Many tech leaders held back on getting behind VR technology, not because it wasn’t impressive but because they knew the truly world-changing tech was just around the corner. Apple is perhaps the perfect example. While Meta was pushing VR with its Quest headsets, Apple was toiling away at devices that could work more seamlessly with the existing world in what it calls Mixed Reality. Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality (
MR) should be familiar concepts to most readers. Simply put, it integrates virtual elements into the perceived real world of the user.
From speedometers overlaid onto windshields to virtual maps for wandering tourists, from a video game set in your own house to filling your bedroom with all kinds of sexy characters,
AR offers users a uniquely compelling opportunity to change their perception of the world around them. While some naysayers will argue that detachment from the real-world environment keeps the user in a fantasy land, it’s clearly a fantasyland humankind wants to make real. Humans have long tried to create alternate views of the world. What else could you consider a movie or a photograph but different interpretations and presentations of reality?
AR Erupts Online
Tech savvy users of X (formerly known as Twitter) and TikTok have been serving up tantalizing uses of AR in recent months. Many AR creations have been genuinely astonishing, earning ample retweets and even swaying some of the aforementioned naysayers to Team AR. Let’s take a look at some of the marvels being created for AR.
The AR Fashion of Piper Zy
Waiting in a Car with Meta Quest 3
VRPorn.com already hosts AR/MR porn that utilizes the passthrough feature of certain headsets to place a virtual sex partner right there in the room with you. Most often, these partners are
real pornstars captured in 3D, but they are also, on occasion
original CGI creations. As AR becomes more fluid and convincing to the human eye and sense of reality, and with Unreal Engine-inspired graphical improvements to virtual characters, we could soon be seeing porn that would be revolutionary not just for the adult industry but for sex itself.
