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“Personally, I’m really driven by scent; like the scent of my partner drives me
really insane, so that is something that I’m really hoping to incorporate into
Cam4VR soon. It’s kind of a joke, the idea of like Smell-O-Vision, but having
someone’s scent, it’s so erotic, so arousing.”
But while scent may be Cam4VR’s future, its present is nearly as exciting.
“We are rolling out a new camera pretty soon,” Darling advised. “It’s got a
wide capture space and it’s 3D, a 360 experience. It’s really beautiful, and if
you go into a private chat, pretty soon you’ll be able to be voice-to-voice with
the performer, so when you speak, she hears you and responds.”
Speaking of new cameras, another company that’s been getting its share
of mainstream exposure is VR Bangers, which currently offers about 80 4K,
360-degree VR scenes on its website, adding two each week. But their big
debut at AEE was their POV Head Rig—or as UK’s Daily Mail described it, a
“terrifying mannequin-head camera”—but in reality, simply a plastic human
head fitted with 4K cameras where its eyes would be, and microphones in its
“ears.”
“The rig was built especially for adult VR scenes because we noticed
that there is a much warmer and more intimate emotional attachment
between the performer and the recording device if the device itself is able
to be kissed, caressed, and whispered to in the same sort of ways that a real
person would sense those subtle communications,” said VR Bangers Chief
Technical Officer Boris Smirnoff.
“A lot of our viewers feel that VR is becoming a little bit boring,” added
company salesman Neil Abramovich, “so we decided to add more intimacy
to our VR videos. We’ve built this special rig so the girls can actually kiss
it, and when the viewer’s watching it, it feels like the girl is kissing him
touching his cheeks, talking directly to him. We try to use all the major
popular stars for our productions, and we’re also adding interactive toys like
Fleshlights to give our VR even more realism.”
Another AEE VR exhibitor that made mainstream news in January wasn’t
attention that it might have led to the other booths saying, ‘Hey, you know, where are the
people who want to see our booths? They’re all over there.’ We weren’t on the same floor.
That first day, there was some disagreement as to whether we could have the doors open
or closed. On a previous day, they’d said, ‘Oh, you know, keep them open; no problem.’
So we put our signs out, but then the next day they came in and said, ‘You can’t do that.
Shut the doors, pull the signs in’—and we were like, you know, how is anyone going
to know where we are without a sign at least? And so we got it squared away. We were
allowed to have one door open, so that was good, and put out a small sign.
“But a few of the journalists reported we were there,” Paul added, “giving the readers
a little bit more detail on where we were and how to find us, and once that got out there
and got retweeted and all that, then we had the droves of people coming in and the room
was pretty full. The lines were quite long for most of the day. They didn’t exceed the
room size, which was good, but there was no shortage of people and at a certain point, we
had to close down because the day was ending but even after we shut the doors, we had
people knocking—they were excited to try it.”
Naughty America used their booth at AEE mostly to make attendees aware of their
existing services.
“Everyone was very, very impressed with our content, and many people remarked that
it was surprisingly better than they thought it would be,” Paul said. “Some of the people
had tried some of the other VR content that was available for free or via Cardboard, but
when you try it on a nicer headset with better quality video, it’s a different experience.”
The company was also touting its recent partnership with toy maker Kiroo, a pioneer in
teledildonics.
“Kiroo has this device that lets couples—you know, the woman inserts it into her, the
guy puts his Fleshlight on—it lets them watch content together and they can do that in
the same room or they can do it remotely across the country,” Paul explained. “So it’s
teledildonics, but it may not be so tele and doesn’t have to be so remote, so you can
imagine a couple watching Naughty America content together and each of them can
have their own unique physical touches going on, depending on what’s happening to the
woman, what’s happening to the man, so that’s pretty exciting. And also there will be
scenarios for the solo man also. All of our VR videos is point-of-view, and when the girl
sits down on you, you’re really going to feel it, her sitting down on you, because of the
‘OUR METHOD OF
way the technology works with that tactile object feedback. So imagine the immersion
that VR gives you visually and audio, all in that tactile feedback and it’s truly going to
FILMING HAS IMPROVED; WE HAVE NEW
give you an immersive experience that hasn’t been experienced before by most users.”
As for what’s ahead, the company is working on augmented reality, or AR, but Paul
admitted, “We don’t have a solid plan; there’s different paths we can take to implement
CAMERAS, AND WE’RE ALLOWING PEOPLE
some sort of augmented reality product so we hope that this year we’ll have at least a
demonstration of the technology available next year.”
Also back for another year at AEE was HoloFilm Productions, promoting their main
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adult VR site HoloGirls.com—and the big news is that the company is branching out to
partner with other adult producers to create branded VR sites for them.
CAMERA RIGS THAT WE
USE, SO THAT’S SOMETHING BRAND NEW
THAT WE’RE DOING FOR
THIS SHOW.’
—ANNA LEE, HOLOFILM PRODUCTIONS
AVN SHOW 2017 | By Mark Kernes
so much being lauded for its technical innovations as much as because it
was the only adult content company that had been allowed to exhibit at
this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES): Naughty America. (Adult
companies pulled out of the CES in 1998 after convention officials became
openly hostile to the adult exhibitors and actresses, even going so far as to
put signs outside the restrooms reading, “Warning: Adult Performers Use
These Facilities.”)
“CES was amazing,” said Naughty America Chief Information Officer Ian
Paul. “We were just so excited to be the first adult entertainment company
in 18 years to be allowed to showcase. It was a great experience. The first
day was a little bit rocky as we figured out the lay of the land but after a few
hours, the crowds started coming in and the reception was great.”
But Paul soon found that CES’s feelings about adult hadn’t changed
much—even though, Back In The Day, CES attendees flocked to the adult
exhibits.
“We had to adhere to a number of different rules,” Paul advised. “One
of the rules was that we had to be in a room away from the main area.
Honestly, if we’d been on the show floor, we would have attracted so much
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AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW Kayla Kayden, Harley Jade, Julia Ann and Kylie Page were among the stars signing for adult
studio Naughty America, which showed off its VR content. Photo by Rick Garcia/@IndustryByRick