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It’s become a winning formula for Curtis, who decided to align with Gamma
Entertainment as his web partner in March 2024.
“It’s been a year now and it’s growing every month,” he says, adding that Lethal
Hardcore sells rights to its titles to various sites around the world.
“I’ve made good decisions in terms of partnerships and I do a lot of my own sales.
People come to me with offers and I decide whether I sell rights.
“And VR rights are going to become one of the next big things.”
Curtis would be the first to admit he didn’t know what he was doing when he first
entered the VR space in 2018.
“Back then it was GoPros, that was the thing. Nobody had these new cameras out
yet and you had to do it on the fly. There are cameras now built for VR,” Stoney says.
“It was a guy that I had never met who was the one who taught me how to shoot
VR the right way. He told me what I was doing wrong—sizing-wise, and scale-wise.
“He was a VR review person and he literally was a fan of mine.”
Curtis reveals that his secret-weapon VR expert reached out on Twitter with an
offer to help.
“He told me, ‘I’ve been a fan of your product since I was in college and I see you’re
in VR now. I can tell you what you’re doing wrong,’” Stoney continues.
Older and wiser, Curtis put his ego aside.
“I said, why not, let’s hear the guy out—and he gave me his number,” he adds.
After almost 20 hours worth of phone calls in which they discussed what works
and what doesn’t, Curtis made several adjustments to the way he was capturing his
VR, leading to the look he achieves now.
“This guy was immensely helpful and I probably might not even be in VR if it wasn’t
for him,” says Curtis, who shoots his VR in 8K using a Canon R5C.
“We’re set up for the future if 8K ever comes…I took the time out to listen to
somebody who wasn’t even any successful shooter, he never made his own videos.
He was a fan; he was a reviewer. But fans have knowledge…I was a fan before.
“I talked to him and I executed what he said and he was right—and I thank the guy
for that. You gotta be humble in this world, you can’t act like you know everything.”
Curtis tells AVN a big part of directing VR scenes entails teaching the new
generation of talent the do’s and don’t’s when they’ve had no prior experience in VR
performing.
“I feel as though I’m a pretty good teacher at this point,” Stoney says. “I feel more
like a coach.
“I tell them, ‘This is what guys are looking for. They’re looking for a storyline, a
passionate voice, a sensual girl that opens up to them, a human being. They want
somebody that’s going to give something of themselves so they can feel like they’re
actually getting to know this girl.’ That’s what makes great VR.”
Curtis says Lethal Hardcore often is among the top 5 best-selling studios on the
VR aggregator SexLikeReal, while his studio also performs well on VR Porn and
POVR.
“It’s still growing, we haven’t peaked by any means,” Curtis says.
Curtis—who underwent open heart surgery in March 2014 and then overcame
several complications in the months that followed—recounts how his first opportunity
in adult “just kind of fell into my lap.”
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