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Sorry to be a bit provocative in the title. No question, VR is a faszinating new kind of porn and SLR is doing a great job. However, when watching the videos from nearly all studios, the production is far beyond the potential of VR.

  1. There is no active camera person, that controls the best angle for a shoot or gives more diversity into the scene. A fixed (and in many cases poorly placed) camera is still standard.
  2. With current resolution and technical quality VR is working best for close ups. However, many videos are too close and there is no vital exchange between far and close camera positions (e.g. zooms)
  3. A shaky VR camera is awful, however slowly and senseful movements are ok.
  4. Technical quality: If you compare the qualitiy of studio productions to the quality of WEB cams, WEB cams have in many cases better quality than recorded studio productions..that is strange.
  5. In nearly all videos, the man is inactive. Why not shoot vids with interaction like in 2D porn?
  6. Look at some videos of SINSVR (only lesbian), STASYQVR (only soft), Reality Lovers or some of SLR Originals to see what I mean.

Looking forward for your opinion:-)


    There's an assumption in your question and statements that these things are equal, just done badly. It would be a lot cheaper to do 'normal' 2D porn actually 🙂

    Like the webcams, compairing single 1080p 50°-60° field of view with 2 x 2k+ cams 180° field of view.
    If you would stretch out that 1080p over a half-dome (180°) it would look horrible.

    arschlover There is no active camera person, that controls the best angle for a shoot or gives more diversity into the scene. A fixed (and in many cases poorly placed) camera is still standard.

    That's what most people want and expect in VR porn: true 3D POV porn. There is no "crazy shot" in 2D POV porn either. The fantasy is all about being the guy.
    And the point about the "poor camera placement" is also highly subjective. You can ask 10 different VR fans and everyone prefers a different placement.

    arschlover With current resolution and technical quality VR is working best for close ups. However, many videos are too close and there is no vital exchange between far and close camera positions (e.g. zooms)
    arschlover A shaky VR camera is awful, however slowly and senseful movements are ok.

    That's debatable. Moving rigs have been tried before and while many liked them others didn't. Some people easily get sick in VR, even with slow movement. This is a very subjective matter. Most VR studios do steady cams because it's just something everyone can enjoy. Personally, I'd love to see some more camera movement again, especially for the transitions between certain positions (I guess that's similar to what you call "exchange between far and close camera position"). Also from what I heard the last quality upgrade resulted in bigger cam setups again that are not so easily "moveable". That's pretty much only working with a camera that is attached to the male actor and that's pretty tricky for the actual cams, so it seems.

    arschlover Technical quality: If you compare the qualitiy of studio productions to the quality of WEB cams, WEB cams have in many cases better quality than recorded studio productions..that is strange.

    That is entirely not true, at least not for the big VR studios, like SLR, WVR, BVR, VRB etc. That's pretty much the best tech available for shooting VR vids right now. Please show me some examples of these superior VR web cams. Or do you mean normal web cams? That would be a pretty weird comparison and anyway, the picture of the VR scenes from the big studios is perfectly crisp in 2D. How good it looks in 3D/VR depends on both your headset and the editing process (which is some kind of science in itself). But it's not the camera tech itself. You cannot compare VR to 2D where you just shoot some stuff, cut a few things out and call it a day...

    arschlover In nearly all videos, the man is inactive. Why not shoot vids with interaction like in 2D porn?

    The VR community is really divided between people who hate an active male talent and people who enjoy an active male talent. Some studios shoot with some hand work of the male model, others with almost no hand work. Which other interaction do you want? The male talent could also talk, but I guarantee you that there would be stench resistance against that from huge parts of the fanbase. Reality is that a lot of people want to see as little of the male talent as possible because it makes it easier for them to immerse into the scene and to "become the guy". Others, like me and you, obviously, have less problems with that or don't even seek to fully be the guy, you know. I guess studios will experiment with different things as VR porn becomes even more popular in the future.

