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FEATURE | INTERNEXT
FEATURE | By Dan Miller
During the third evening at the Internext Expo, attendees congregated at the Pajama Party, held in the Real World Suite at
the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, with amenities that included bowling, a pool table, a jacuzzi in the living room and non-stop
music. The sexy soiree was sponsored by AgeID, Eroiy.io, Paxum, TrafficJunky and Vice Industry Token. And on the last night
of the show (photos on bottom left), after the GFY Awards (see page 36), it was back to the MojoHost Hospitality Suite for
the after party. Photos by JFK/FUBARWebmasters.com
Lee, the president and director for HoloGirlsVR, said the community has been
in a bit of a holding pattern.
“Everyone is waiting for the next thing that’s going to catapult VR to the next
level,” Lee said. “We’ve learned a lot, figured out what works, how to shoot and
how to affect scaling. … Especially for people entering the space now you don’t
have to spend all the money we did in the beginning.”
Lee said the VR market is still wide open for niche specialists to “produce
something that hasn’t been seen before or hasn’t been done enough.”
Mikael “Vid Vicious” Levy said a “mixed reality experience” from combining
augmented reality with VR is on the horizon, while Abramovich said he and
everyone else are still perfecting the craft.
“I wouldn’t say there is the perfect camera for VR yet,” Abramovich said. “We
use new cameras every month because the technology is always changing. There
are always new developments. We can’t just stay here and press pause. We do
research and development every month.”
The importance of the VR headset cannot be understated, according to Lee.
“It’s important that the quality of the content for your first experience is a good
experience and I’m not talking about the production value of the content,” she
said.
Christoph Hermes, meanwhile, projected the worldwide VR market will be $50
billion in seven years and that includes mainstream gaming, which in large part is
driving technology.
Hermes passed around a headset with a sexy hardcore VR image on it, adding
that “by 2020, we will have one sense left that we cannot replicate—smell.”
The traffic panel included insights from Jimmy “Wizzo” Foreman (JuicyAds),
Mark Bauman (ReviveAds/TrafficHaus), Remi St. Maur (TrafficStars/
xHamsterLive), Hiyas Carr (Native.xxx) and Jim Austin (Stripchat); Eric Helsel
(Performance Click Ventures) moderated the session.
St. Maur said the “dating and webcams” verticals remain strong for media
buying, whereas male enhancement traffic is a non-starter these days.
“Media buying is a hard job,” St. Maur admitted.
Wizzo, who has been in adult for more than two decades, said that not-safe-
work video games are another vertical that is working, not to mention “anything
marijuana-related, e-cigarette or vaping.”
Helsel, who also works with Vice Token, a new utility coin, addressed
the “elephant in the room,” asking the panel where they stood with the
cryptocurrency phenomenon.
Wizzo indicated JuicyAds just closed the deal to begin doing payouts in
cryptocurrency.
“In the tech space a lot of people want to be paid in crypto,” Wizzo said. “I
think it’s going to be an exciting part of 2018.”
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