How to Watch Porn in Virtual Reality

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A friend of mine used to say that the first question we ask when we’re introduced to a new piece of technology is, “How can I use this to have sex?” To that end, here’s how to use a Meta Quest 3, Quest 3S, Quest 2, Apple Vision Pro, PSVR, Vive, or other VR headset to have sex…or watch virtual porn, anyway.

(If you’re wondering what else you can do with your Quest 3 or 3S, here’s a guide to the must-have apps for both.)

How to watch VR Porn with a Meta Quest 3, Quest 3S, Quest 2 or other VR headset

It’s almost comically easy to have an “entry-level” VR porn experience in virtual reality with any headset that isn’t manufactured by Apple. (More on that below.)

Entry level porn VR porn viewing, step-by-step

• Lock the door.

• Put on your headset.

• Click on your web-browser-of-choice

• Navigate to a site that hosts VR porn. Free video megasites like Youporn have a VR section, or you can use Google to search something out. Clicking on a video should launch you into VR—but “should” is doing a lot of work. These are random files hosted on janky free porn sites, so don’t be surprised if you need to do a little trial-and-error to find one that works correctly.

That’s all you need to know to get a taste of the VR porn thing, but because of the massive file sizes of VR video, streaming is likely to be choppy, and free movies are usually not in the highest resolution—again, janky but free. For a better experience, you’re going to have to (gasp) pay for it.

Suggested headsets for VR porn-viewing:

• Meta Quest 3

• Meta Quest 3S

• Valve Index VR Full Kit

• Meta Quest 2

• HTC Vive Pro 2

How to watch VR porn with a Meta Quest 3 and 3S

The above instructions for streaming “regular” VR porn work on Meta Quest 3 and 3S headsets, but the “3 series” has front-facing pass-through camera arrays that add a new wrinkle to adult content: augmented reality.

Getting your pass-through-porn on can be fairly complicated, so here’s a separate post that goes into detail about how to get augmented reality porn to work on your Meta Quest 3 and 3S.

How to watch Porn with an Apple Vision Pro

Apple’s Vision Pro can stream, download, and play “normal” videos (both adult and “mainstream”) on gigantic virtual reality screens easily through its web browser, but immersive, 3D videos produced specifically for virtual or augmented reality will not work on your Apple Vision Pro’s browser.

Part of the issue is that WebXR, the programming interface for accessing augmented reality and virtual reality devices, is not automatically enabled in the Vision Pro’s browser. Not having WebXR enabled means no VR porn, but it also means you won’t have access to a slew of non-adult VR and AR content like web-based games, tours, productivity apps, etc.

Here’s how to turn WebXR on:

1. Open Settings.

2. Select Apps.

3. Select Safari.

4. Scroll to the bottom of the window and select Advanced.

5. Scroll to the bottom of the window and select Feature Flags.

6. Under Experimental XR Features, enable WebXR Device API and WebXR Hand Input Module.

7. Under WebKit Feature Flags, enable WebXR Augmented Reality Module and WebXR GamePads Module.

8. Exit Settings.

9. Open Safari, or if it’s already open, refresh a WebXR-enabled page to check it is working.

But even with WebXR enabled, you still can’t launch full VR porn videos on an Apple Vision Pro—yet. I spoke to Alex Novac, of VR Porn site SexLikeReal, and he said, “a lot has been done on our end to make things work with AVP. It’s a great tool for videos. Will be making a huge update soon.”

Advanced VR porn viewing

If you’ve given free sites a chance and found their VR offerings to be lacking, here’s how to go deeper in.

• Pick a VR website. Because VR porn is relatively new, more costly to produce, and has a smaller audience than “normal” adult videos, there aren’t an overwhelming number of sites dedicated to it. Most of the ones that are out there have sample videos to view, and some provide single-day access for very cheap. This list of the top VR porn sites is a good place to start.

• Did you lock the door?

• Open the browser, navigate to your newly chosen site and enter your credit card digits. Membership fees vary from site to site, but expect a range of $20 to $30 a month.

From here, you can stream full-length videos at very high quality. If you have decent home internet, streaming should work fine for most VR videos, but if your streaming is choppy, you can:

• Download and save video to your device— These videos can be over 10 gigs, so it might take some time.