    In general, I don't agree with your assumption in the title at all. VR porn isn't produced cheap in general. Reality is that it's mostly produced to fulfil a certain fantasy and that's 3D POV porn that let you be the guy fucking the girl. Voyeur porn gives you of course much more freedom to shoot different things, because you're not limited to a specific camera angle. But so far demand for VR voyeur stuff seems to be pretty limited. So the answer to why there isn't more such stuff is that it's hard to earn money with it, at least so far. Personally, I'd love to see more variety in VR porn in the future as well and I hope SLR will deliver on that with more and more people getting into VR porn. But I cannot blame them (or other big studios) for mostly shooting 3D POV porn the way it is today because that's exactly what most VR porn viewers want to watch/experience right now.

              a month later

              Totally agree with the OP. The whole POV stuff gets boring very fast. It is interesting when you are new to VR but after a while it gets just exhausting. Most producers seem to forget that the average position for the user is sitting on a chair and when then the story is playing horizontally on a bed I get sick 😉 Same when the video is forcing me to look up or down or when the actress gets too close. That's very inconvenient and the stereo effect gets bad. I wish there would be more 3rd person or voyeur stuff but as it seems almost the whole industry is riding this train right now.

                8 months later

                I like your arguments, but in defense of VR porn, it wasn't filmed that long before it was perfected. Most of the time, the camera shakes to create a sense of reality, but it often interferes with the enjoyment of the process. But I agree with you about the interaction, maybe if there was more demand, such porn videos would have a bigger budget and be filmed better. But for now, it's expensive, and few people can afford to have a good VR at home. And we ordinary working people are left with https://www.collegeporn.net/xvideos/, and frankly, on TV, these videos look hotter than low-quality VR.

                  4 days later

                  fluxys we’ve got two gangbang scenes coming up this month that I’m very excited about! We’re filming from 1st person POV but since there are multiple dudes, we can get interesting 3rd person shot without loosing “presence.”
                  One of my favorite scenes is Back Alley Blowjobs & Butt Stuff but people hated the switch between 1st & 3rd so the new plan should remedy that.
                  We’ve got a DP anal creampie gangbang, and a watersport gangbang, very excite! 😁

                      arschlover In nearly all videos, the man is inactive. Why not shoot vids with interaction like in 2D porn?

                      U ever use the amaze vr app? It has short movies, got sum cool ones. But im watching these video and im just there thinking...man why isn't there any short porn movies like this.

                      Like i wanna see a brazzers type of 2dporn but in vr

                      How ever they use a 2d just use the vr cam.
                      But vr i think its better the cam further back getting full body sex positions, most non pov they have the cam to close up during sex positions, sure we can get a close up of penatration for few mins, just like 2d.
                      Also could throw in sum actual pov as well.

                      Sum say whats the point of that if not pov cuz its vr,
                      But i like it, i use to watch 2dporn and think man it be cool if i was in that room watching this.

                      My point is, the way they film a brazzer scene we can do that with a vr cam, further the cam during sex, short penatration close up, and have pov and non pov.

                      👍🥂

                        3 months later

                        We would be happy to level things up. Not sure there are many options around. Feel free to suggest

                        Nothing wrong with POV - thats how sex works for me at least, and POV comes closes to creating that feeling. Its like saying "I am bored with two boobs - I want three!"

                        One small area which seems underplayed is the "pre sex" bit where the girl is posing / dancing / moving / talking / interacting - There is an anticipation in that phase which is lost if you just jump right in.
                        Anyone who doesnt want this "begginning" phase can simply skip the video to get there, I dont see any drawback in adding 10 minutes to the start of a video to capture the "I cant wait to get my hands on that!" feeling

                        vrfanservice Off topic. But is there a way I can get in contact with you? I'm in the process of getting a studio up and running. Just a few things I'm curious on and would love to pick the brain of a studio.

                        To the OP. Everyone is going to have different taste when it comes to VR porn. Some people can't stomach camera movement. While others can. Even very settle movement can be very tricky to pull off. Some people don't want the male role interacting, some do. Some studios can afford $7,000 plus VR cameras. Many can't. Someone already explained the difference between a 180 camera and what the webcam models are using. There are so many things that factor into it. And considering it's still a very new tech, there is going to be learning curves.

                            saw a cool clip on there the other day...before the action actually started, they were talking about the making of VR vs regular porn and all the challenges. you can always see their rigs and cameras...evos on the head or overhead and multiple vuzes. those are all 400 dollar cameras.

                            vrfanservice Well one of the big issues I am concerned with is finding locations to shoot. I know there are "porn houses" in places like LA, Vegas and Miami. (not sure where you are located) But I have no idea how to find them. Airbnb is an option, if I could find an owner will to let me use their house. But seems like they could be a headache to deal with. So my question is where is the best place to find studios/shooting spaces. Peerspace.com has studio rentals. That's the only place I know where to check.

                            Granted I'm still probably 6 months out before I'm ready to shoot. But I'd like to get an idea on studio rentals and cost to help me figure out my budget. I had a few other questions. But my mind is drawing a blank.