...for years i've been watching porn on my VR headset. i didn't have a computer or any screens at all in my bedroom, just VR, used it for flatscreen and was very happy. Sometimes i'd catch something on the PC in my man cave living room, but often that was just scoping something for later, actual porn enjoyment time is always in the bedroom. My haptics are set up there, and also it's a lot more comfortable!
So i've recently been getting back into unscripted machines, self bondage, etc, and as there's a lot of constant stuff you need to be doing vis a vee dials, ropes, positions, etc (it's a bit like sailing a ship made of fuck machines, but you're the ocean...) it's easier not to be headseted up. So i put a massive TV and a PC in the bedroom, for science, obviously, to see what difference it would make.
i have noted two main effects. Firstly my experiences were enhanced specifically because i no longer had to keep fucking about with a headset. i hadn't noticed what a niggling distraction it is till i lost it, but there are a lot random adjustments one is always making, micro tweaking it constantly so eyes are correctly placed for perfect vision, repositioning the screen when you reposition your head, peaking under to see stuff, adjusting fit, wtvr, there's actually quite a lot going on subconsciously that years of usage has been masking. Losing the headset felt liberating, and allowed me to concentrate on my self and my practices for the sessions, and as a result it was more immersive than with a headset.
Second, i much preferred the experience of viewing the material through the TV. It was brighter, clearer, and much easier to focus on than with a headset. And thanks to the fact i'd acquired this ridiculously huge 65 inch bastard of a TV and had it a few feet from the bed, though it wasn't quite the 'cinema screen five inches from your face' effect you can get with a headset, it was about as propotionaly large as one generally settles on for comfort. But it was the brightness that got me. So bright and clear, no matter where i moved my head, always bright and clear, perfectly in focus. And that contributed significantly to immersive qualia, everything just fades away except the TV, just me and the porn.... nice.
The advantages of using a headset over a TV are real, you can sit a massive screen in front of you, it moves with you, it's very immersive, it blocks everything else out, etc, but those are also use specific, and i'd argue that in most use cases, a big TV beats 2D on headset, no contest.
Which really surprised me! i LOVE it when an experiment returns a different result from that which you predicted, i really thought i'd be coming down on the side of headsets, but no, all your base belong to TV.
Just so you all don't think i've gone full heresy on this one, when i went back to some good old VR haptic sex, it was amazing. The VR seemed to pop out at me, the immersiveness was perfect because i was getting my POV sexperience, as opposed to flat where even POV there is still just non-POV cos playing as POV. Real POV is only experienced in stereo vision, imo. And i fucking love being in that moment, it's what VR excels at. Or watching some non-POV that appeals to me, i love the dancers, etc, so much fun to actually be in the room with them! xD
So yeah, they're two different beasts, that use your brain differently to give you immersion. i'll still be using the headset for 2D, it's so convenient when i'm using funscripts i'm not bothered about going MFP on the PC. Anyway, i tend to start in POV VR and move over to 2D anyway as the session progresses (so many great scripts out there for 2D) but for sheer viewing enjoyment of 2D, a proper TV wins hands down. And of course there's so much free streaming porn out there, you never need to look far to find something interesting to watch.
Win-win...