Although you once bought a disc, flipped past a wall, and secretly subscribed to a movie, you cannot make a due contribution to the adult entertainment industry globally. It still can not withstand the trend of the times and immersive experience of virtual reality VR. Technology came together. Relying on VR technology, more and more true adult entertainment is moving toward the spring of industrial reform, or is it going to the other extreme in the pursuit of being too real and explicit?
Adult entertainment industry and VR blowout
Science is the primary productive force. Therefore, the adult entertainment industry, which is one of the manifestations of the desires of men and women, is bound to have a close connection with science and technology. From filmmakers to video tapes, from offline to online, from rental to The subscription, adult entertainment industry quickly adapts to the development of technology and changes in people's spending habits in all aspects. Piper Jaffray, an investment banking and asset management analyst, now predicts that by 2025, adult entertainment movies will become the third largest content in the VR industry following games and sports broadcasts. After the VR technology got fired up, there was a constant media advocacy that the adult entertainment industry was the foundation for the long-term development of the VR industry.
The implantation of VR technology in adult movies is still in the preliminary stage of entry. However, it is advancing rapidly into the mainstream. As Samsung and Oculus Rift have developed more consumer-grade VR devices, they are more private than DVDs and magazines. Personalized entertainment experiences are constantly attracting consumers in the adult entertainment industry.
Google Trend search ranking statistics, in the past year, the keyword VR Porn's search continues to climb
Although the adult entertainment industry is a traditional industry that has been going through the millennium, compared with other conservative industries, its combination with the technology industry is always at the cutting edge of the times, and it strives to provide consumers with the most diversified and sensuous stimuli. Experience, whether it is high-definition or 3D technology, adult films are the earliest replacement in the film industry. In short, in the replacement of equipment, the bosses of the adult entertainment industry are absolutely willing to pay for their capital at odds.
Therefore, the adult film provider is also committed to the development of VR content. The world’s largest pornographic website, Pornhub, launched VR channels and provided free sources. According to statistics, there were more than 20 VR videos with millions of hits when the channel was only launched for two months. According to the data of 2015, the adult entertainment industry has also achieved significant gains. The traffic volume of the top 10 VR adult websites has increased by 200%. In October 2015 alone, there were more than 3.2 million visits worldwide.
The harm of VR adult entertainment is the legend of three people becoming tigers?
For fans, the marriage of "real" VR technology and pornography is a huge breakthrough in the viewing experience. However, for the porn industry, which has always been in the gray zone, VR for real experience may bring new psychological, moral, and ethical dangers, which many experts have questioned.
Famous psychologists have questioned the infinite pursuit of authenticity in the adult entertainment industry. It may give viewers the illusion that adult entertainment is no longer a performance with fictional colors. Dr. Marty Klein of Sexology warned that “the consumers of adult films and their partners must clearly understand that what looks like a 'real' film is actually different from the actual sex act. They are fictitious.â€
Although the resources of VR adult movies are relatively scarce and the popularity of equipment is still to be seen, the experience of bringing VR caps is indeed more intense than the traditional viewing experience. UCLA professor Neil Malamuth has studied the topic of adult film for more than a decade. He told VR about adult movies. He said that VR brings more personal experiences than any other media in the past. Feeling in the same space as the film and having direct and verbal communication that was impossible in the past. Even if the eyes and language exchanges provided by VR are one-way, when the distance between the object and the viewer is nearly negligible, people will inadvertently believe in the world they see and make up for its reality in the brain. , and tend to want it to be true, resulting in a great sense of substitution.
Some people think that "reality" will soon gain the trust of the brain, while "virtual" will be abandoned by reason, and may have negative psychological and social impact. The privacy and unprecedented intuitiveness of VR may inspire the evil factors of certain people on the verge of crime. In fact, adult films have different effects on different people, and some people can taste high-quality fine wines, but some people may not be able to expose themselves to alcohol poisoning. VR-style adult videos may become an appetizer for life, and they may destroy certain people’s intelligence because of excessive sense of reality.
Although VR adult entertainment has received some warnings, there are experts who want to come out and name it. With its crimes, VR technology is innocent. Dr. David Lay, a clinical psychologist, questioned the inter-temporal nature of VR. From text fiction, to photo magazines, to tapes and DVDs, every time media media is replaced, it is for people who are in the era of transition. All of these are special, unique, and brand new experiences. The impact of these changes on the senses is not less than that of the transition from watching DVDs to wearing VR devices.
When we are accustomed to an experience, the technical reforms will always bring about the side effects of radical changes, shocking and insecure. VR's change in the adult entertainment industry is precisely the technical fear caused by this breakthrough. . After all, people who are accustomed to free resources will spend thousands of dollars exclusively on VR equipment. How long it will take for VR technology to bring considerable income to the adult entertainment industry is still unknown.
to sum up
We cannot determine the negative social impact of VR adult videos. The public opinion always tends to be wary of fresh food, media, and lifestyle. At the beginning of the 20th century, American medical experts thought that bicycles were a homosexual tendency for women. The culprit; female adult products threaten women's demand for men; even now, conservatives still feel that the adult entertainment industry is the culprit that undermines the good vision of marriage and the drop in marriage rates.
The so-called social influence is probably only waiting for history to prove. Fortunately, the rapid development of technology allows people to wait for hundreds of years to witness the miracle of change from the book. Regardless of whether this year is the first year of VR, whether next year's VR will have blowout-type development, or as Google's venture capital partner Joe Klaus predicts, we need to wait 17 years to see the maturity of VR. It will Become part of our lives. As far as VR and the adult entertainment industry can have in-depth cooperation, how much change in life, even if only a bystander, still worth the wait.