There are about 150 titles for Playstation VR. According to Sony, by the end of 2018 there will be almost twice as many. Sony’s game boss Shuhei Yoshida gives to understand that Virtual Reality still has a long way to go with hard- and software. VR players would follow this evolution.

Sony has sold more than four million Playstation VR so far (March 2019). This does not amount to a major breakthrough. For a technology that is still in its infancy and has numerous problems, these figures are respectable.

In an interview with the Japanese games site Gamewatch (via Google Translate), Shuhei Yoshida, head of Sony’s worldwide games studio, makes it clear that virtual reality still has a long way to go to unfold its full potential. This is not only due to VR Gaming but also VR Porn (-> read more about it at playstationVRporn).

The hardware would evolve, the software would evolve, even the users would evolve and learn to deal with virtual reality by deciding for themselves how to play a VR game.

“I think that hardware will improve the VR experience,” says Yoshida, apparently referring not only to technical specifications but also to the user experience, which would be improved by wireless technology, for example.

“There is still a lot to learn about virtual reality. This also applies to companies that have been making games for a long time. I noticed that myself when we started Virtual Reality. I learned a lot because the medium is different from normal monitor games. We had to set up a lot of danger guidelines, but thanks to the creativity of developers we get an idea of what works. After three years, this knowledge is still growing,” says Yoshida.

PSVR 2 still not confirmed

In this context, he praises the upcoming PSVR exclusive title Iron Man VR (see pre-test), which gives players more freedom of movement than any other game for Playstation VR: “Thanks to a special technology, PSVR players can rotate around their own axis while standing without losing sight of the tracking camera.

Not only hardware and software, but also the handling of virtual reality is developing. For example, Yoshida recently said that he believed VR users could get used to artificial locomotion so that they no longer feel nauseous. “I feel the evolution of developers and players,” Yoshida told Gamewatch.

• Whether Sony will launch a successor to the Playstation VR is still unknown. The only confirmation was that Playstation VR will be compatible with the PS5.
• More news about Playstation VR could be in the next state of play live broadcast on Tuesday, September 24th at 10pm German time. Among other things, Sony promises new game announcements, but does not mention Playstation VR.

Is it possible to create a VR application without programming knowledge? With the tool mobfish VR STUDIO this is possible and with the application mobfish wants to make Virtual Reality accessible for everyone. Be creative, you could even create an app where people can meet famous porn stars in VR, that is a mulit billion dollar industry (read more -> http://www.ecorazzi.com).

VR-App in 5 minutes without programming

How much easier would it be to bring customers closer to quality and corporate culture if they could just be there? How much easier would it be to convince customers of the sustainability of products if they could experience the supply chain? And how nice would it be if all your friends had just been there when you went on holiday?

Anyone who has already seen 360° media on Facebook or Youtube or has to do with VR glasses knows the solution: 360° photos and videos!

With its tool mobfish VR STUDIO the company mobfish makes it possible to create independent apps based on 360° images and videos, which can be used on almost any device. And all this without writing a single line of code.

People sometimes get motion sickness, other than that no other issues are known so for. You can read more about that problem here https://feedbox.com/2017/03/virtual-reality-has-a-motion-sickness-problem/.

How does the mobfish VR STUDIO work?

The mobfish VR STUDIO software works according to the modular principle and is completely browser-based. So it is not necessary to install any bulky software packages. As a new user you can register on mobfish.net and start directly in a trial phase and create VR worlds.

According to the Drag & Drop principle, 360° media can be dragged into the editor. By means of so-called Hotspots the media can be extended by many different interactive elements. For example, a scene link hotspot can lead to another scene and audio hotspots can tell a story.

The mobfish VR STUDIO offers PRO users an export to all relevant VR platforms. With just a few mouse clicks, you can export your own app and publish it in PlayStore or Apple App Store and other stores, for example.

At the moment mobfish VR STUDIO supports the following platforms:

• Android and iOS
• Oculus GO & Quest / Pico / GearVR
• HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
• Windows Mixed Reality
• Web VR

In contrast to an in-house development, this solution does not require you to worry about the support of future platforms. mobfish continuously optimizes and develops the VR software and always makes sure to support the latest VR formats and platforms.

