• SLR

  • ❌ VRBangers, VRConk, Dezyred, VRBGay, VRBTrans are OUT

In terms of quality, the studio is one of my favorites. I doubt whether the spin-off from SLR is a good business decision. Interactive videos are essential for the best VR experience. But their attempt with dezyred is a bad joke. I checked in there and had a look. Honestly, what were they thinking with the price model? But that's another topic.

As long as VR Bangers does not have a good infrastructure to deliver their content interactively to their customers, they will only shoot themselves in the foot. I can't understand their decision, either the management doesn't intend to offer scenes with scripts or they underestimate the effort involved in developing and maintaining such a system themselves.

My first thought was like most here: Download as much as possible as quickly as possible. But then I remembered that I still have more than 1200 videos in my watchlist, of which more than 500 are interactive. Even if 10% of it is VR Bangers content, I don't know when to finish watching it all. And new content is constantly being added.

Long story short:
It's a real pity that VR Bangers is disappearing from the library, but don't waste your money and time. There is no plausible reason to subscribe on their own page or download their content as long as they on SLR. The SLR library is still larger than the time you have available.

    al3c1 that's a good thinking

    SLR is clearly revolutionizing the industry giving every producer not only significant revenue gains and brand promotion, but also unique features on top of content like:

    • interactive scripts
    • 8K streaming not possible with other apps
    • passthrough
    • being a part of SLR suggestions feed or a playlist
    • Build your own journey and Shorts that are coming soon.

    We create a huge added value for every content piece. They are likely using their content as a leverage as they can't compete on tech.

    You still can get their content on SLR with pay per video and pay per script if you buy till Dec 3. You keep these even as studio leaves.

        Hello, I got in touch with vrbangers. I think if many viewers write to Vrbanger, they might collapse due to viewer pressure and maybe come back. I don't think any studio can do without interactiveScript today.

        fuccaneer Oh, surprised to hear that. Honestly that makes it better since they'll be able to do something with them if it comes to it. There's a lot of media in the world that's just completely impossible to acquire legally because the companies that hold the rights can't be bothered to do anything with them, which is what I was most worried about--I'd feel bad pirating them and not supporting script creators I interact with on EroScripts.

          doublevr Since you are a statistic guy, what is the percentage of users who use scripts and passthrough? I would assume that this is in the single-digit percentage range in each case.

              someoneX you have to look into this within context.

              1. Scripts are super popular and it's around 10% of userbase who at least purchased it once and it's growing fast. Yet we never promoted a single device. It's only those who know what they are doing are going to get this. We will start featuring Handy here and there on the site then will actively promote it with SLR device as experience upgrade.

              2. Passthrough is super new stuff that requires a lot of custom work which we are trying to automate. By the end of next years it's going to be a significant number, especially if we succeed to passthrough all the videos out there.

                doublevr
                Bought a lifetime premium bundle a few months ago, pretty bummed that so many scripts are going to be removed from streaming. With the 3 script dl per month limit it's impossible to get them all now with such short notice. And buying them kind of defeats the reason why I bought the bundle in the first place 🙁

                    al3c1 is all that peripheral stuff really that popular? Genuine question as I honestly don’t know. I would’ve thought most people just have a wank the old fashioned way!


                    I am a member of VRB, I have been pretty much since I got my headset. They’ve had their ups and downs with quality but their content has always come out on SLR months after their own site anyway so maybe they think they are able to survive on their own and not revenue share on their content. Whether the lack of sex toy stuff makes or breaks them, I don’t know.

                    It should actually be celebrated if more sites can do that though as it would show a healthier VR porn industry if sites can work on their own and not all have to rely on SLR to prop them up. As consumers, it obviously means we end up having to pay more to join multiple sites but that’s how most of the rest of porn works and you get a much bigger variety of content as you’re not staying with the constraints of one site and their rules as to what is and is not compliant.

                    For example Xsinsvr are a site on here and started to release some watersports content a while back. They were pretty popular scenes but, after reviewing the scenes months down the line, SLR blocked them from their site (as they are perfectly entitled to do) as they say they didn’t meet their compliance standards. This means that Xsinsvr have now stopped making that content as they are not big enough to stand on their own and need to monetize their scenes through SLR to make the scenes viable. If they make a scene that can’t be shown here, they won’t make any money on it, in fact they’ll lose money on it. A studio then which would have offered something different (whether or not you like that type of content) had to stop doing that and fall in line with SLR.

