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FEATURE
“Our family is expanding,” said HoloFilm CEO Anna Lee. “We’ve got
BurningAngelVR that’s now part of the HoloFilm network, so we’re extremely happy
about that. Our method of filming has improved; we have new cameras, and we’re
allowing people to purchase the camera rigs that we use, so that’ s something brand
new that we’re doing for this show, and moving forward, you’ll be able to get one of
our HoloFilm rigs and start doing VR yourself.”
Selling/leasing the camera rigs to other adult producers is good for the company
in two ways: It puts more field-tested VR cameras into the field, yielding better end
results, plus it enables HoloFilm to attract more potential partners to their network.
“Our hope is to expand the HoloFilm family, yes,” Lee agreed, “but also, we’ve put
a lot of R&D into the rigs, and we really want to see VR grow and expand, and the
more people that are in this field, the more consumers there’ll be and that’s better for
everybody, so that’s our attitude toward that.”
HoloFilm’s first partner, Joanna Angel of alt-porn specialist BurningAngel
Productions, couldn’t be happier about the arrangement.
“I’m very excited,” Angel told AVN. “I think they’re the leaders of VR in porn. I
love working with them, they’re great people and I’ve really learned a lot. I’m very
excited to explore this new medium. I know it’s not even that new, but it’s new to
me, and it’s been a lot of fun. I’ve been shooting the same kind of stuff for a while;
it’s fun to try something else and put my own spin on it.
‘WE’VE BUILT THIS SPECIAL RIG
SO THE GIRLS CAN ACTUALLY
KISS IT, AND WHEN THE VIEWER’S WATCHING, IT FEELS LIKE THE GIRL IS KISSING
HIM TOUCHING HIS CHEEKS, TALKING DIRECTLY TO HIM.’
—NEIL ABRAMOVICH, VR BANGERS
AVN SHOW 2017 | By Mark Kernes
“I’m in a handful of scenes,” she added, “but also Nikki Hearts, Lily Lane, Leigh
Raven, Charlotte Sartre—they’re all at the HoloGirls booth; they have a little
BurningAngel section and they’re promoting it. Jaclyn Taylor is also in a handful of
scenes, and there are a bunch of Canadian performers I shot as well when I went up
to HoloGirls to get trained.”
But although the company now has several VR scenes in the can and ready for
distribution, Angel found that getting up to speed on shooting VR wasn’t easy.
“It’s stressful because you kind of have to set up your shot and cross your fingers
and hope you’re doing it right because you can’t look at it while you’re shooting and
stop and say ‘move your arm, move your leg,’” she admitted. “You could very easily
have an entire scene where someone’s arm is cut off because they moved one inch
in the wrong direction so it’s—honestly you don’t know until you start editing the
footage. We don’t do our own editing yet, but Small Hands is learning how to do it
and he understands it really well, but right now Holo’s people are doing the editing.
Maybe one thing at a time.”
Last year, HoloFilm’s main product on display was avatar-based VR scenes,
where adult performers like Tera Patrick were shot in VR against green screens and
rotoscoped into hardcore VR action. But one AEE exhibitor, Japan-based ImagineVR,
has put a new spin on animated VR, taking classic Japanese anime characters,
converting them into three-dimensional figures and putting them into sexual VR
scenes—but with a difference: Along with its anime VR content, the company
markets a torso sex doll that’s linked to the on-screen imagery.
“What we have here is the ultimate in VR and sex toys,” said company spokesman
Ryosuke Kawado. “Our doll is fitted with a motion sensor, so whenever the doll is
repositioned by the user, the action on the screen changes to mirror that position.
Right now, we have just four positions. Normal style, riding style, back style and side
style, but in future, we hope to make more positions. My partner even puts on his
Oculus headset and uses the VR to play with his actual wife.”
Also exhibiting at AEE for the first time was new VR producer Reality Lovers,
which has been putting VR scenes online since April of 2016.
GOGGLE EYES From top, Ela Darling giving a demo in the Cam4VR exhibit space; the VR Bangers POV Head Rig;
VR headsets from Terpon, on display in the ModelCentro booth; Gianna Michaels, Adria Rae, Brandi Love and Olivia Austin
representing CamSoda. CamSoda photo by Rick Garcia/@IndustryByRick; all others by JFK/FUBARWebmasters.com.
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