Examples for VR applications

mobfish offers its customers to export white label apps. Thus the studio steps into the background and companies with their app and their own branding come to the fore.

“The best way to learn a complex and abstract subject is to experience it! The app is the perfect complement to political education in schools and at EU information points. “EU – beam me up” conveys empathy for the institutions and their representatives by accompanying a guide from idea to vote”.This app is available free of charge in the Android or iOS Store.

“Discover mystical worlds and uncanny stories of the North Sea region at 360°. Let yourself be carried away by the magical places and gloomy legends of East Frisia and find out what the legends have to do with the disappearance of the Lost Frisians.”

Your idea as an interactive VR Experience

You are interested or have great ideas how to use your 360° media with the mobfish VR STUDIO? Then don’t hesitate to register for a free trial phase. In the trial phase you have the possibility to test the mobfish VR STUDIO to its full extent (except the export of apps).

Learning new languages, improving long distance relationships, online dating, watching porn, gaming, education and tutorials – VR enables us a lot of new things!

We will start with the HoloLens from Microsoft, a translation of the spoken word could be added to a full-body hologram for the first time.

Our brain thinks we’re grabbing a physical object. A glove simulates the feeling as we walk in virtual worlds. Engineers from Korea have developed the VR glove, which takes the exact contours of a virtual object by the hand. This will be perfect for future educational VR tutorials.

Until now, there were only gloves that transferred the movement of our hands into the virtual world. Now we can also touch what is there.

The technology works through tiny air bubbles that pump up and down. This gives the fingertips the feeling of touching a resistance. So far, however, the glove only spans three fingers and can still feel a few details. The scientists are working on making the VR experience even more realistic in the future.

1. Even if the real Hyperloop track still needs a little development, we can already enter it today.
2. Scientists at Delft University of Technology have developed a VR simulator with which you can explore the station of the future and one of the wagons.
3. With their train design they take part in Elon Musk’s competition, which collects possible designs of the capsules. The Delft model already achieved the fastest speed on the test track.
4. The experience will be presented virtually for the official competition at the SpaceX headquarters in California at the end of July.

Microsoft translates simultaneously via hologram

Even if she does not speak Japanese herself, Azure representative Julia White will in future be able to have her lectures translated simultaneously – by herself. Microsoft has developed a hologram that uses her pre-recorded voice, facial expressions and gestures to deliver the entire speech in any desired language. Based on the HoloLens and in collaboration with a mixed reality studio, a translation of the spoken word could be added to the full body hologram for the first time. So far, this is not a mass-produced solution, as complex scans have to be performed beforehand. However, it shows the direction in which the company is developing its products.

Louvre puts Mona Lisa in VR

If art lovers want to admire the Mona Lisa in the Louvre in Paris, they have to crowd through masses of visitors. This will change in autumn: In the new VR exhibition “Mona Lisa: Behind the Glass”, visitors can get very close to the lady.

Equipped with a VR headset, they enter a virtual room in which they can look behind the glass pane in front of the painting and interact with it. This is intended to reveal details that remain hidden to the naked eye.

If you can’t make it to Paris, you can also look in at home with your own VR glasses. The experience will be available via the VIVEPORT platform and other VR services.

The virtual awning on a real house – this can of course be extended to buildings that do not yet exist. Especially when it comes to making very large or complex objects experienceable, VR makes a valuable contribution.

VR is also a very good thing for long distance relationships. Imagine you live in Europe and your girlfriend lives thousand miles away in the Caribbean. With VR and teledildonics you will have guaranteed more fun!

For example, Steinmüller Babcock, a specialist for project planning, planning and construction of waste treatment and incineration plants, has worked with Inneo to develop a VR experience in which you can experience the interior of a waste incineration plant and the processes involved.

Dr. Kerstin Matthies from Marketing, who drove the VR project forward, explains: “When selling a waste-to-energy plant, you often have to overcome fears, especially among technically inexperienced participants such as local councils or residents. Since it is impossible to see into the plant during operation, such a VR scenario is the optimal medium for such communication cases”.