• Play the video—Major VR headsets come with great video browsers, but if you want advanced features, download Skybox for 10 bucks. That way you can save video to your PC and stream from your computer easily.

• Get the right player: Some adult VR sites are configured to work best with specific browsers or video players, and you should be directed as to what to install.

The world of virtual reality enabled sex toys

If you’re looking for the most cutting-edge, technologically advanced virtual sex experience, you’re going to need some hardware, specifically, a (NSFW) virtual reality sex toy. These devices are designed to vibrate and oscillated in sync with videos, VR content, or to be controlled remotely over the web.

Among the best-known teledildonic sex toys is TheHandy. Funded through Kickstarter, this “high-end male stroker” syncs with everything from videos to VR content. As is usual with these devices, you hook up a Handy, then stream a video from a (again, NSFW) VR site like Sexlikereal, and the device will virtually “connect” with the movements you’re seeing in your headset, using scripts that are either human-made or AI-created. It’s definitely immersive and unique, if you can get past the tech-headache of syncing everything together. (Humans aren’t entirely obsolete yet, but we’re getting there.)

Is virtual reality porn any good?

Now that you know how to view porn in virtual reality, you have to ask yourself if you should. Virtual reality’s “you are there” immersion provides an experience that is different from traditional porn. But it’s not necessarily better. Like all things of this nature, it comes down to personal taste. I checked out some VR porn (for research purposes only, of course), and, without going into too much detail, here are the pros and cons:

Pros

It’s immersive: The illusion that you’re in a room with another person (or someone else is in your house) is so convincing, it’s almost scary at first. If that’s what you’re looking for from adult content, you’ll find it here.

It’s different: I’m an experiential kind of person, and VR pornography is definitely not like anything else.

Gender-bending: Most virtual reality porn is designed for heterosexual men, and shot from their point-of-view, but not all of it. There is VR porn shot from the POV of all genders, and that provides maybe the most unique experience of the genre: putting yourself in the (virtual) skin of someone else. Looking down at yourself and seeing a different male body, (one that doesn’t skip ab day) is strange enough, but looking down and seeing yourself with a differently gendered body is positively freaky in the best possible way. I can only assume this will lead to a new age of empathy and the end of sexism and homophobia. (A girl can dream.)

It’s cutting-edge: VR porn is a look into the possible future of human sexuality, especially if you’re adding in a literal sex machine like The Handy. It’s like communing deeply with the robots. You may be thinking, “but that sounds more creepy than sexy,” and you have a point.

Cons

It’s weird: In general, I like weird things, but VR porn can feel strange in a depersonalizing way. Maybe it’s the feigned intimacy from the performers, or maybe it’s the uncanny feeling of being in two places at once, but there’s something about it that ain’t natural, and it’s a hard feeling to shake.

It’s a hassle: Experiencing VR porn in full, with as high a resolution video as possible and with the addition of a virtual sex toy, takes a level of technical and personal dedication that might not be worth it to you. It reminds me of slot-car racing—sure, it’s a lot of fun, but is it fun enough to warrant dragging out the tracks, setting everything up, making sure the cars are tuned up, etc.?

Locked-in perspective: Putting the viewer right up in the action means the camera is locked to a first-person perspective to make it seem like what’s happening in the scene is happening to you. If you like that kind of thing, it’s gravy, but if you don’t … well, you gave it a shot.

The performance: The camera/you are very close to the performers in most VR porn videos. The illusion is fairly convincing, but actually selling that kind of intimacy requires acting talent. It’s a different kind of performing than film or stage, and, at the risk of being negative, many pornographic performers don’t have the chops to pull it off, so it can just feel weird—and not sexy-weird, either. Again, your mileage may vary.

Limited content: Because it is more expensive and more difficult to shoot VR video, and because there is a smaller audience, it seems like almost all VR porn is geared toward a mainstream porn audience. If you share the tastes of the majority of porn viewers, you’ll be happy. If you’re into something more esoteric, you might find it difficult or impossible to find exactly what you like.

So there are pluses and minuses. If you’re curious, try it once. Worst case, you’ll have a funny story. Best case, you’ll be the first one on the block to boldly go where only the most pioneering perverts dare to tread.

Original Source: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-watch-virtual-reality-porn?utm_medium=RSS

Original Source: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-watch-virtual-reality-porn?utm_medium=RSS