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For those of you with an Oculus or an HTC Vive, you know how annoying wires can be. Wires are particularly troublesome when you are trying to get comfortable and settle down for a nice virtual reality porn wak-session. Well if the founder of Valve, Gabe Newell is correct, by 2018, those burdensome wires may be a thing of the past. Beyond leaving wires behind, Gabe recently also mentioned something even more titillating to the gaming press. At a press conference this week, he said room-scale virtual reality could become home-scale virtual reality. This, alongside the removal of wires, will have some major implications for the types of virtual reality porn experiences that developers can produce.
Gabe Newell Ceo of Valve. Image credit: Kotaku
The Wirenest that Entangles you in Virtual Reality
First things first, Gabe Newell, the founder and CEO of Valve should know what he is talking about. After all, Valve co-produced the HTV Vive headset with HTC. So, if we should trust anyone about the progress of virtual reality, it would be Mr. Gabe Half-life Valve Newell himself. Without providing any concrete details, he recently said that he expects wires to be a thing of the past soon enough, “My expectation is that [wireless] will be an add-on in 2017, and then it will be an integrated feature in 2018.” Gabe’s expectation already aligns well with what we are seeing in early 2017. Just recently, I wrote a piece on the KwikVR or TPCAST wireless adapters that are going on sale soon for the Oculus and the HTC Vive. It sounds like we will be getting official add-on support from HTC and Valve, if not also Oculus, this year as well. Yes, the lack of wires will aid your bate-sessions greatly but they will potentially do much more.
Room-Scale to Home-Scale
Room-scale setup of HTC Valve. Image credit: Valve
As I previously mentioned, the second half of Gabe’s “premonition” is much more exciting. If by 2018, all virtual reality systems are wireless, like Gabe thinks, then the limits of where they can go become much wider. Currently, the HTC Vive is a room-scale virtual reality system. This means it tracks you and your room to create an admixture virtual reality/real reality gaming experience that also provides higher fidelity motion tracking. Without wires, you would be free to move unfettered throughout your room because Valve’s Lighthouse system can track your movement. Room-scale could turn into home-scale tracking because, according to Lighthouse designer Alan Yates, the Lighthouse system was designed to be a scalable system. Working somewhat like cell phone towers, multiple lighthouse sensors can work in tandem to understand your movement and location. To track movement throughout your house, more Lighthouse sensors would be added to other rooms of your virtual reality sex den.
What does this mean for VR Porn?
Adult Carnival. Image credit: designtaxi.com
If the HTC Vive did indeed become wireless and Valve figured out a system where Lighthouse sensors could be added to each room, wild and crazy home-scale virtual reality experiences could be made. Virtual reality porn developers take note! With such a set-up, it would be easy to virtually embed a sexual funhouse or even a virtual whorehouse within your own home! Two player experiences would be easy to add as well. This would give couples the chance to experience virtual reality orgies or sexual funhouses together. 2018 can’t come soon enough!
interesting concept but implementing this in house would be a pain in ass.
The upcoming wireless solutions will give the developers the ability to think something beyond room-scale to VR experience that span all across your home… I think its just a matter of year and so where wireless will be cutting the existing cord attachments…
Great news! Yeah, we know that wireless has to be the future, but here is Vive confirming that it will be built in in 2018. So 2018 might be the time of true next generation Vive/Oculus. Though they have been off on dates before, and 2018 might be optimistic.