• SLR

  • How do we make SLR cool?

Really curious what it takes to join SexLikeReal these days as we are looking to boost our marketing effort.

Making things simple and one click is the top priority - you have got on SLR, got horny watching previews, joined the site... Installed the app.

While we did a lot on tech side of things constantly improving web, app, introducing passthrough and haptics I'm still not happy with how slower content is evolving next to our tech effort. We really want to come up with new formats like Youtube and TikTok did that is greatly different from conventional media.

After all users come for content and everything else is just to serve it right. If filmmakers aren't innovating it we will try to push with most engaging "Shorts" parts, Going straight to segments of interest like missionary, anal, cowgirl, titsfucking part of a scene if you are browsing corresponding niches and ultimately shared Build Your Own Journey scripts which are coming soon.

It feels at times that SLR gets boring if no new cool arrivals. While we want our compliance in place I think the future is in new formats of VR porn. Making it super engaging.

We are looking for marketing people and producers to level it up to get super exciting content for you guys.

    doublevr I think the main aspect of VR is the immersion, which 2d just cannot copy. I think SLR and honestly ALL VR producers/studios currently leave a lot on the table with immersion. The worst VR scenes are the vanilla ones with nothing going for them. After that's solved, marketing needs to give a taste of that to the wider audience by selling them an experience. It's not just a porn video, it's now bringing you into a fantasy world.

        My 2 cents (and I've shared this before): taking Build-Your-Own-Journey to the next level with purpose-shot scenes would be huge. Less "I'm watching a video", more "I'm driving the experience by my choices", with the content of the scenes being directly tied into your "actions/decisions" as a participant.

        Dezyred is a good example, even if imho the execution was very poor. Execute it better, make it into a true VR gaming experience, and that would be pretty big.

          My biggest challenge is to make VR porn as cool as tubes porn. Tubes have much better retention than VR porn. While we are doing all the cool tech things it has to be content winning hearts and souls

            doublevr When you say "tubes porn" do you mean like pornhub?
            If so then to me they are completely different things. Pornhub is a 2d video on a monitor or phone and its free. I never liked it as much a paid site that had what I was looking for. If you make SLR free then your numbers will go up ten fold but it not better.

              justsomedude101 Or this is also. The point being immersion is the thing that only VR can do. Every one of us were blown away the first time we saw VR porn. You make the most immersive things you can and people won't be able to resist.

                I like the "shorts" idea that focuses on a specific position (missionary, cowgirl, etc.).
                Although, I'd prefer the "shorts" be at least 3 mins long so that we can fully enjoy the position (from beginning to end).

                This will save a ton of disk space for me because I usually skip to the parts that I think are interesting.

                I'd recommend releasing all 'shorts' from a scene together so that users don't have to wait for the parts they're interested in and start building their own journey asap.

                Build-Your-Own-Journey is a cool way to customize the experience for each user and it can be even more immersive if we can personalize the audio using AI (overdub and change lip movement to match the sentence I want the performer to say using software like this: ).

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                doublevr Tubes have much better retention than VR porn.

                Because they are free and full of frebies from companies forced to support them. SLR is a site for high-quality porn for middle-class (and lower middle-class) tech geeks. Tubes are for shift workers and delivery boys who run to the loo for a quick one during their breaks and have nothing but a cellphone. If VR tech decreases in price you'd have more viewers. If you put a little investment into Deo for Cardboard you could earn a little extra before the next generation of VR devices.

                  On another tangent, VR porn is like entering a new reality. The immersion is what hooks people in and will help SLR improve retention rates (just look at the gaming industry where simple indie games outperform AAA titles because they offer a more immersive and enjoyable gaming experience).

                  Here are some things that'll make VR porn even more immersive and as addictive as crack:

                  1. Evolving from 3 degrees of freedom (pitch, yaw, and roll) to 6 or 12 degrees of freedom. This is impossible to capture with a single VR camera setup, but should be doable with multiple VR cameras (placed in a dome formation).

                  2. Resolving camera scaling issues so that actors and sets appear like they're 1:1 scale. This should be easy to solve by matching scale using a reference object or using the performer as a reference.

                  3. Personalizing scene dialogue and audio to get the performer to say anything that the user wants. This can be achieved with AI models/software available today.

                  4. Capture intimate angles comparable to real sex (e.g. Alex Nash's Closeup Missionary and Leaning-in cowgirl shots).

                  5. Casting performers that people want to see and casting them in the right scene formats (the casting director you had in 2021 was awesome at this).

                    I want bts content
                    Also I've said this before but vrp needs more engaging videos beside sex, examples would be
                    Going on a date with a hottie or two, have them sitting, talking and eating and the viewer can sit and eat like they on the date too.

                    Also need exercise videos
                    My exercise bike idea that I requested which no one has done yet, have a hottie on a exercise bike have a vr camera behind her like I'm sitting on a exercise bike too and she instructing looking hot mean while I'm actually on my exercise bike going along working out with this hottie or a room full of hotties for like 20 to 30 minutes.

                    Or you could even ride on actual bikes on a bike ride with a few hotties.

                    Hell..take me on a walk with a hottie on a beach or something.

