I haven't had the chance to watch the LA Productions scenes, but I'm planning on getting to them soon. I agree with all the discussion about overly scripted scenes. Less is more in VR porn. In VR porn: We need the bare minimum amount of pretext. We need cozy, colorful sets with perfect lighting. Most of all, we need authentic performances.
As Stormy Daniels testified in New York court recently, "The sex is real. The character names might be different, but the sex is very real. That's why it's pornography and not a B-movie." With VR, you have the chance for the performer(s) to be completely honest with their audience. In fact, I demand that the performers be honest with me.
Where I live, weed is legal. We have edibles that are cheaper (and easier on the stomach) than Advil. Watching VR porn while high is next level immersion. If a performance is fake, it stands out, no matter how beautiful the model. If I were directing, and you gave me a fake performance, you'd be sent home immediately. Fortunately, even from the bigger VR studios, you can find authentic performances if you look for them; sometimes, it's only 5 minutes of a one hour video where the magic happened.
So that's the job of the VR porn director. The director needs to set the scene in such a way that the performer is able to have authentic sex with the camera. The thing that's working against us is that mainstream porn has devolved into agents negotiating a performance by pricing out sex acts that we the audience are more familiar with as tags (or categories). Then, the director is obligated to check all those boxes, as is the performer. This does not produce authentic sex; and in VR the audience is less easily fooled.