Technology in general has come a very long way. Those of us of a certain age will remember developments coming one after another. Cable television, computers, the internet, flat screen TVs, cell phones, smart phones, and so on. Today we make video calls like it was nothing. Years ago this was fodder for sci-fi books and even popular cartoons like The Jetsons.
Porn has always been at the forefront of technology. Urban legend says that the first person to have a camera used it to take nude pictures. We know for sure that a strip tease was filmed in 1896. This is really something when we consider the social climate of the time and that at the video camera itself was invented by Louis Le Prince in 1888.
Later porno was famously at the heart of the home video format war. Some suggest that VHS tapes beat out the superior Betamax format after the commercial porn industry adopted the former.
The boom in the internet too has been pushed along by porn. Or at least the search for it. We can point to various video formats or simply look at the now widespread consumption of adult video. Least anyone forget porn videos have now been accidentally displayed on giant monitors overlooking a major intersection in Indonesia, a mall in Thailand, an airport in Bangladesh, a train station in China, a bus stop in India, and more. We can only imagine how much is being watched in private!
Virtual reality
If we forget about sensorama all together we can point to the 1970’s and 1980’s as the beginning of virtual reality. Talk of a totally simulated three dimensional experience shook society years ago. Yet advancements lagged behind. The technology was apparently there. But it all required a big push.
Commercial virtual reality attractions came first. That was followed by home versions. Quality suffered as firms raced to get a working proof of concept out to consumers. It took a combination of gaming systems, smart phones and porn to really get things going.
Today you can watch free vr porn right from the comfort of your own home with a minimal investment. Hopefully this will make things easier for the people in charge of the screens overlooking freeways and transportation hubs around the world.
Modern VR porn
Admittedly it has taken a while for virtual reality to really get off the ground. Yet things now seem to be going in full swing. We are a high point of technology with artificial intelligence and virtual reality blossoming in front of our very eyes.
To learn more about VR I have spent a lot of time investigation the mainstream companies right along with the porn studios involved. I have been amazed by the incredible developments that have occurred over just the last few years.
The porn industry is definitely involved in the growth of VR. The best vr porn sites are putting out content faster than even the horniest of guys can watch. Especially considering all that is involved in the experience. After all strapping on a headset is more of an event than just catching a quick wank in a bathroom stall when nobody is looking.
It is fitting then that the shame and stigma over both porn and masturbation seems to be crumbling away at an unprecedented pace. These days there are whole communities of proud bators and gooners. Not to mention the wave of sex positivity that has helped legalize sex work in some areas and strengthen the fight against draconian anti-sex measures in others. Who could have imagined seeing either virtual reality porn or a “slut walk” in a major city even thirty years ago?
Technology, porn, virtual reality and humanity in general are all far from perfect. But at least we can track some measure of progress. As bleak as things sometimes seem we may forget to look around and notice all of the incredible changes that have already taken place.
