The Week In Sex Tech – SexLikeReal Claim Volumetric Porn, How Soon Until Immersive Sex, Replika Reduces Suicide Risk, Why So Many VR Porn Deaths?

SexLikeReal Claim To Have Filmed 6DOF Volumetric VR Videos

SexLikeReal have claimed to have filmed volumetric porn videos with 6DOF (meaning that, unlike conventional stereoscopic VR videos, you can move around in them). They have also stated that the results are ‘awesome’. They did recently announced that they had already started filming with the Apple Vision Pro, but it’s not clear if this is what they mean. The claim has been met with some scepticism at r/OculusNSFW, although this may in large part due to the animosity that has built up between Redditors there and the owner of SexLikeReal, who posts often very abrasive and insulting comments as /doublevr.

FutureOfSex.net Looks At How Soon Until Fully Immersive Sex

Writer M.Christian for FutureOfSex.net earlier last month pondered how soon we might have fully immersive virtual reality sex experiences. The article was inspired by an interview with mixed reality entertainment entrapeur Sam Hall that was published at imagantra, in which the prediction was made that fully immersive sex (complete with smells!) is only a decade away. Christian admirably chides Hall for also offering the opinion that this was a bad thing for humanity.

Another nugget I found in the FutureOfSex article was a reference to a Swansea University November 2022 published study on the effects of virtual reality porn, which encouragingly found “some increases in arousal and empathy in using VR pornography”.

M.Christian himself thinks that Hall’s predictions are actually too conservative.

As for how fast all these various pieces might come together to forge Hall’s sexual metaverse and why we might be able to enjoy it in far less time than he estimates, look no further than the meteoric rise of erotic chatbots.

Specifically, how ChatGPT, not neglecting the rise of other large language model systems such as Noma.ai, Replika, or Kindroid, launched less than a year ago.

Factoring in the ever-rising interest in and commercial success of sexuality-related technology—which, as Statista reports, boasts a “global market size of about 34 billion U.S. dollars in 2021“—it’s easy to see Hall’s prediction of a fully immersive, fully-sex tech integrated metaverse in ten years as far too conservative an estimate.

Stanford University Study Finds Replika Mitigates Suicide Risk

A Stanford University study looking at the effects of Replika on over 1,000 student participants, found that 3% of those surveyed said that their AI chat companion halted their sucidal ideation. The promising study also found that while the participants were lonelier than the typical student population (perhaps unsurprisingly), a large percentage felt that Replika did provide them with a sense of social support, whether as a friend or a therapist. Typically, this study did not receive the widespread headlines that other studies, or rather anecodotal claims, supposedly showing that AI girlfriends were leading all kinds of harmful mental health effects such as toxic masculinity and increased objectification of women.

Kagney Linn Karter Is Latest In A Long Line Of VR Porn Actresses Now Dead

The sad news of pornstar Kagney Linn Karter last month means that there have now been at least nine actresses who have starred in VR porn movies who have passed way too early. Is it the porn lifestyle? VR porn in particular? And what are the moral issues involved in banging an actress in VR who is no longer with us? I took a brief look at these questions in an article at ImmersivePorn.com.