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The porn industry is in a bind

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Re: The porn industry is in a bind

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Forget about the porn for a minute gang... this is, to me, the key insight in the story: VR and its cousin, “augmented reality,” are controlled by the big corporations. Facebook owns the Oculus Rift. Microsoft built the Hololens. Google does Google Glass. These will treat porn at least like Android treats porn—or maybe even like Glass treated porn when O’Connell unveiled his app. In other words, they won’t allow it t…

What about the Vive and OpenVR?

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr

Re: The porn industry is in a bind

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post #48

Forget about the porn for a minute gang... this is, to me, the key insight in the story: VR and its cousin, “augmented reality,” are controlled by the big corporations. Facebook owns the Oculus Rift. Microsoft built the Hololens. Google does Google Glass. These will treat porn at least like Android treats porn—or maybe even like Glass treated porn when O’Connell unveiled his app. In other words, they won’t allow it t…

I think the next big thing after VR will be sexbots, as in, per Philip K Dick, "your basic pleasure model." The pieces are almost all on the shelf and coming together. The hard part of course will be the software, with the motivation of making it an increasingly realistic companion. The Dark Matter series placed an interesting spin on it, where the "entertainment android", in addition to sex, is also specialized for…

Sounds like a great product, but of course, it'll likely offload most of the processing to "the cloud" so the manufacturer can spy on you and sell info on your sexual kinks to the highest bidder.

Not that I'm cynical about tech or anything...

Re: The porn industry is in a bind

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I follow @stoya and @Kayden_Kross on Twitter. :D They shatter the prejudices about porn stars with almost every tweet. It's a bit weird though. To follow these smart, funny girls and then be able to switch website and see them have hardcore sex.

Smart and funny girls can't have sex?

People generally don't in public.

Also, historically, people have associated working in the pornography industry as an act of desperation.

Re: The porn industry is in a bind

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I always felt it was weird that in the west there's this clear sharp line between porn and not, whereas in Japan things seemed a lot more blurred - it was normal for celebrities to become porn stars and vice versa, for game franchises that started as porn to get a cleaned-up Playstation instalment, for manga artists to release unofficial porn versions of their own work. I remember watching the movie Swordfish and being struck by how much the one incongruous topless scene felt like something you'd see in a Japanese work. So maybe we're seeing some kind of convergence?

Re: The porn industry is in a bind

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post #48

Forget about the porn for a minute gang... this is, to me, the key insight in the story: VR and its cousin, “augmented reality,” are controlled by the big corporations. Facebook owns the Oculus Rift. Microsoft built the Hololens. Google does Google Glass. These will treat porn at least like Android treats porn—or maybe even like Glass treated porn when O’Connell unveiled his app. In other words, they won’t allow it t…

I think the next big thing after VR will be sexbots, as in, per Philip K Dick, "your basic pleasure model." The pieces are almost all on the shelf and coming together. The hard part of course will be the software, with the motivation of making it an increasingly realistic companion. The Dark Matter series placed an interesting spin on it, where the "entertainment android", in addition to sex, is also specialized for…

I don't think so. Google Glass proved that tech, fashion and social cues are all deeply related. I think the same people who wore glass around in public and didn't get why people called them assholes would be the same people who buy sexbots and don't get why people call them perverts. A few dorks with calf-high white socks with birkenstocks would go nuts for them, and most of the rest of the world would look on with a mixture of disdain, amusement and repulsion.

Re: The porn industry is in a bind

#136

Forget about the porn for a minute gang... this is, to me, the key insight in the story: VR and its cousin, “augmented reality,” are controlled by the big corporations. Facebook owns the Oculus Rift. Microsoft built the Hololens. Google does Google Glass. These will treat porn at least like Android treats porn—or maybe even like Glass treated porn when O’Connell unveiled his app. In other words, they won’t allow it t…

So, tell me, how often did you install a new os on your smartphone, game console, VR device smart watch in the early 80s?

Interestingly this battle got started in the 80s around games consoles, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade (does the console maker have the right to total control of the games market for that console?)

Re: The porn industry is in a bind

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post #104

Forget about the porn for a minute gang... this is, to me, the key insight in the story: VR and its cousin, “augmented reality,” are controlled by the big corporations. Facebook owns the Oculus Rift. Microsoft built the Hololens. Google does Google Glass. These will treat porn at least like Android treats porn—or maybe even like Glass treated porn when O’Connell unveiled his app. In other words, they won’t allow it t…

But is losing control really that bad? Often we don't want control as much as we want to do more stuff. We don't have control about our food, but we are as fat as never before. We don't have control over what happens with our taxes, but still live for most people in the western world is stable, there are roads, public transport, doctors. I don't think people really want to keep control over their computers.

You have the choice to eat some read meal in a packet full of chemical preservatives and flavourings, or you have the choice to buy fresh ingredients and cook your own. I wish I had more control over where my taxes went. I would far rather they were helping the poor rather than bailing out banks.

Re: The porn industry is in a bind

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post #134

I always felt it was weird that in the west there's this clear sharp line between porn and not, whereas in Japan things seemed a lot more blurred - it was normal for celebrities to become porn stars and vice versa, for game franchises that started as porn to get a cleaned-up Playstation instalment, for manga artists to release unofficial porn versions of their own work. I remember watching the movie Swordfish and bei…

> whereas in Japan things seemed a lot more blurred

or pixelated

Re: The porn industry is in a bind

#139

Forget about the porn for a minute gang... this is, to me, the key insight in the story: VR and its cousin, “augmented reality,” are controlled by the big corporations. Facebook owns the Oculus Rift. Microsoft built the Hololens. Google does Google Glass. These will treat porn at least like Android treats porn—or maybe even like Glass treated porn when O’Connell unveiled his app. In other words, they won’t allow it t…

Right this moment I'm sitting in an office in the place that represents our hope, a capital of continued progress[0] - Shenzhen, China. Everything Facebook, Google and Microsoft designs gets built here (or nearby) anyway. China has a... quite healthy attitude towards copyright and trade secrets. That is, they don't give a flying fuck here. There was even a term for that, that eludes me at the moment, which described…

a great example of this is the 'hoverboard', the segway without a handle. These were designed and built by chinese factories and right now are being pumped out by a variety of factories with no clear owner or license holder and nobody cares, they are bought, re-branded and re-sold all over the world and due to the nature of the ownership issue retail price is dropping all the time.
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