VR Porn is perceived as sexual simulation

svanir

Why would I care how VR porn is perceived? Sex, whether virtual or simulated or real is personal and stays in my own home/room. I don't care how society at large views VR porn nor is it their business. The vid of some weirdo dudes thrusting in public with VR headsets on looks ridiculous and funny and holds no bearing and should hold no bearing on the subject of what sort of content a VR porn website should host or create. You could have just put a suggestion in the forums for "Hey guys I prefer non POV VR content" instead of setting up such a bad argument.

pkloverx

svanir "Why would I care how VR porn is perceived?"
Because that drives away potential new viewers of it, who are only presented with one option.

This reminds me of 360 videos, when VR videos first started the majority were 360 because of the simulation ideal, it HAD TO BE 360 "Because that's all VR is about"...

Anyways don't wanna get lost in that, you might not care, but the way outsiders perceive VR porn is keeping a lot of them away from it... And so it affects you with having less videos and options, that's all.

To give you an idea, there's currently over 7 million active VR users, and the Top video of the month on SLR has 51k views...
I do not believe one second that out of 7 million only 51k watch porn...
Considering around half of the population watches porn...
Lets say out of 7mil VR users, 2mil watched porn this week.
Out of 2mil, let's say 200k watched VR porn...

The other 1.8mil, watched regular porn.

My crazy assumption is that those 1.8mil, who watched regular porn... Well, they just want to watch porn. They don't want to pretend to have virtual sex , they just want to watch... And I'm not saying , if you watch POV porn you have to do that, I'm saying that's how it is perceived.
Those 1.8mil weekly VR owner porn watchers, know that VR Porn is a thing, but they aren't interested... Why, it's open for guesses, and this is my guess.

rerun119

pkloverx And now many studios are still stuck catering to the little big crowd that is into simulating intercourse, turning away people that are not into that, who just want to sit back and watch, as that's what porn is all about for billions of people on flatscreen.

You keep saying that because people watch 2d and that is a camera watching people have sex. That's what people want. 2d and VR are to completely different things. You can't look at your phone and have POV like in VR. It doesn't work period. So to say people don't watch POV in 2d means they don't like it is a crazy idea. They're different mediums.

pkloverx Those 1.8mil weekly VR owner porn watchers, know that VR Porn is a thing, but they aren't interested... Why, it's open for guesses, and this is my guess.

How about the idea that 1.8 mil weekly VR owners are not adults. Have you ever looked at the breakdown of the ages of VR headset owners?
Do you think new Quest owners are likely to be 50 or 15?
Just give up and say you like to watch people have sex and wish there was more videos that you liked.

vrpicasso

If lots of people wanted non-POV porn, the market would react to that. Views and likes are an easy metric and they suggest non-POV is a small niche. Sort the videos on SLR by all time popularity and look at where the non-POV scenes land. I have nothing against it, but to suggest that there's this huge silent crowd of people who align with your personal tastes is a stretch. There are many niches. I hate doggy, some demand it, some hate big / small boobs or tattoos or silicone etc and I think there's a temptation to think everyone else is crazy when their tastes don't align with your own. I'm certainly guilty of that.

Hopefully VR keeps growing and more diversity of genres, models and ideas can develop but I do believe the future is headed towards virtual sex in whatever form that takes - not just virtual voyeurism. Yet that will no doubt be a significant genre.

pkloverx

vrpicasso Numbers are important of course, but zoom out and see that there's millions of people who watch porn weekly but don't do so on VR... There's no vr porn video with one million views, the top video of all time from 3 yrs ago has 200k views.
The top video of this month from 3 weeks ago has 51k views.

So I'm mainly talking about that... A lot of people decide to watch porn on the flatscreen instead of VR, that's anyone guess of why, and mine is because they think all there is to VR porn is just POV, since it's what they are presented with the first time they might try to see it...
But I'll stop here cos I would just be repeating what I said in the thread.

7 years ago people thought 360 vr videos were the way to go because vr is all about reality simulation,and the majority of videos were 360...
The way you think of markets only makes sense in a bigger scale, where there is a lot of competition.
In such a small scale like VR Porn, where the top video of the month has 51k views, you kinda have to zoom out and see how many new viewers are coming, if the market is stagnating or growing. Main objective for all is more people coming to VR Porn, and the potential comers are presented with whatever is currently popular in our small pond.
If the pond is stagnating, the most popular is responsible and trying something new has the chance of bringing in freshenss.

vrpicasso

pkloverx You can't draw conclusions about VR porn based on the metrics for all porn in general, which is mostly free and 2d because of price, convenience and accessibility. People aren't watching pornhub on their phone because they're turned off by the prevalence of POV porn in VR. VR porn is a tiny market because VR is still a tiny market, and even accessing VR porn once you have a headset is a technical challenge, requires payment (for anything watchable) and that entails not just money but privacy / security issues. I mean, I had to have a fucking conversation with my bank to get my SLR payment accepted, and another porn payment caused my paypal account to be closed down. Not to mention the massive amounts of spam I've been subjected to, due to lax security protocols. My Czech VR email address was compromised, then one time Virtual Taboo accidentally published the email addresses of everyone in their comments section who hadn't picked a user name. Only a dedicated wanker would go through that shit!

And even once you've figured out where to go for VR porn and you've paid money, you then have to master the interface and how to correct scenes which usually have production flaws that need fixing. The barriers to entry for the consumer, vs free 2d porn are just too high for mainstream uptake. That's why VR porn is niche, not because of the camera point of view.

fuccaneer

pkloverx There's no vr porn video with one million views, the top video of all time from 3 yrs ago has 200k views.

ahem...

