgrahamc 14y agoWhat nonsense. If they wanted to use a headmounted camera for filming pornography then there's nothing stopping them. There are plenty of such cameras around.
- avar 14y agoThere's plenty of head-mounted gear they could use, but presumably they'd be more interested in a combination of innocuous and film quality.
- ergo14 14y agoI can imagine that this "nonsense" would have some pretty good use cases in live performances etc. Think webcam, erotic theatre shows etc.
- stcredzero 14y agoWhat, you mean Pay-Per-View audiences voting on what the performers do next?
- ergo14 14y agoI never used a service like that, so I wouldn't know ;-) But this sounds right.
- melvinmt 14y agoThink "Porn Hangouts".
- molmalo 14y agoPorn is all about close range shots. Glass is just useless in close range... too much shakes. It's better for mid or long range. that's why I see it hard to use for that kind of use.
- cbr 14y agoYoutube can already remove shakiness from videos pretty well: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2012/03/improving-video-awesomeness-with-one.html http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2012/03/improving-video-a... Panda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mELK9xE17Bc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mELK9xE17Bc Panda-stabilized: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifpekKhlGmM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifpekKhlGmM
- slantyyz 14y agoUrm, the fast and violent head movements during this type of shooting are way worse than most image stabilization systems can handle. I would think that the extremely shaky and erratic results of videos shot by a glass cam (think Blair Witch Project) for this purpose would likely induce nausea more than anything else.
- danso 14y agoUgh I hope this doesn't spawn another round of the meme that the porn industry is the first influencers on tech. I think the iPad, and the massive dckine of the studios prior to that, has put that claim to rest
- nicholassmith 14y agoWhich will be interesting, because I imagine Glass will be able to stream video so not only can you record the sexy-party-time but you can also distribute it to every horny nerd who can watch it vaguely innocuously. It may not be the end of reproduction, but it'll be the end of having a meeting without thinking "Are they paying attention or watching porn?".
- Tichy 14y agoMaybe it would be more interesting to overlay the image of your sex partner with something else. Hm, I am sure live instruction manuals will be bestsellers too (even though nonsensical, but the things people buy...). Or what if the computer would be better than humans at detecting real arousal? No more faking it in the bed room. The sky might fall in?
- Sunlis 14y agoI would have guessed that they would be more interested in a virtual reality sort of setup, where they overlay the actors/actresses on your parts so you're "part of the action". Instead they want to use this marvelous piece of technology to replace a hat, a camera and some tape.
- AznHisoka 14y ago"We're just hoping we don't end up seeing the point of view shots of the bottom of a Cheetos bag with all the nerds that'll be playing with this thing" It won't be just nerds playing with this thing. I'll be 90% of men, and a good amount of women as well.