Haptic Revolution: Where Tactile Feedback Will Take VR Porn

This year’s CES showcased a wide range of VR and AR devices and accessories, but for the porn lover out there, perhaps none were more exciting than those providing tactile sensations to VR and AR users. From gloves to vests, haptic pulses to restrictive force-feedback mechanisms, a handful of devices stood out and point to a bright future for immersive sexual entertainment.

Getting Feelings in the Future

Skinetic is a haptic feedback vest that translates VR stimuli to real physical sensations via 20 voice-coil motors. Not only does this device, which was honored with a Virtual & Augmented Reality Innovation Award at CES this year, provide tactile sensations to the user, but it is also capable of tracking real-time body movements, too. Along with a haptic vest from OWO which TechRadar’s Lance Ulanoff called “the most painful thing” he’s done at CES, Skinetic showed just how far haptic feedback has come in recent years. OWO, to its credit, was well showcased by its creators and demoed by many. Capable of simulating an impressive range of physical sensations – gun shots, stabbing, pin pricks, punches, bites, and scratches, among others – OWO made a very strong impression on those that tried it.

Vests and other clothing items equipped with haptic tools are impressive, but they don’t necessarily get us any closer to physical simulations of sex. Thankfully, there were products at CES that made no bones about focusing on hands.

Hands On

Haptic feedback gloves aren’t exactly a brand-new technology unknown to VR devotees. At CES 2023, however, a few new iterations of this long-heralded tech were on display and making strong impressions. Using shape memory alloys that provide tactile feedback, Diver-X’s Contact Glove won an innovation award and offered users a more compact take on hand-based haptics. Designed specifically for VR gamers, Contact Glove promised to provide control over metaverse communications and immersive games.

Another glove, Maestro from Contact CI pushed feedback to more aggressive levels with its force-feedback system designed to simulate restriction of movement when holding or using virtual objects. Holding and firing a gun gave the user the sense that they were actually holding an object, their fingers wrapping around the handle. And realistic recoil after pulling the trigger means VR games are likely to become more physically immersive in the near future.

It’s not hard to imagine such technology making its way to VR porn and allowing users to ‘feel’ a breast or buttock, the shape of which would be determined by the performer being fondled. From haptics to force-feedback, there’s plenty for the VR porn fan to be excited about as tactile sensation makes further inroads to VR ubiquity – and it’s not all limited to your hands.

More Powerful Porn

Enjoying VR porn properly requires using one’s hands – and not just to handle a controller. While this obstacle to full physical immersion remains and makes using the above glove-styled devices for porn more theoretical than practical, it will not remain an obstacle forever. Apply such technology to the already impressive field of sex toys intended for penile use, and you’ll start to get the picture. Haptic and (moderate) force feedback on a male masturbator? That sounds like a recipe for hands-free success.