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Pornhub Awards Show is in VR this week

Oasis. (Image courtesy Utherverse Digital.)

Pornhub Awards Show to bring Virtual Reality to the Masses

Combining live VR streaming and a massively multiuser VR virtual world will deliver two breakthroughs for the premier of the Pornhub Awards Show on September 6, 2018

Vancouver, B.C. – In the latest example of the power of porn to launch new technologies, adult megasite Pornhub’s first-ever awards show will be the world’s most technologically advanced and globally accessible show. Pornhub is throwing the entire weight of their network behind a show that is set to ignite the virtual reality revolution.

While VR has had a tough time gaining traction with consumers, this muscular push by Pornhub to further expand its role as the world leader in content delivery may finally change all that. The streaming clip giant will be  dedicating its front page to a multi-hour awards show that will encourage users to interact with the world’s top porn stars in virtual reality.

2018 Pornhub Awards. (Image courtesy Utherverse Digital.)

Not only will viewers be able to watch the show in real time from their choice of four different 360-degree positions (including one backstage location, creating a virtual back-stage pass), but anyone with a computer powered headset such as the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, will be able to actually attend the show in a massively multiuser social VR replica.

Brian Shuster

“This is the first ever event where hundreds of thousands of VR users can come together and interact with each other and with the porn stars in such a futuristic way,” said Brian Shuster, executive producer of the Pornhub Awards Show. “The platform, Oasis.game, is the product of more than 15 years of development and more than $50 million of investment. It is a system designed to usher in a new era of Virtual Reality, and this awards show is how we have chosen to launch this platform to the public.”

The Red Carpet VR broadcast starts at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time and the Pornhub Awards Show will begin at 7:30 p.m. Pacific TimeT on September 6 with around 500 of the world’s top porn stars in attendance in Los Angeles. The event will showcase multiple technological breakthroughs by broadcasting four simultaneous live 360-degree streams of the show, where until now, broadcasting even a single live 360-degree stream has proven virtually impossible. To accomplish this feat, the show has engaged the world’s premier VR studio, HoloFilm Productions.

“With more than 30 patents on technologies that we’ve developed for virtual reality, we are confident in our ability to deliver this ground-breaking video component to the tens of millions of viewers that are expected to watch the show,” said Anna Lee, President of HoloFilm Productions, LLC.

The hosting of a computer generated replica of the Belasco Theater that is capable of holding thousands of simultaneous VR avatars from around the world is an entirely different challenge. The Pornhub awards show has solved this problem by turning to Utherverse Digital, Inc., a world leading VR software development company. Utherverse built a platform for the event at https://www.oasis.game, which opened to the public earlier this month.

“The experience for VR users within the Oasis will be like something straight out of science fiction,” said Shuster. “It will look and feel like players are actually at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles, mingling with each other and with the award winning porn stars. This will finally deliver what virtual reality has been promising for so many years.”

For regularly updated information about the awards, categories and nominees, please visit www.pornhub.com/awards.

About Utherverse Digital

Utherverse Digital is the leading developer of the Virtual World Web (VWW), a software platform
which currently consists of more than 110,000 independently operated virtual reality business-worlds
and millions of personal virtual worlds including the Oasis(tm) that is available for download at
https://oasis.game. The company was formed in 2002 with the goal of supplementing the flat web with
a VR web that could bring a new kind of efficiency to businesses and users in entertainment, education,
commerce and charity.

About HoloFilm Productions

HoloFilm Productions is a leading-edge Virtual Reality entertainment production and post-
production company, specializing in creating the perfect VR Experience and live streamed VR events.
With a production facility in Vancouver, British Columbia, HoloFilm Productions is an all-in-one
solution for Virtual Reality production with the ability to produce a wide range of content that all
feature NoSick Technology. More information is available at http://www.holofilmproductions.com

About Pornhub

Founded in 2007, Pornhub is the leading free, ad-supported adult video streaming website, offering
viewers the opportunity to upload and share their own videos. With over 5 million videos and over 90
million visitors a day, Pornhub truly is the best adult site in the world. Pornhub has built the largest
dedicated membership base in the adult community, with over 10 million engaged and loyal members,
offering viewers a fun and sophisticated social experience directly in site, complete with messaging,
photos, achievement badges and much more.

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Will VR Porn Be A Success Or A Potential Failure?