With the help of VR, anyone can gain a realistic insight into the processes in the waste incineration plant. It would also be conceivable to import the model of the plant into a digital terrain model and, with the help of VR, to assess the effect of the building – which has not yet been built – from every perspective, far and wide.

Augmented Reality links real and virtual world

Very interesting is also the combination of real and virtual world, as offered by Augmented Reality. For example, Inneo offers a software suite from the US software manufacturer PTC called Vuforia, which can be used, among other things, to create virtual repair guides. In this case, a sticker with a code is stuck to the object to be repaired or maintained, which enables a semi-transparent data goggle to synchronize virtual and real view. Then instructions for action, arrows, visualizations can be “projected” directly onto the real product. For example, the maintenance technician is shown where an air filter to be replaced is located, how to unscrew it and how to insert the new cartridge.

AR provides a clear view of data, relationships and processes

Likewise, data can be displayed in the user’s field of vision – not anywhere, but exactly at a desired point in the real world. Large plants, such as a chemical plant, are one area of application. There, the displays of sensors are usually only visible in the control center. With the aid of AR glasses, the measured values appear directly next to the real sensor when the user walks through the plant. Pipelines are labeled virtually or colored depending on their function, the interior of boilers is displayed.

It is precisely this combination of real environment and digital data that has great potential to change our working world. Tablets and other mobile devices already enable data to be retrieved from any location, for example at the customer’s site or on a machine.

AR now gives this data a place and provides a much simpler, better and quicker to understand view of data, connections and processes.

Key-VR transforms models into interactive VR experiences

Many special interactive elements have been integrated into Steinmüller Babcock’s VR experience, such as controlling the large refuse crane and playing through a combustion start. Such complex scenarios are individually programmed by the Inneo specialists. If it is only a matter of presenting a product in virtual space, the Ellwangen-based system house offers Key-VR, a software solution with which 3D scenarios from the Keyshot visualization program can be converted into interactive VR experiences – without programming or in-depth knowledge.

Thus, Inneo covers the entire spectrum from the implementation of VR software at the customer to AR solutions and the programming of high-end VR experiences.

CES organiser CTA considered the Osé vibrator to be so innovative that it won an award. Suddenly, CTA bans the sex toy and Open women’s hands present a vibrator. The Osé vibrator nestles against the woman’s body so that she has her hands free. Suspicious of a prize.

CES 2019 has its scandal: CES organiser CTA has banned the startup Lora DiCarlo from the fair. His first product is the award-winning Osé vibrator. Awarded by the CTA itself as CES Innovation Award Honoree in the Robotics and Drones category. Because the vibrator should nestle to the body by itself, so it doesn’t have to be held.

But the CTA is now withdrawing this award as well. To justify its decision, the industry organisation first referred to the participation regulations of the competition, according to which “immoral, obscene, indecent or sacrilegious” contributions are not permitted. Meanwhile there is another reason:

“The product does not fit into any of our existing product categories and should not have been accepted (for the competition)”, it says in a statement to heise online, “CTA has communicated this point of view to Lora DiCarlo. We apologized to the company for our mistake.”

Allegations of sexism

Why Osé cannot be shown at the fair remains unclear: “The CES has no category for sex toys.” But the fair hasn’t challenged this by renting stands to porn producers for years who present their works directly at the stand in virtual reality glasses. So for the Consumer Technology Association, showing the use of sex toys is okay, but not exhibiting the device itself.

Lora Haddock, founder and CEO of Lora DiCarlo, accuses CTA of sexism: At CES 2018, a sex robot based on a female body was presented on stage at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Another indication is that in 2017 and 2018 only men gave the coveted keynote speeches at CES. This year there are three women among the ten keynote speakers.

Augmented Reality technology

With Augmented Reality technology, the porn company Naughty America wants to transport strippers directly into the bedrooms of its customers. Nauchty America belongs to one of the best vr porn websites on the market today.

• The US porn producer Naughty America wants to show strippers directly in its customers’ homes.
• At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where Naughty America was the only porn company with an official presence, it was demonstrated how this should work.

