PornHub's New VR Channel Gets (Even More) Up Close And Personal

In any industry, keeping well abreast of new tech is pivotal to staying on top of tomorrow's markets, and one new collaboration between futuristic medium and media hub aims to help make digital pornography as stimulating as the real thing in the coming years--virtually so, that is.

As of yesterday, virtual-reality film company BadoinkVR is offering free versions of its sexy simulations in partnership with Pornhub, one of the adult entertainment industry's foremost hot-spots for finding both free and paid (but mostly free) content. The new channel features videos specially filmed for 3D viewing with an Oculus Rift, cardboard-a la- Google , or other VR headset, and will reportedly "have lots of full 360-degree content, so you really feel like you’re in some San Bernardino McMansion having sex with a stranger," Gizmodo notes. Pornhub Vice President Corey Price explained,

At Pornhub it is our duty to provide our global audience with the latest in cutting edge technology ... Now, our users are not only able to view our content, but be protagonists in the experience and interact with their favorite porn stars [...and] users’ wildest fantasies will come alive as they slip into a world of heightened titillation.

At present, the collection of films is strongly geared toward a broad, heterosexual male audience, including a certain consistent one-sided-ness to conversation and visible activity (i.e. male performers should be barely seen and definitely not heard) that is preferred by most viewers, according to BaDoinkVR's content manager Dinorah Hernandez. She told The Guardian, “People are requesting less sexual positions and more eye contact and dirty talk and being close to the camera.”

To promote the new extra-immersive content, Pornhub is giving away 10,000 Google Cardboard-style headsets to new registrants. Videos can be perused via an Oculus Rift app and, rather more traditionally, by browser, iOS, and Android, too, though such users may find blurrier views and "the female actress [looking] like a giant," Gizmodo says. If VR-porn-makers keep plugging away at their craft and the folks behind Frixion and other teledildonics teams can get their wires uncrossed, however, the near future of digitally enhanced 'alone time' may be, as Price says, "mesmeric" indeed.

[h/t Gizmodo]