Varjo’s Green New Visuals Point to XR Porn Success

Long before George Lucas brought chroma-key technology to public consciousness with the release of the Star Wars prequel trilogy (staring with 1999’s The Phantom Menace), green and blue screens were being used to create moving composite images for news broadcasts, weather forecasts, music videos, and video games. Now a chroma-key breakthrough is advancing the VR and XR industries.

Image: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)

Much more than just a go-to technique of sci-fi directors and over-eager film students everywhere, chroma-key processes allow an increasingly fluid blend of the real and the unreal. Now Varjo, the Finnish creator of high-end VR hardware like the acclaimed VR-2 and VR-2 Pro, has unveiled details about its XR-1 Developer Edition Xtended Reality device and, crucially, its chroma-key visual effects system. Allowing for transitions between real and virtual environments and elements far more believable and immersive than currently available optical pass-through options, Varjo believes video pass-through and chroma-key tech to be vital to cementing XR as a mainstream technology.

To See Through or Not to See Through

Image: Varjo XR-1’s video pass-through XR on display.

Naturally, this chroma-key business is good news for porn fans, especially those struggling with a completely immersive virtual encounter. Face it, many of us need some tangible, identifiable connection to the real world to feel stable and confident in our virtual adventures. Varjo’s green-screen approach, when it filters out into VR and XR hardware development world at large, will finally enable believable blending of, say, your own apartment and the digitally recreated pornstar you just invited to kick off her heels and relax on your sofa. Current adult XR and MR projects have made substantial progress in bringing us virtual sexual bliss but flail when it comes to such a convincing real-virtual amalgamation. No longer reliant on optical pass-through tech to render opaque images, Varjo’s developments will see XR-1 users walking through virtual landscapes for a variety of purposes, prurient and otherwise, seeing them as real, tangible objects however virtual they may be.

Image: Varjo’s XR-1

Green Screen Porn

You strap on your XR headset, load up a program, and are faced with a dark red door, a brass knob, and the murmur of revelers inside. Opening your bedroom door (in reality), a sex club’s main entrance (virtually) opens before you, letting you gaze around at copulating couples and solo women waiting for your attention. It’s an orgy in your own house! Be seduced by a woman taking a hike on a summer’s day or find your fantasy wife sitting on your very own sofa, even the most basic options could be damn near perfected.

Image: Lacy Lennon in Jumanjizz (VR Bangers) and Red Velvet Vixen (WankzVR)

More involved fantasies will be on the receiving end of chroma-key benefits, too. If you’re into humiliation or exhibitionism but don’t want to get yourself badly bruised or arrested, chroma-key processes can place you at the mercy of verbally abusive vixens or place you, cock-out, in Times Square for a quick public wank as tourists and commuter go about their days. Glance down, and you’ll see not a CGI rendering of your body, but your actual physical body perfectly incorporated into a mostly virtual scene.

Varjo does not currently produce hardware that could be considered accessible to your average porn fan keen on exploring VR and XR sex. It does point the way toward a nearby future in which such tech has filtered down to all echelons of the VR and XR entertainment industries. Even if you never strap on a Varjo headset, we should all appreciate this particular company and its impressive graphic advances. Such developments are sure to benefit the industry as a whole and XR porn fans to a person.