In 2014, Ella Darling changed the world of adult film by taking virtual reality (VR) technology and putting it to work in an erotic setting – a VR pornographic movie.  This marked a sort of beginning for VR’s involvement in adult films. A few years down the road and VR porn is revolutionising the porn industry with the immersive, interactive experiences it can provide, but with all the hype surrounding the technology, has it lived up to expectations?

After researching the topic, I’ve come up with the only true answer I could find – “It depends on who you ask.”

My basic experiences with VR porn have been mainly through using my Samsung Gear VR (which works seamlessly with my Galaxy smartphone) and VR porn tube sites to stream free vids.  It should be known that I am by no means a VR porn expert.  I’ve watched perhaps ten movies, and only sampled the higher end VR headsets such as HTC Vive or Oculus Rift.  My knowledge is more theoretical and research based.  I did notice however that the experience is quite good and could easily become addictive.  One thing that my experience taught me is that I like VR porn more than I do regular 2D porn.  You find yourself alone, with a sexy porn star and they’re, you know, going about their business – you can’t help becoming immersed in the scene.

“VR is the biggest (porn) niche since MILF,” according to Ian Paul, Naughty America’s CIO.  “It’s a niche that’s on fire.  So, it’s a force to be reckoned with, and it can easily go from being the biggest niche to the mainstream, to the dominant force in the industry.”

Naughty America VR logoVR porn is already on its way to a potential industry take over, with PornHub receiving over 500,000 views daily of their 2600+ VR video library.  Those are incredible numbers and the wave doesn’t look like breaking any time soon.  The porn industry has also been known as a major driving force when it comes to adoption of new technology and it, along with the video game industry, is the biggest driver for VR.

VR porn has found support for headsets through third-party applications, and even though the catalogue of available videos is still dwarfed by regular pornography, it’s growing larger every day.

VR porn naysayers are also not difficult to find.  Talk to video game execs and they’ll tell you that gaming is the future of VR.  This type of attitude made Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus VR, feel inclined to take a pot shot at some of the major VR companies, bemoaning the fact that “they pretend that adult VR doesn’t exist.”  He also claimed that if he were to jump back into a major VR company, he would, “secretly fund adult VR content because pornography has been an important driver for every recent form of media.”

There are also plenty of industry insiders that claim augmented reality (AR) will be the future and render VR obsolete.  I myself am more of the opinion that there will always be space for both technologies and that their uses can overlap quite easily.

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An issue that seems to be holding the adoption of VR back is the lack of standardization within the industry.  VR headsets are all using differing technology – from varying displays to tracking techniques.  This makes software more difficult to develop and keeps production costs high.  From a pornographic perspective, peripherals such as the Kiiroo or Lush teledildonic sex toys cannot be released fast enough.  These bring the much-needed element of touch and haptic response into the equation, making the technology that much more appealing and useful.

Speaking with Mike Hartman of VRSmash about his vision for the future of VR, he was very positive. He said, “Imagine how quickly VR – not just porn specifically, but in general – would be adopted by the masses if touch was added to the visuals.  Couples in long-distance relationships could have a “physical” connection to each other no matter where they are.  Dating or friendship could become truly global and relationships as we know them could change forever.  Once this side of the technology catches up, there’s no telling how large the snowball can grow.”

For now, there are valid opinions on both sides of the fence and it remains to be seen if VR and VR porn will not only survive, but also prosper like many think it will.

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Like Taking Racy Selfies? Make Them Less NSFW With AR app Trickpics

As is the way of the world today, the rise of smartphones led to the prominence of the selfie, with everyone and their dog taking photos of themselves to share with the rest of the planet. While those generally found on social media tend to be fairly innocuous, everyone likes to turn the heat up on occasion. Whether that’s sending a racy selfie to a loved one or you’re just completely uninhibited online, there might be points where you want to cover those private parts. So the purveyors of online raunchiness PornHub has come up with an app to do just that.

Mobile augmented reality (AR) (in the loosest term) app Trickpics allows users to make their NSFW pics a little safer by putting animations over those areas people may want to cover. Stickers are categorised into three options – it shouldn’t be too hard to guess what those are – with a total of 15 to chose from.

As you might expect there’s a tongue-in-cheek humour to the sticker labels such as Mile Highs, Twin Peaks, Magnum, Trouser-Snake, Lockdown and Midnight Snack, all with their own short animation.

Checkout the video below for a more revealing look at the app, and if it tickles your fancy it’s available for free on iOS and Android.

VRFocus will continue its coverage of all things AR, reporting back with the latest news.