1,046,000 viws

HughMungus

Honestly at this point i wouldn't mind if SLR shot 1 purely non pov scene just so we can all laugh at it being the least liked scene in the past 2 years. Just don't use an actress that doesn't already have 10 scenes on here because it would be a waste.

petermc

HughMungus that would only prove though that VR is the circle jerk that he’s saying it is. That, by making only one thing, they’ve cultivated a small user base that only want one thing.

Don’t get me wrong, I have no interest in non-pov VR scenes either but his wider point stands. Porn fans in 2d like a wide range of content from very intimate GFE couples porn right up to super extreme kinks and fetishes. By limiting VR to almost exclusively vanilla GFE scenes, you are generally only going to attract that small subset of porn fans who like that content. Then the circle jerk begins where you only attract people who like this type of porn and you continue to only make that type of porn to keep them happy and the industry stagnates.

Now, I’m not saying we should be going to the other extreme either and having really extreme fetish porn. There’s a huge middle ground though like Interracial porn, gangbangs, anal, DP, BDSM/rough sex which have huge fan bases. Even just gonzo scenes where there’s no story, just porn performers having sweaty porn sex on camera. If you don’t cater to ordinary porn fans, you’ll never get them over to VR. You’d have to commit to it over a period of time too, it’s no good making one scene and then saying “it didn’t perform as well as we hoped”. It probably won’t be an instant hit as the people who like those scenes aren’t currently here in large numbers because you don’t cater to them. They’re not going to flock here and buy headsets for one scene. If they see that these scenes are being made regularly though and their favourite stars are on X promoting those scenes, they will eventually come across.

I’m not sure how we will get there though as it would need someone to take that risk and make scenes that are initially unpopular and might not sell that well. You’d probably need a Brazzers or Vixen to really commit to a VR studio and bring their subscribers over rather than just dipping their toes in. Adult time have committed but frustratingly are just making the same stuff as what is already here rather than mixing up their content like they would in 2d porn.

rerun119

petermc Do you think people watching porn only like one kind of kink style and that is it? If VR doesn't have their one kind of kink they are out?
Porn is the best study of supply and demand there is. If people want it then somebody is going to jump on it.
If you only like NON-POV then there is 50 pages of it. That isn't enough to keep someone here?
I think you either put on a VR headset and are blown away by it or I guess you aren't.
For some reason people seem to believe there are lots of people trying it and just not liking it. Why do people think this?
I think way more likely is that
1: Tons of the headsets are sold to minors
2: People aren't used to paying for porn so they either don't bring themselves to do it for lots of reasons, or they pirate it.
3: They might have roommates or a wife so it is harder to hide it. Way easier to take your phone to the bathroom for 10 minutes.
If you want more people to watch VR porn then everybody's time would be better spent on fixing these barriers

None have anything to do with just refusing because they don't make their specific kink.

pkloverx

rerun119 If you only like NON-POV then there is 50 pages of it. That isn't enough to keep someone here?

When someone first tries VR Porn they are presented with intimate GFE since it's the majority of content produced now.
That's the whole point. They aren't going to start searching for a needle in the haystack, there might be 50 pages of NonPov but that's out of a thousand.

And so, you get comments like these :
"I’ve watched VR porn before and all I can think is “That’s not my dick. This is weird”
"that whole disconnect of trying to think some other guy is you"
" First of all, it was 500+ videos and every.single.one.of.them is as generic as can be, with the samey-looking bimbos
doing their terrible, terrible "ACTING" and the fake moaning and dirty talking in the same three god-damn positions!"
"Proceeds to mimic some random facial expressions with the mouth open.
It looks fake, it sounds fake, it's a massive turn off. "

These are all comments of people that don't like GFE POV porn, but they see no other options! They think that's all there is in VR and rightuflly so, since that's what 90% of videos are like! You can't expect for people to go looking for what they don't even know is there!

petermc

rerun119 not if it’s missing one specific kink no but, if it’s missing anything remotely adventurous or exciting and you’re left with almost exclusively vanilla GFE porn with young teen looking girls, that will turn your average porn fan off it. These kinks (if I’d even call them that) I’m talking about aren’t little niche things either, they’re major parts of the industry. Every bit as much, if not more so, than the luvvy, duvvy intimate stuff that VR does ad nauseum.

SchnuppiLilac

pkloverx What's next? All caps?

rerun119

pkloverx I remember you copying these same comments somewhere else on here. Are these the 4 comments you have found over your years of research on this crusade?

pkloverx every.single.one.of.them is as generic as can be, with the samey-looking bimbos
doing their terrible, terrible "ACTING" and the fake moaning

This is a porn problem. It is worse because POV feels more real so it becomes more noticeable. But I guess this realness really brings this ONE person down. How is 2d less fake?

pkloverx intimate GFE since it's the majority of content produced now

NO, but I wish. Most VR porn plots are not GFE.

Again just say you like watching people having sex and you would like studios to make more of it.

ableman

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bbrawl

Really don't understand people getting upset over content existing or watching and commenting genres they aren't into. If you don't like it, don't watch it. Not everything has to be for you.

uioz

petermc How can a video ever be a simulation? It's like saying that watching the attractor screen on an arcade machine is the same as actually playing the game
Unfortunately, there's nothing to help people that are in the POVerty way of thinking because it's disordered illogical behavior.

petermc

uioz by definition, simulating something is not the same as actually doing it. No one is trying to say watching VR porn is the same as actually having sex with a real woman.

uioz

petermc in a simulation you can change what happens. fundamentally a video is not a simulation.

InfiniteFun

The map is not the territory...

SchnuppiLilac

InfiniteFun No ellipsis at the beginning of the post - does that mean we're entering a new chapter? 😉

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