Using a technique called volumetric video capture, the performances of human strippers are to be captured in 3D, according to venturebeat.com. Using a smartphone app or augmented reality glasses, these performances can then be transported to the users’ homes. It seems as if the strippers are undressing in their own bedroom.

Vibrator banned by the CES rightly arouses the emotions

This changes Naughty America’s strategy. At last year’s CES, computer-animated strippers were used for the company’s own AR offering. But this one is said to have lacked realism.

At the same time, Naughty America continues to offer virtual reality porn. When using the appropriate glasses, the user is completely transferred to this scene of a porn movie. The company concentrates exclusively on heterosexual men as a target group. Plans to also offer VR porn for women were abandoned by Naughty America.

Virtual reality is one of the biggest technology trends of our time. For our sexuality and the porn industry, completely new possibilities are opening up. But there are also risks.

The young woman seems close enough to touch. It is as if she were kneeling in the flesh in front of you. If you turn your head to the right, your gaze goes through the room. You see a sofa on which other naked women are lolling. What seems so real is an excursion into virtual reality (VR) – currently the absolute trend in the tech industry. Using data glasses, viewers immerse themselves in another world. With 360-degree videos they can look freely in all directions and get the impression of being right in the middle of the action. For the porn industry, the new technology seems to be a goldmine.

“Everything is much more intense,” says Ela Darling, who calls herself “the world’s first VR cam girl” and entertains her customers via webcam from Los Angeles. “The men really feel like they’re in my room.” This year will be incredible, predicts the 29-year-old at a VR conference in Austin, Texas. Technology is making a breakthrough, and completely new opportunities are opening up for industry and consumers.

And indeed: After developers of VR glasses have been working on the technology for a long time, now numerous new models appear, for example from Sony, Samsung or HTC. Samsung manager Martin Börner recently announced: The market for virtual reality will grow more than fourfold this year to a volume of three billion dollars (2.6 billion Euros).

“For the actors, it’s quite an adjustment.”

The porn industry is making a lot of money: According to forecasts by US analysts, VR porn is expected to generate annual sales of one billion dollars (around 900 million euros) by 2025. However, production also has its price: “The costs are high, especially for 360-degree films,” says Dinorah Hernandez of the Spanish production company BaDoinkVR. They are about twice as expensive as conventional porn as you can see on http://www.psvrporn.com/.

Many VR films are filmed from the first-person perspective, as she explains. Most viewers find themselves in the position of a man who has sex with one or more women. “For the actors it’s quite a change, because the woman takes over the more dominant part and the man ideally appears as little as possible in the picture.

A pioneer among the production companies is VirtualRealPorn (find out more here), which was launched in 2014. “In an ordinary porn, you have to watch what the director decides,” one of the co-founders told the tech portal techcrunch.com. With VR, the actress is right in front of you, and you can choose whether you want to look into her eyes or at other parts of her body.

Not everyone can just go out and find a partner.

The company goes one step further and cooperates with a manufacturer of sex toys. In concrete terms, the aim is to synchronise the action in the film with the device via software. The more effectively the hardware and software are coordinated, the more intense the experience. Compatible movies for the GearVR can be found on http://www.gearvrporn.net/.

Darling, who has been in business for seven years, also believes: A lot will happen in the industry in the coming years. But what do VR pornos do with consumers? “There are so many lonely people. Not everyone can go out and simply find a partner,” says the “cam girl”.

Call the couple therapist Ann-Marlene Henning, who became famous with the TV documentary series “Make Love”. “As always, when something new comes, VR porn will also trigger a big hype,” she says. And: “It can become problematic.

It is probably individually different whether the consumer can separate this from real life and do it from time to time or whether he loses himself in such worlds, says Henning. There are “weak souls” who find it difficult to get involved with real people even when they overconsume conventional pornography – because they feel under pressure, for example.

In couple relationships, they believe there will be problems when a partner disappears. And some singles didn’t have to bother anymore to go out. People who have inhibitions to get in contact with others don’t even have to do that anymore. “In extreme cases, real sexuality is replaced because many find sex in the virtual world easier.