What is it like to watch sex in VR? I guarantee you won’t want to watch 2D videos anymore!

VR, or virtual reality, refers to the technology that provides an immersive feeling in a computer-generated, interactive three-dimensional environment by comprehensively utilizing computer graphics systems and various reality and control interface devices.

To put it bluntly, this thing that looks like a stupid eye mask, when you put it on, the things it shows you are just like what you see in the real world with your naked eyes.

So, what is it like to watch a sex-themed action movie with VR?

Raymond Wong, editor of the Mashable website, recently experienced porn videos at CES and wrote an article about what it felt like. Raymond Wong believes that after experiencing VR porn, people will never go back to 2D porn content. VR porn can make people immersed in it, and it is very real.

Here is the full text of the experience article:

I've tried a lot of VR (virtual reality) experiences, some were good, some were amazing, some were terrible, but overall most were good.

Still, I’d never tried VR porn, and when Naughty America, the largest porn producer in the U.S., invited me to CES to try out VR porn, I had no idea what to expect.

Should I just sit in the room and watch other people having sex? Or should I participate in actual VR sex?

I quickly found out the answer when I put on the Samsung Gear VR headset and clicked on a VR porn video.

After the Naughty America title faded, I found myself in a bedroom. Kneeling in front of me was a female porn star, who was seducing me with flirtatious words. I looked down and saw a muscular guy. Of course, it wasn't me, but I thought it was me. I was confused. Whose body was this? Then I realized that this guy was not me.

The porn star brought in another female friend, and then I realized something else, they were both naked and they were fucking the guy in VR, that was me, and the whole scene turned into a "threesome".

Even though I was clearly aware that these two porn stars didn't actually exist and that the body wasn't really me, I still thought it was real. The more they shook their breasts at me and touched me with their butts, the easier it was for me to identify the VR porn guys as myself. Ugh... when they started showing me their "tricks", my face started to get hot. Things got unbelievable, that's what I'm saying.

While trying it, I noticed that Naughty America's VR porn videos had a limited field of view. I could only look forward because the video only supported 180 degrees of head tracking, while other VR experiences support 360 degrees. If I turned my head too far to the left or right, up or down, I would see nothing but black.

It was a little hard to get used to at first, but as I lay down in my hotel bedroom, the VR world got closer to my eyes and the black border disappeared. I began to feel that the male bodies in the VR videos were my own, and the movements of the female porn stars began to come alive.

A spokesperson for Naughty America told me that all VR porn videos can only support 180-degree POV experience, because people only look forward when experiencing VR sex, not in other directions. This understanding is correct.

In one VR porn video, a female porn star leaned in close to my lips for a kiss, and I flinched because the VR experience was too real. In another VR porn video, I was inside a woman's body, and the male porn star blended with the "real me," and I swear I even smelled him. Of course, there was no smell at all.

Like many other VR experiences, VR porn is immersive, and I really felt like I was getting into the action.

So far, Naughty America can only provide about 20 videos for paid users to experience. The company's chief information officer Ian Paul told me that they will produce one or two new VR porn videos every week. There are not many porn videos that can be watched at present. As more and more users are interested in VR porn, Naughty America will speed up the production of content to meet user needs.

I’ve always been an advocate of leveraging new technology to push the medium to the next level, and after experiencing VR porn myself, I’m convinced that no one will ever go back to 2D porn after trying it. That’s the reality.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.