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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 130 points 2 years 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?

[–] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 78 points 2 years 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.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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 2 years ago

There are exercises for that, to build up range

[–] lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 32 points 2 years 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.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Porn also pushed the advent of secure online monetary transactions.

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

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

According to DVD, yes.

[–] VulKendov@reddthat.com 86 points 2 years ago (1 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.

[–] trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 2 years 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

[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can always download something like llamacpp or gpt4all and plug in any gguf-compatible nsfw model from huggingface. OpenAI are a bunch of wankers that dont deserve your cum.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 71 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years 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.

As a desktop replacement although I fancy Visor for that.

[–] supermario182@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you want porn get an Android

[–] Eggyhead@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Or literally anything else with a screen

[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yet.

Give the porn industry time.

[–] Labotomized@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years 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.

[–] ylai@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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@programming.dev 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

side-loaded videos

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

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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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 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

these people

lol, right 😉

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years 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

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 points 2 years ago

Nah They already have quest and that unit blows up high rez porn shorts first time you boot it. It's too lucrative they just want the optics here

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[–] mingistech@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years 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 19 points 2 years 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.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years 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.

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

My friend appreciates your friend. 🖖

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] wahming@monyet.cc 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Maven@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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[–] ordellrb@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Betamax VR.

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