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VR porn on the Rise

By Yesha Gangani

Posted on December 28, 2017

Pornhub reveals eye-opening facts about latest Sex Craze

The 21st century has successfully acclaimed pornography to become an economic and cultural engine in itself. Porn has been influencing our economy, our bedroom habits, as well as our technological world. It is easy to say that porn has become sex education for our generation.

And what more, it is so easily available, that too free of cost, 24/7 online. Even though porn may be one of the oldest restatements of the human culture, it is not exactly resistant to the rise of unrestricted and/or piratedmaterial.

In this multi-facetedrange, let’s specifically consider how the internet has changed the distribution of pornography.Ever wondered how the blue movies and Internet are affecting aesthetics, technology, performers, and us. First up, what actually is porn’s role in pushing the VR technology ahead?

The Rise of Virtual Reality Porn

Porn has always remained ahead when it comes to tech innovation. Do you remember what Betamax is? Not really? For your knowledge, before VHS ruled the video industry, Betamax and VHS were the competing formats used exclusively in the 1980s.

Betamax didn’t accept to use porn on its format. However, VHS had no such intentions. And similarly, Blu-ray took over the HD-DVD issue two decades later. Though internet was initially manufactured by the military, it was only adopted by a large mass of consumers because of the availability of porn.

Online payments such as credit card payments only came to light because the porn sites pushed them. Even something like the streaming technology was popularized by pornography. Now it is time for porn to thrust the development of virtual reality.The porn industry does so to make it accessible to the masses on a grand scale.

Pornography has reigned this persistent course of innovations because it has always been reinforced by the aspiration to connect with boundless yet shy audience. And that is what internet promised. The place offered apervasive manner to connect with millions of users at the privacy of their very own houses.The internet turned out to be the Holy Grail that flooded new revenue streams by reaching to broader audiences, eventually increasing the scalability of the item. However, to no one’s surprise, it’s confirmed to be a double-edged sword. It has started to lurk over the porn producers. The web has democratized the production of porn.

After that, anyone could film their moments and upload them to the web. Now, just as the record labels fought with piracy and the various other issues of monetizing the content streaming, everyone: porn producers and performers, were struggling to strive with an infinite online sea of free material, all thanks to inventive mates at home and their pointless brawl against online piracy.

Although performers have started to cam work as substitute revenue, porn studios are now turning further ahead to…the Virtual Reality.

“ Porn studios are now turning further ahead to… the Virtual Reality. The latest statistics present how the immersive demand for VR adult videosis. ”

 

⇒ Some Statistics that you should know

The latest statistics present how the immersive demand for VR adult videos is growing day by day.

The daily viewership of VR adult films have gone from 1,80,000 to now around 5,00,000 as per Pornhub’s Insights service. This service offers a stimulating infographic photograph of visitors’watching behaviors. One such outstanding statistics represent how the Christmas Day disturbingly sees the prime spike with 9,00,000 views.

VR porn is mainly on such a rise because of the growth in affordable headsets. Google’s Cardboard and Daydream devices, along with Samsung’s flagship Galaxy range have all given this industry hysteria back in 2016 when the Samsung’s S7 was shipped with its Gear headset. This may explain why so many people watched porn on Christmas Day. The new owners of this gifted VR headsets apparently couldn’t contain their excitement to see what the immersive tech is capable of doing.

Pornhub, the leading website, affirmed that it houses over 2,600 VR related videos, which is more than the limited 30 in June 2016. They also feature a range of the most popular searches from ‘VR’ to ‘VR POV’. As per Pornhub’s statistics, men are 160% more probable to watch VR videos compared to women. Additionally, Thailand is the country that has searched for most VR-related videos. The runner ups include Hong Kong and the Philippines as the second and third most interested states.

A bunch of statistics discharged by the top-most adult website,Pornhub, has unraveled a gigantic upsurge in the curiosity for VR pornography,ever since its germination in the industry in June 2016. The viewership of the 360 degree videos have risen by a massive 250%.

The adult production houses superbly gloat their own horns for being the chargers of make-or-break promising technologies. After Betamax, Blu-ray, and HD-DVD, now, the adult industry is playing a pivotal role in aiding the virtual reality in order to evade being a dud.

After all, pornography has always been publicized as one of the major exponents for the hardware stand with it being described by those in the industry as a “game changer.” Some dashing headsets such as the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive came with controllers that let users to ‘touch’ and manipulate objects. All this gave the porn industry the probability of making things more ‘real’ for the viewer.

As the technology begins to enhance itself, the hardware starts becoming more and more reachable for the masses. Consequently, the growth of VR porn is certainly going to be one of the fastest growing categories for the porn websites.