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[–] [email protected] 137 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 84 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Porn flows like wine

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

There are exercises for that, to build up range

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Porn also pushed the advent of secure online monetary transactions.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

ha! that reminds me, i had a friend tell me he had to modify their database because they never expected a single transaction to reach that amount. a lot of deep pockets came out of the woodwork back then

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

According to DVD, yes.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Who is Tim and why is he fucking the cook

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Tim we have to cook

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Thank you very much Tim Apple

[–] [email protected] 74 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Train surgeons does sound pretty extreme and immersive, but I feel like I'm about to be disappointed by a typo

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you want porn get an Android

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Or literally anything else with a screen

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yet.

Give the porn industry time.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

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 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

side-loaded videos

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I mean, they just got type-c. Remember when the first iPhone couldn't send picture texts?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

these people

lol, right 😉

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

aaawwww... (closes wallet)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

My friend appreciates your friend. 🖖

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (6 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Betamax VR.

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