AR Porn is coming!
[Quoting from the article, link below…]
Andreas Hronopoulos wants to beam strippers into people’s living rooms — and after a few years of tinkering, he thinks he’s finally found the tech to make his x-rated version of the Star Trek holodeck work.
Then, in October, Meta debuted its Quest Pro VR headset. The $1,500 headset comes with the ability to combine holograms and other virtual elements with a video view of the real world, thanks to a set of cameras strategically placed on the outside of the device—an implementation of AR that’s also known as mixed reality. Hronopoulos bought a Quest Pro as soon as it came out, tried it with his company’s 3D content, and had a bit of a lightbulb moment.
“Oh wow, that’s the product,” he remembers himself thinking. “Augmented reality is here.”
Compared to VR, adult AR is still in its early days. Naughty America recently relaunched its AR site Real Girls Now (adult content, not safe for work), which features short clips of adult performers dancing around stripper poles and striking other suggestive poses. Hronopoulos has so far recorded a total of around 50 minutes of footage in a specialized holographic capture studio, with dozens of cameras positioned around a performer to film her from every angle. “It’s a very complicated process,” he says.
The process also comes with built-in limitations. One of them is that even the best camera arrays can’t capture anything hidden behind another object or person, a problem that’s known as occlusion. That’s why Real Girls Now generally features single performers who don’t get too close to each other.
AR offers a chance to take a viewer’s agency to another level. Not only can viewers beam a model into the familiar surroundings of their living rooms (or, let’s face it, bedrooms), they can also walk around them, choose their vantage point, and ultimately become more active participants in their own fantasies.
In other words, as Hronopoulos says, “It’s going from watching to experiencing.”
The future of porn is in your living room — Fast Company
After seeing commercial success with VR videos, the adult industry is setting its sights on augmented reality.
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