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Sex over distance using affordable consumer teledildonic robots

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Re: Sex over distance using affordable consumer teledildonic robots

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post #47

I wonder if the use of this technology by a paid webcam model on a client would constitute prostitution. Or what the social ramifications would be of having an omegle/chat-roulette style chat system where people could have sex with anonymous strangers over the internet at a moment's notice without any fear of pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease.

Well, "sex". This is probably nowhere near the real thing.

Re: Sex over distance using affordable consumer teledildonic robots

#53
Yet another pop culture reference — French-Belgian movie "Thomas est amoureux":

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262826/

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_est_amoureux (no English version of this article exist, only French, Russian and very short Italian)

Re: Sex over distance using affordable consumer teledildonic robots

#55
post #19

Some items from the video that were not mentioned in the article: One to many interactions, Record and replay experiences, Pre-recorded games/videos. Of course, none of the above should really be a surprise but they still caught me off-guard.

Possibilities really open up with the telemetry translation api -- realizing that the telemetry is digital, and only has to be encoded once to be read for any purpose for any supported device is huge. We expect to be very busy for a long time fleshing out all the applications we have in mind. One that we're working on is using a users webcam to monitor heart rate (similar to the xbox one + kinect) and use that inform…

Upvote for "fleshing out".

Very interesting ideas. I can only imagine how far this concept can be taken.

Re: Sex over distance using affordable consumer teledildonic robots

#56
post #47

I wonder if the use of this technology by a paid webcam model on a client would constitute prostitution. Or what the social ramifications would be of having an omegle/chat-roulette style chat system where people could have sex with anonymous strangers over the internet at a moment's notice without any fear of pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease.

Well, "sex". This is probably nowhere near the real thing.

But supposing it was, the ramifications would be interesting to explore. This is the stuff good sci-fi is made of.

Re: Sex over distance using affordable consumer teledildonic robots

#57
post #16

Now you can have sex without even touching another human being! Yeah, this is one activity I think I've going to stick to the old meatspace/wetware paradigm for, sorry guys. OTOH I'm sure it's a fun device to work on :)

Lots of people who have sexual partners in meatspace still use toys, quite a lot actually. There's no comparing a regular human phallus to a fucksaw, or a hitachi, or a sybian.

Re: Sex over distance using affordable consumer teledildonic robots

#58
post #16

Now you can have sex without even touching another human being! Yeah, this is one activity I think I've going to stick to the old meatspace/wetware paradigm for, sorry guys. OTOH I'm sure it's a fun device to work on :)

This is actually just one of the reasons why I'm not that worried about overpopulation on Earth.

Re: Sex over distance using affordable consumer teledildonic robots

#60
post #19

Some items from the video that were not mentioned in the article: One to many interactions, Record and replay experiences, Pre-recorded games/videos. Of course, none of the above should really be a surprise but they still caught me off-guard.

Possibilities really open up with the telemetry translation api -- realizing that the telemetry is digital, and only has to be encoded once to be read for any purpose for any supported device is huge. We expect to be very busy for a long time fleshing out all the applications we have in mind. One that we're working on is using a users webcam to monitor heart rate (similar to the xbox one + kinect) and use that inform…

This is the future. I hope this would be a platform where developers could use the API and create more sci fi stuffs. Also, where can i hack on this api?
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