Insert Yourself into the Action with VR Porn

Maybe you've been watching porn for years now. Maybe you were even watching porn back when you had to rent a VHS tape to watch it - or even before then, where getting ahold of that VHS tape wasn't as simple as heading to an adult bookstore. Maybe you've only been enjoying porn since it became easily accessible via online sites.

Either way, VR porn that can be synced with interactive toys like The Handy, is one of the newest ways to experience adult content - and it's really changing things up. Let's get into it:

What is VR Porn?

So, what does "VR" stand for? If you don't hang around the tech community, you might not know that "VR" stands for Virtual Reality.

So, throwing it all together, "VR Porn" ends up being "Virtual Reality Porn".

Virtual Reality Porn is a porn delivery system that lets you really insert yourself into the action. Just like Virtual Reality games or movies, VR porn requires a headset. Once you slide on the headset, all of the action goes on around you - instead of just in front of you on a small box inside of your computer browser. Essentially, VR makes porn entirely immersive - and it feels like you, yourself, are sitting right in the middle of the erotic scene.

VR Porn started to hit the scene in the mid-2010's in various experimental phases. The user interface was still in its infancy, and while the VR capability was "there", it wasn't quite fluid.

That isn't the case with most of the VR porn you can find today. As VR technology has gotten more affordable, adult studios have tossed more and more money into their VR porn platforms. Nowadays, entire studios focus on VR porn offerings, and there are more VR porn websites than you can count. You can enjoy the high-quality, high-resolution videos that you know and love - but in virtual reality where you can interact with aspects of the experience just like you would in real life.

It really is the most immersive way to experience porn that we have today. Add in Interactive sex toys, and you have the recipe for powerful experiences that make you forget that you're alone in your living room.

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Why Has VR Porn Exploded?

As you can imagine, VR porn brings added realism to the world of porn. 2D porn can be hot - don't get me wrong - but there's a whole lot of missing interactivity compared to VR porn. That's exactly why VR porn has exploded: interactivity and the ability to insert yourself into the action.

Standard videos film whatever the camera crew decided was important. VR porn films everything around you - and at a similar aspect ratio to your vision. This means the viewer controls the action. If you want to stare at a model's chest - and ignore the oral sex going on below, that's totally up to you. If you'd rather check out his face - and ignore the pounding that he's getting, that's up to you too.

VR porn is immersive just like real life. When you focus on one aspect, you can tune out other aspects of the experience. This means you can pick-and-choose where your attention goes in a way that feels extremely immersive - and allows for a lot of rewatching value to VR porn that may not happen in standard, 2D porn.

A lot of VR porn happens to be in the POV porn market as well. This means you can, quite literally, insert yourself into the action. When the porn stars are filming the content, one person wears a VR camera on their head. This means that the entire film is filmed from that person's point of view - which becomes the viewer's POV when they watch the video later on.

If you've ever wished that YOU were the porn star in a film, you almost can be. That's exactly the type of immersion that VR porn offers.

It also helps that VR headsets remove your ability to see anything else - just like real life. If you're sitting in a living room in real life, you can't also scroll-through to the bathroom or living room; what you see is what you get.

That's exactly what VR headsets can replicate. They place you into the center of the action - with no real distractions. With the VR headset on, your world becomes the world filmed in the video. If you look up, it's still porn. If you look down, it's still porn. Everywhere you look, you're still in a room with the porn. (Though if you're watching VR porn and critiquing the ceiling fan it in, you might consider swapping to a new video!)

VR porn equipment necessities have also become more affordable as time goes on. While electronic headsets are still relatively expensive (but more affordable than they had been!), cardboard-made alternatives now proliferate the market and allow you to use your cell phone for a DIY solution for VR porn. The most immersive VR porn experience still requires the more expensive options, but you can piece together pseudo-VR porn with as little as $25.