                    I already mentioned dancing, get up and dance with a hottie or room full. 😏🕺💃

                    There's this hottie on YouTube who goes to drive thrus and orders food and eats in her car, talks about the food and random shit, I thought to my self it be cool to drive along with her as the passenger. And of course she looking hot as Fuck

                    I mentioned before going to actual strip clubs, I could sit and enjoy the scenery drink a few beers watch the hotties strip. Could do male strip clubs too for the lady's or men 🤷‍♂️

                    Could do more bikini lingerie try ons, or clothes

                    I comment before that "cooking with Nathan" would be cool in vr.

                    I mean there's so much that can be done in vr and on a adult level, fuck...have a hottie sitting bedside reading me a bed time storie.

                    Show me sum hotties in a lingerie fight.
                    Nadia White is wrestling, vr footage of that would be cool sitting ring side.

                    These pornstars have other talents besides looking hot and having sex, show us that side.

                    Man ima have to dig up that comment I wrote high as fuck talking about vrp needs to be more then just sex and its needs it own identity or verse and I'd call it "The PornaVRse🌌

                    Oh and we need to bring back vr at the adult expos, like the avn awards and xbiz. Bts, interviews and the superstars.

                    Also I'd like to be fan on set during a porn shoot. Could be during a vr shoot or 2d, imagine being on set during a blacked.com or brazzers production.

                    There's a lot that can be done in vr but on a adult level. 👍

                    Lol I had this idea, have a room full of people sitting painting a naked person and the viewer could be the person they painting. It be a circle of people and you in the middle, would of worked good in 360 vr.

                      justsomedude101 Dezyred is a good example, even if imho the execution was very poor. Execute it better, make it into a true VR gaming experience, and that would be pretty big.

                      Dezyred has been such a consistent disappointment, especially because they're the only ones operating in that space at the moment.

                      They got it right with their first game and then ran as far as they could in the other direction. The whole game was two girls, one house, but you spent so much time interacting with the two of them it made the eventual sex a lot more rewarding. When I see a woman in a scene, I already know I'm going to see them fuck. I'm willing to wait for it. Spending time with them, doing things together, joking or teasing with them, making them feel like real characters, that's the good stuff that got ignored in their newer games.

                      That's always my answer whenever one of these "what can we do better" threads pops up; set-ups, stories, context, immersion. It feels like modern directors are terrified to spend more than 30 seconds of runtime on anything other than sex. I want different genres, directing styles, concepts. There's a lot of ground that 2D porn has been covering for years and years that still hasn't even been attempted in VR.

                          petergriff my biggest surprise is that we haven’t got any single movie that would be huge and would make people buy headset. It means the problem is in the format I guess. It just has to be different

                              One thing that I love about you guys is that you're not "SomethingSomethingVR." You're "SexLikeReal." Period. You're not constrained by VR, even if your customer base is full of people who came here to enjoy VR content.

                              To me, "Sex Like Real" should be about (1) touch, (2) immersion/control, and (3) intimacy/mind games. No. 1 is already covered by funscripts (3D, 2D), 2 is VR and expanded to BYOJ so that content does not feel "robotic" and scripted + passthrough, of course, and 3 is tough. Maybe it's time to delve into videogames? (be EXTREMELY cautious here) Or having models offer content and 1-1 time with customers á la OnlyFans? Or offering custom content? (Eve Sweet already sells custom VR vids on her OF), or maybe explore with some GPT models to create virtual waifus for real now? (https://www.sexlikereal.com/scenes/multicam-virtual-waifu-with-skylar-vox-14892).

                              IDK...

                                SLR can stand out from other western VR sites by doing/advertising these:

                                • SLRO: Longer scenes with story. SLRO is the only studio still routinely (albeit somewhat a decreased frequency) release 1h+ long scenes. Vanilla scenes = better to watch 2D porn. Good pairing of actresses which SLRO is doing quite well already.

                                • Related to above, storylines/series of scenes. Even better if subscribers can have a say in it. Like a proper version of Dezyred. SLRO's Getaway series, Blake's Magazine and Modern Relationship (and hopefully the Euro series by Nash later this year) are good starting points.

                                • Nail intimacy, try out different things. Body worship, spit exchange, face/ear licking, caressing, (post-orgasm) cuddling. These are intimate, immersive things that are surprisingly not seen in western VR porn frequently.

                                • Allow more user-suggested scenes. Not saying every scene should be that but at least give us subscribers a bit of say.

                                • The SLR website is good but please get rid of the "beta" warning whenever I try to access it. More timely presentation of previews and upcoming scenes (right now it is good, 5 on the queue with some much-anticipated Euro scenes later this month). There should be a large banner on the main SLRO website to show off the latest scenes (like in VRB).

                                  doublevr to me, that happens because there are a TON of content creators out there. From a thousand, if only one gets big and innovates, the platform will improve overall.

                                  I don't know if there's a barrier to entry, like equipment for VR, or creators not knowing that they can script their vids for sex toys, IDK, but there's got to be something you guys could do to drive fresh, amateur GIRLS (not the standard producer) to put content and interact with the community.

                                    doublevr That's because many scenes feel like they're just cranked out with no real heart or care. Need to put all our heart and soul into making a great experience and eventually it will be something you can't miss out on. Marketing can then give a taste or previews of that to really hook people in and have them take the plunge.

                                      doublevr If you have never seen a VR porn video before and have no idea what you're missing, how can you check it out nowadays before spending a substantial amount on proper equipment? The SLR get started guidance says: Buy a Q2! I would not have done that without even knowing what to expect, while I was okay with spending 30 bucks on some phone headset.