                    On the one hand we have to be fair, without SLR, Xsinsvr probably wouldn’t even be able to operate in the first place. On the other hand though, having one mother site hosting everyone’s content means that you get less variety as sites all have to work within SLR’s rules.

                        PornCzar I have already wrote you a solution, but you don't wanna do it 🙁

                          I think the good thing was that slr is also going for interactive script which I think is the future, just good VR movies just aren't enough anymore and I think slr also has a lot of new innovations what others don't have.

                          I know that competition stimulates business, but it would be great if there was a big platform like there was with slr.

                          According to my reddit poll, >50% of people who pay for VR porn are subbed to SLR. I think we're going to see a lot of consolidation in the next few years (like VR Conk joining the VR Bangers group) and eventually SLR will have competition in the streaming space, but it will take a lot of investment. If Badoink, Wankz, NAVR, VRB etc are smart they will join forces but it seems most studio are so short sighted and only looking at their revenues in the immediate future. For all its flaws, SLR's ambitions in the tech and their evolving eco system is pushing the industry forwards. Other studios just want as much money from subscribers now with no thought of the future (eg creating VR Blow from parts of old scenes and selling it like it's fresh content, or creating shitty AI derived scripts and selling them as a DRM subscription service, or trying to sneak an extra subscription into new sign-ups). These companies need to look to the future, not insult their customers intelligence and bleed them dry without any genuine innovation.

                            vrpicasso How are 20% > 50%?

                            However, you have to be careful with the result, because SLR does not have the best reputation on Reddit and therefore some users will intentionally exclude their SLR membership from such a poll.

                                Btw downloads Fair use police did a great job this time 👍

                                Can't think of everyone downloading the shit out of SLR for the sake of keeping videos they won't even watch in their life skewing revenue distribution for the whole platform and creating peak bandwidth load.

                                Great we are bringing a piece of sanity into this crazy world 😇😊

                                Having sustainable innovative economy is in everyone's best interest.

                                  petermc al3c1 is all that peripheral stuff really that popular? Genuine question as I honestly don’t know. I would’ve thought most people just have a wank the old fashioned way!

                                  I think anyone who has ever tried interactive videos in combination with VR will certainly not want to give it back.

                                  SLR has also made this easier and easier in recent years. The devices for this are also becoming cheaper. Before that, the offer was really meager and the installation (video, script, stroker) was a challenge. Then there were constant crashes. Today it's just a matter of launching the "Haptics Connect" app on your smartphone (for Bluetooth devices) and let the party get started. Setting up for The Handy is even easier.

                                  SLR plays a large part in removing the technical hurdles. It's becoming easier to use, so I believe scripting support is becoming more relevant in choosing which studio the user subscribes to.

                                  petermc On the one hand we have to be fair, without SLR, Xsinsvr probably wouldn’t even be able to operate in the first place. On the other hand though, having one mother site hosting everyone’s content means that you get less variety as sites all have to work within SLR’s rules.

                                  I have to agree with you. Everything has its advantages and disadvantages.

                                        al3c1 Today it's just a matter of launching the "Haptics Connect" app on your smartphone (for Bluetooth devices) and let the party get started. Setting up for The Handy is even easier.

                                        You don't even need HC app with a proper device. SLR sex toy will be even easier. You take it outside of the box and enjoy working with the SLR app.

                                        Haptics are an awesome addition for VR and we are adding a lot more of that.

                                          doublevr Can't think of everyone downloading the shit out of SLR for the sake of keeping videos they won't even watch in their life skewing revenue distribution for the whole platform and creating peak bandwidth load.

                                          Great we are bringing a piece of sanity into this crazy world 😇😊

                                          This is exactly the point I wanted to express in my first post.

                                          But I felt the same way before. I also download everything. Just to have in case a studio leaves. At some point I only downloaded the videos that I had already seen and that I liked. Until I had to admit to myself that I would probably never look at them again. The selection of content that I haven't seen yet is too big.

                                          Just add up the costs you would have to spend on hard drives to store all these videos. And if you want it to be redundant, then you need a NAS. This has to run 24/7. Think of the electricity costs or rather the environment. If you don't have a redundant system and only use cheap consumer hard drives, data loss can occur. And so we're back where we stared.

                                          My advice: Be realistic with you usage behavior. Then most people here will see that it makes no sense to download all the stuff.

                                            someoneX 109 votes for SLR, from 215 participants. Don't be confused by the 20% figure, that means 20% of all subs are for SLR, but most people are subbed to multiple sites.