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[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 136 points 1 year ago

Isn't allowing the porn industry to be able to use your hardware crucial for widespread adoption? Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the fact that Betamax and HDDVD did this was one of the factors for their loss of market share?

[-] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 86 points 1 year ago

There's an excellent video by technology connections in which he mentions this. Turns out, sort of not true. That said, in the modern day, that 100% is gonna be the case, IMHO. Porn flows like wine anymore, and people aren't going to want to adopt some weird pornless tech.

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 54 points 1 year ago

Porn flows like wine

I find that it doesn't necessarily flow freely, but rather is expelled in short bursts

[-] HjFUN@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

There are exercises for that, to build up range

[-] lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago
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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 35 points 1 year ago

in the early-mid 90s online porn pushed tech to the limit in so many ways. first spammers were serious porn hustlers. from my pov of watching the interwebs develop, porn pushed the multimedia boundaries. and here we are again.

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Your not wrong. After all, that's why Google blew up, and Nintendo.

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

According to DVD, yes.

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[-] VulKendov@reddthat.com 97 points 1 year ago

Well then WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT I just wanna pretend to have sex with my ai generated girlfriend. But here I am COCKBLOCKED BY TIM FUCKING COOK.

[-] trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 year ago

ChatGPT/OpenAI also doesn't allow for AI generated girlfriends as part of their usage policy.

We truly are living in the worse timeline

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[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Who is Tim and why is he fucking the cook

[-] Doombot1@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Tim we have to cook

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you very much Tim Apple

[-] casmael@lemm.ee 75 points 1 year ago

Tbh I can’t think of any applications for this product that don’t involve porn

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

I play elite dangerous in VR as well as several other sims. (Including a proper training sim for RC aircraft with a connected TX.)

If you go full hog with physical switches and everything positioned perfectly…. It can be extremely immersive technology. Like train surgeons immersive.

[-] ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago

Porn sounds cheaper and less embarrassing to explain to a date.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Not really. She knows I'm a nerd. Not that I can afford a set up like that, but, I wouldn't mind it.

As a desktop replacement although I fancy Visor for that.

[-] supermario182@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 year ago

If you want porn get an Android

[-] Eggyhead@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not even the phone. Just a real, literal android.

[-] spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Or literally anything else with a screen

[-] hightrix@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Yet.

Give the porn industry time.

[-] Labotomized@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Im so confused why this wouldn’t work and I didn’t see anywhere in the article the actual reason. Can anyone explain it better? Can you not just play a vr video file? Is it blocking the sites? I’m just confused.

[-] ylai@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My understanding is that it allows you to play planar video from a website, but not (yet?) side-loaded videos that are spherical/hemispherical. And the latter is what these people really wanted for this application.

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 38 points 1 year ago

side-loaded videos

Fucking Apple lol, just let people play video files, this should be basic minimum functionality

I saw another comment earlier that said its easy to switch on WebXR, which enables VR Porn, it's just disabled by default.

[-] 69420@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

these people

lol, right 😉

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

You know, all those other unwholesome, dirty people who aren't me.

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

They'll just monitor everything you watch or do on it and detect anything NSFW.

I wish this was a /s but I can definitely see it happening since they'd have to ban the whole Internet to keep any sites with NSFW content from playing

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[-] Ironfist@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

aaawwww... (closes wallet)

[-] mingistech@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

It works, you just have to adjust a few settings.

Apps > Safari > advanced > features flags

And you need to turn these 3 things on WebXR Device API, WebXR Augmented Reality Module, and WebXR Gamepads Module.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 21 points 1 year ago

Well that's shit. Even my OG Rift can do that.

Pretty sure there's an open standard for VR as well (WebXR), Chrome supports it but Firefox doesn't.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Lots of smartphones can do VR video too, when you add a set of VR goggles that fit it. Just plain goggles with no electronics that hold the phone in front of lenses that you can strap on your face. It's simple enough that it should be possible on any VR display system actually.

[-] Numberone@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

A friend of mine wants to know how that works....

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

Well I wouldn't know, but my friend tells me that if you go to https://vr.stripchat.com/ , put on your headset, click the big Enter VR button and then click allow, then you will be connected to a bunch of ladies who definitely are not Russian despite all being quite Russian, but also do not care much for wearing clothes.

In surprisingly high detail and framerate at that.

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[-] wahming@monyet.cc 12 points 1 year ago

I'm confused, are there no media player apps for the apple headset? Any such app would allow for playing vr videos

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago
[-] wahming@monyet.cc 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Maven@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The porn only plays on a flat screen. It doesn't support 180 or 360 degree video.

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[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

VR tech is still too new for it to have mass appeal, the tech has to come down in price first before anything will happen in this space

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 22 points 1 year ago

VR has been around as a technology for decades.

We are now at a point where people can walk around with a VR headset in without dying.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Any one remember Nintendo’s Virtual Boy?

[-] ordellrb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Betamax VR.

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