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Virtual reality is an amazing visual experience, to say the least. That said, developers have focused so heavily on visuals that most virtual reality experiences don’t include things like touch and smell. For virtual reality porn enthusiasts, a sense of virtual touch could make a huge difference in the enjoyability of any virtual reality experience. Cornell University Organic Robotics Lab is coming to the rescue. They have invented a rubber air flow system that will be perfect for creating haptic virtual boners and probably virtual poon as well.
Image credit: Organic Robotics Lab
The Organic Robotics Lab’s system uses a variety of weird materials and air pulses in a system that is unlike any other haptic system that I have seen used in the field of virtual reality. They designed their system to work with virtual reality video games but I am sure VR porn was included in the design goals at some point or another – at least on a subconscious level.
As I previously mentioned, the Organic Robotics Lab’s system uses a weird combination of rubber and air tubes called pneumatic tubes. These tubes can be controlled to fire bursts of air into rubber pockets in a controller add-on for the HTC Vive (shown in the pictures). As you can see, in the pictures, this makes the Vive controller appear as though it is alive. The rubber itself is a special kind of rubber called Omnipulse. This rubber was designed to be a synthetic skin that could be electronically controlled.
As weird as it looks, supposedly, it can do a whole heck of a lot when programmed correctly. It can mimic the feel of shooting a gun or grabbing a hammer. By modulating the flow of air into the air pockets in the rubber, different sensations can be transmitted to the user. That said, this device does not provide the sensation of holding a gun, cold hard steel, sweaty hands, anticipation…
Image credit: Organic Robotics Lab
Instead, this system provides the feedback of firing the gun. So when the virtual gun goes off, the air tubes fire into specific chambers where the front of your palm would be. This gives the sensation that the controller is pressing into the back of your palm in a way that is similar to the sensation of a gun kicking back into the palm of your hand.
At this early stage, the Organic Robotics Lab’s system still needs quite a bit of development before it can find its way into consumer’s hands. When it hits the market, it could be quite cheap. This is because the system uses rubber skin, tubes, and air pockets, making it relatively inexpensive to manufacture. It also looks like it was fairly easy to attach to the HTC Vive controller. This means that someday we may see such a system implemented into a bigger manufacturer’s controller system. Otherwise, it could just be released as an add-on.
Virtual Reality Porn Applications
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Can you guess what I think this will be used for in the field of virtual reality porn? Come on! The first time I saw this, I thought it would be perfect for adding extra sensations to virtual boners. It would be so easy to slip one of these suckers over a dildo and you would have a haptic virtual reality wang.
This haptic virtual wang could be used as virtual reality sex toy by either sex because it could provide super intense haptic vibrations. Imagine a virtual boner with the haptic kick of a handgun? My girlfriend would love it. Signing off now because I am writing to the Organic Robotics Lab to see if they will allow me to borrow such a unit for virtual reality sex lab…
someday this is gonna help long distance relationships for sure and I hope I’d never need this.
nice! tech people taking few steps at a time!