Genuine question: How does moving into flat/2d porn further the goal of the name "SexLikeReal"? No offense, but isn't that an expansion that will stretch resources thin? There are dozens and dozens of 2d porn creators or studios, SLR excels and succeeds precisely because it has created a platform that facilitates, enhances, and drives forward the world of VR porn. I personally find the idea that SLR would go into 2d stuff to be a distraction or detour, but I might be misunderstanding what is meant by "getting into flat" for diverse, multi angled experiences. What does that actually mean? 2D porn? Or something else?
As others are saying, I think part of what would make it less boring is things that are actually very, very easy to fix:
- Variety of outfits. Slutty outfits, stripper outfits, bikinis, more dedicated roleplay like sexy nurse outfits, police outfits, BDSM outfits, latex, heels, stripper heels, and so on.
- More variety, depth, or quality of scenarios. Girlfriend fantasies are fine, but trying things differently would enhance things QUITE a bit. This goes into the next topic:
- Scenery/Environments/Sets: Even for Passthrough, it's possible to include scenarios that involve fictionalized spaces. So for example, instead of the assumption that it's a bedroom, it could be fictionalized for Passthrough scenes as being at the office, a bathroom stall, a prison cell, a BDSM dungeon, a witch's tower, a vampire's castle, some inter-dimensional demon lair, in a public park, at the beach on the sand, laying on clouds with some sexy angel woman, and so on and so on and so on. Even if you don't create a physical set for these ideas, you could still achieve the fantasy of being there and allow users with passthrough to adjust in some way. Or you could create 3D/virtual sets if it's in the clouds for example and then add in sound effects. Which leads me to maybe point 4:
- Sounds effects and other effects immersion. You could create sound effects for different scenarios and in fact, can find free use sound effects or ambience to use edited into scenes. If you're in an alien space ship, then there are spaceship beeps and whirring, buzzing sounds in the background. If you're at the beach...the ocean sounds. If you're in a vampire's castle, howling wolves and wind blowing. If you're in a bathroom stall, the sound of a toilet flushing in the distance in the other bathroom across the hall, water flowing through pipes sounds, people walking in the hallway outside, and so on.
I think that while I understand the idea that positions are repetitive in POV VR, it's for good reason. Certain positions just ARE immersion breaking. Certain positions just aren't very easily possible in VR. That is, for now anyway until tech is created to allow the user to sort of virtualize themselves or create like full-body occlusion AND interactivity where the user can interact with the scene somehow. But at that point, we're talking something more of a truly virtual world. Otherwise, there is no scene in which another man's arms grabbing a woman's body for some position will not be obviously immersion breaking for VR Passthrough especially.
But I digress. There are STILL great ways to create new positions or variations on different positions or use props to create a variety of positions and so on. And ultimately, even in real life, there are only a certain amount of positions most people do during sex or even in 2D porn that isn't POV.
I think the idea of non POV for VR doesn't make a whole lot of sense except in a couple cases. I wouldn't mind seeing some of it in a way, but ultimately, VR porn makes the most sense as a way for the viewer to imagine themselves in the POV having sex with the person or persons in front of them. If we want different angles, I think something that I actually DID like in the past was having multi-screens. That would actually be VERY welcome for certain scenes like with that Winter Jade scene YEARS ago. Certain positions would be more sensible and achievable if you make use of digital virtualized screens in the vid that can show the woman sucking your dick from below while not necessarily being able to see her very well from your 1st person POV. Here's one idea that can bring variety to POV VR and one that I think would be amazing as some sort of a series or new VR studio:
VR milking tables but with multiple POVs. So, for example, the viewer's main POV would be laying on the milking table. (I uh...happen to have my own personal one at home but that's just me I guess). Then, the model doing the action would be underneath obviously and you would have another couple cameras capturing different angles of her underneath you so that you may not see her directly in front of you, but because of the other cameras, you could still know that it is happening. With an interactive toy like the Handy set up properly underneath you and a cheap ass camping cot with a hole cut where you wiener sticks through, you could thereby create VR milking table scenes that allow the viewer to imagine themselves in that scenario in 1st person POV while still providing an image of the actual action happening from the different camera angles. So this is one way in which we wouldn't need flat porn vids to achieve variety or difference and would very much bring diversity of content and surprise to the VR porn space again.
A big big part of why there isn't variety in VR Porn is precisely because of the reasons above. There should be improvements or variety in sound design, set design, props used to achieve different positions or perspectives, and more variety to porn scenarios rather than the usual "hey I'm hot and want to fuck you" that most studios do. Granted, I LOVE the "I'm hot and want to fuck you" scenes but even those work best as PSE porn star experiences.
