Virtual reality in the adult film industry

VR porn sites are increasingly popular. For example, this Teen VR Porn has had a fantastic increase in visitors in the last few months.  But what is behind them ?

“Here I am a rag doll,” says a porn actor, who walks through the set of the shooting in, a short pants, a T-shirt and a woolen hat. Those three garments are strictly the only ones he wears. He does not care what he looks like and so he talks and jokes.

He is about to start filming, but his clothes when he is at home matters little: it is a scene from a porn movie in virtual reality and his body will only show his trunk and genitals. His role is to put his eyes behind two GoPro cameras, hide his arms, move little and, above all, not pant. The scene is literally the dream of many – to let themselves be done – but not so much here, surrounded by cameras, operators and in deathly silence: “It’s the hardest job. I can’t move my hands. I barely see the girl. I can’t touch . Everything is head, “he says.

The actress, on the other hand, has another role: “Virtual reality is more tiring,”, says the actress. She speaks, executes and dominates. All action depends on what she does. It is almost a monologue.

The scene begins, in fact, without an actor. It is a supposed hairdresser and the actress moves her hands next to the cameras, as if she was washing a head that does not exist. Then she talks to the cameras herself: “Do you want a specific haircut? I have very good products. Not only women take care of their bodies. Men too.” After a while, the actor sits down with his hat. He has put the pants on just because they have to take them off.

The director of the scene points to the actress the phrases of her. She then calmly details her postures: “We started with a handjob, then a blowjob.” Her tone is the same as “please bring me some coffee.”

Virtual reality is immersion. The viewer puts on a pair of glasses and enters another world. He can look in various directions. In porn, when he looks down, he sees the trunk of a stretched man. Hence the silence and the debate about the hands: if the actor breathes hard or puts out his arms, he indicates another presence and the immersive experience is shipwrecked. When he looks up, he sees an actress moving above that log. She walks up to the camera and walks away from it. She also brings specific parts of her body closer. It is, indeed, quite real.

As happened with VHS, the internet, and lately with smartphones, once again technology benefits the world of the pornographic industry. On behalf of virtual reality (VR) porn, according to statistics from a popular website, thousands of reproductions, approximately half a million views per day, consolidate the new phenomenon of movies seen with virtual reality glasses.

5 years ago, the porn industry entered the business of showing films through VR glasses, which allow scenes to be viewed from all angles. Currently, the results speak for themselves, suggesting that the bet was a total success. Among the countries that consume the most virtual reality porn are the United States, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Taiwan.