First of all, if anyone enjoys AR/ MR in general and Passthrough videos in particular please enjoy them. It's all about what is fun for you in the end regardless of others opinions.
As for me, I tried everything you can imagine with AR/ MR from games to Passthrough videos (normal and porn ones) multiple times. And with their current state, I've never impressed nor attracted to anything they provided. Comparing to VR, they are just a step back, at least for me.
As for AR/ MR games in particular. I found them boring, repetitive, restrictive, incohesive, not even one game attracted me or provided a better experience for me than VR games. Actually, I never felt immersed or connected when I played them.
As for Passthrough videos. Here some reasons why I don't have any interest in them:
1- Real sex still a thing. We still can have real sex in our rooms/ homes and in our times and with attractive girls, the experience is way more sensual, so to speak, even comparing to VR porn regular videos with sex toys.
2- Not convenient. You need to adjust your position/ angle every time with every new position/ angle you see in a Passthrough video, unlike VR Porn videos which can work with all positions/ angles perfectly without involving you to do so. And no, in real life, it's just you and your woman, there's nothing to struggle with like a headset on your face, a controller in your hand and a sex toy on your Mr. Jack.
3- Not variant. All the contents are mostly the same, the same laying down position with the same floating out of place dick in your room. But that's understandable if you read the previous reason. To make it more convenient, I mean.
4- Not cohesive. The girls just don't blend, interact, scaled, positioned or angled perfectly with your room/ environment, unless you manually move and adjust your position and/ or your objects in your environment to have an acceptable experience as possible.
5- Not believable. The girls in particular, you'll either find missing parts of them like legs, belly or hair or you'll notice all of these artifact issues surrounding them like grains and visual distortions, especially in the old PT Videos, but still present even in newer videos to this day.
And I want to mention, most of these previous reasons apply to the videos with CGI Backgrounds, especially, scaling.
These are what I recall from my experiences with them. Of course, these are personal opinions/ quality tastes at least in their current state as I mentioned previously. Some don't care, some do.
Whatever brings you fun and joy, go for it and enjoy it! It's our hobby after all.
As for VR Games and Porn. VR is a dream-like experience, it's all about "escapism" and to live a different experience that cannot be achieved in real life or it's very difficult, expensive and inconvenient to achieve. And when it comes to VR, "escapism" have a positive meaning unlike its negative meaning in real life, because in VR you make an extension of your real life, to have a rest from all that work and duties you do daily.
I mean, last thing I want after I finish my work and rest in my room/ home is to still present in my room/ home. I'll either go out with my friends or dive deep in another dimension in another place and time which ONLY VR can provide of course. And this how I variant my life and make it more enjoyable.
We experienced real life in all its ups and downs, what we really need is to have more beautiful dreams. The possibilities, the new and attractive variant contents are limitless.
VR is the only technology that gives me therapy, immersion and being somewhere else in a different time period despite I'm at my home at my actual time, setting in my couch or laying in my bed.
And yes, I know I'm not there, of course I'm not, and my brain is not tricked by that, but I have that feel of "Presence" that I'm actually there.
Best Regards.
