The sextech industry can’t wait to explore the technology’s erotic potential
The next, upgraded iteration of Apple’s mixed reality headset may arrive early next year or as late as the next year, but that hasn’t stopped explicit content creators from preparing for its arrival and the delights in store for their VR customer base.
Details are scant, though sites like 9to5 seem fairly certain the new Apple Vision Pro 2 will include the faster, more efficient M4 or M5 chip; an improved neck and head stress-reducing head strap; and, according to this Bloomberg article, a method to “increase the number of cores inside of the neural engine—a component for processing artificial intelligence tasks.”
The article further explains, “The neural engine in the current Vision Pro includes 16 cores, a measure of processing power. These capabilities are critical for a device that relies on AI for the live processing of imagery and applications in complex virtual environments.”
Lighter, more powerful, more comfortable—and cheaper?
Often heralded as a significant step towards realizing the immersive potential of augmented and mixed reality, the initial Apple Vision Pro nevertheless received mixed reviews, mostly due to its prohibitively steep price point.
However, starting at $3,499, excluding the cost of special prescription lenses, and nearly $3,899 for the one-terabyte model, wasn’t the only thing holding it back.
As another Bloomberg piece noted its awkward heaviness, few supported apps, display glare, and while in-store demonstrations generated interest, they ended up promising, “Consumers on an experience that doesn’t quite exist yet.”
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My own brief time spent with the headset backs this up, as I felt an odd combination of excitement at what it might offer in the future and frustration that I couldn’t take one home.
Unfortunately, while very little is known about what the Apple Vision Pro 2 might be like, there’s little—or more accurately, less than nothing—reported regarding whether it’ll ever be anything but an overpriced novelty.
Looking beyond the arousing horizon
Meager details aside, what the Apple Vision Pro 2 could be has at least one popular virtual reality adult platform all-a-twitter.
SexLikeReal, which hosts thirteen thousand different titles from nearly two hundred different studios, doesn’t shy away from fresh-out-of-the-box sex tech innovations. The website was quick to support interactive devices, such as those made by Kiiroo and Lovense.
This commitment to innovation helps explain why, in a company blog post, SexLikeReal predicts the Apple Vision Pro 2’s greater comfort and particularly its higher resolution displays will boost customer passthrough, claiming “scenes will feel even closer to performers being in your space. Switch between full VR and passthrough in seconds, without breaking immersion.”
Just like being there—but not yet?
Immersion, after all, is what augmented reality is all about: while VR drops the viewer into a completely digital space, AR — and its close cousin, Mixed Reality — projects a person, place, or thing over the wearer’s existing environment.
Or, to put it another way, by donning something like the current or upcoming Apple Vision Pro 2, you could see and eventually even interact via Bluetooth-enabled smart devices with the adult entertainer sitting on the edge of your bed.
However, the Apple Vision Pro showed that, although the sextech and adult entertainment industries may be eager for the technology, we may have several years before AR’s immersive power is fully realized.
Beginning with what Bloomberg and others anticipate: reduced weight and greater user comfort, a larger selection of apps and further support for existing sites and programs, and—more than anything—lowering hardware costs.
A challenging proposition, to be sure. Notably, regarding price, boosting next-gen AR gear isn’t the same as doing so with VR, where the latter requires maxed-out processing power to not only power and head-track a pair of high-definition displays but also seamlessly match content with whatever the wearer is already looking at.
But as with tech advances from artificial intelligence tech to 3D printing, easy, affordable, fully immersive, and completely interactive AR systems are inevitable—and however long they take to arrive, you know the adult entertainment industry will be ready, willing, and absolutely able to take full advantage of AR’s erotically-awesome possibilities.
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