Upcoming VR Headsets (WIP Discussion).

sogman Everybody wants a headset like this. But a standalone 500-600 headset with better specs then Quest won't exist for the foreseeable future as Quest headsets are heavily subsidized by Meta and at a similar price. Also large FOV and passthrough are very technically challenging to mix.

As for guassian splatting and similar technologies: They are ways to make volumentric images/videos. There is a lot of promising research in this area lately and a lot of people see the potential for volumetric porn in this format. There are also already some companies that use this to deliver volumetric porn (walk around porn so to speak).

It's not really high quality yet but research in this area is moving very fast. So it will be exciting to see where we are in 1 to 2 years here. Decent quality (e.g. the equivalent of good 4K) volumetric porn will likely be a thing then. Even the current demo's are pretty cool. Not high enough quality for me but it makes you ache for when this gets good.

sogman Yeah, volumetrics are super. Best I've seen so far (in porn) is this: https://www.patreon.com/c/XXXDimension/home. Still just short and low res experiences but still found it cool to try out and imagine how crazy this will be in the future. Can't wait

fenderwq I see a bunch of content blurred out, is this all free if I make a free account or do you have to pay to see anything? Never been on that site before

sogman If you just install the Voluverse app that you will need for this you can watch two SFW Micky Muffin examples and some other stuff without signing up to anything. If I remember correctly, the free account lets you watch some XXXDim samples but most of the content you can only watch with the paid subscription that gives you full access.

SchnuppiLilac Are you paid or using free? If so, in its rough state, is it worth the cost looking back or would you wait to pay for more than the free stuff. Im cheap lol

sogman I have been a paying user for two or three months. If the free samples still make you curious for more, I think it's worth paying for one month since it's only like 5-10 bucks. One month will be enough to explore all the content.

The reason I finally decided to cancel was that content updates are rare. I think what you can expect at best is like one new 'scene' per week with a duration of a few minutes.

Image quality-wise, I thought it was quite okay considering the early state and limited resources behind it. What bugged me more was the app which can be a pain to handle, but it's working. Another thing I noticed was that performers never seem to look you in the eyes. Would be so much better if they did.

An unsolved problem of this tech which also occurred in what Naughty America was doing is open mouths. It seems to be a problem to properly scan body cavities and faces with open mouths look a bit weird.

What's definitely a great experience is to get an idea of how it would be to walk into a scene and become part of it. If they had a huge content library, I would have definitely stayed for longer.

sogman definitely very rough. But you know. Cool to see an example at least. But yeah, not good enough imo. Also, it's limited by quest processing power.