Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, the large tech firm’s foray into the VR headset area that hit shops just some days in the past, is very costly. It’s a powerful piece of tech (therefore the value tag) that you should use for working from dwelling (by just about pinning home windows throughout your own home—take that, return-to-office mandates!), going in-depth into the most well liked VR-capable video games like Resident Evil 4, or watching sports activities video games full with real-time stat updates. However one factor you may’t do with the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is watch VR porn, and followers of scintillating smut aren’t pleased about that.
As reported by 404 Media, the VR porn neighborhood rapidly realized that their favourite form of content material received’t work on the headset. In a Reddit publish on the r/oculusnsfw subreddit, one person requested if anybody had “discovered porn on the Imaginative and prescient Professional?” “Dying to get this to work haha,” the publish reads. “If anybody has a hit story please inform me how.” The highest-voted remark doesn’t mince phrases: “worse than PSVR2. $3500 chastity belt [clown emojis].”
“There’s a hack for enjoying VR information you probably have an AVP,” writes one other commenter. “It entails restoring it to default manufacturing facility settings, boxing it up, promoting it on eBay, shopping for a Quest 3 and pocketing the $3000 distinction. Tell us if that works.”
As a result of the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional lets you use net browsers and place them just about in the true world, you may nonetheless navigate to PornHub and watch as many common (or “flat”) porn movies as you’d like. However VR porn, which is commonly shot and viewable in 180 levels, can’t play on the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional—one thing VR porn lovers have longed for because the system was introduced. The day earlier than Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional’s February 2 launch date, an r/VisionPro publish titled “My final night time struggling” reads:
An ode to my final night time struggling with with the ability to see the area between the pixels on my Meta Quest 3 whereas attempting to look at VR porn, breaking my in any other case pristine immersive expertise. Tomorrow ushers in a brand new frontier of masturbatory expertise. It might be a inhabitants development turning level for humanity whether it is ok.
Sadly, journey to the “new frontier of masturbatory expertise” seems to be on maintain. As 404 factors out, the identical particular person hoping for that new frontier then based the r/applevisionnsfw subreddit. Although it’s not stunning that VR porn apps aren’t obtainable on the headset (the late Steve Jobs mentioned in 2010 that those that needed porn apps on their cellphone ought to “purchase an Android”), what’s stunning is that not one of the, I’m positive, enterprising younger males attempting to look at VR porn have discovered a workaround but. 404 Media factors out that Apple began supporting WebXR (an utility programming interface (API) used for VR and AR gadgets) on its in-house browser Safari again in 2022, and the Imaginative and prescient Professional supposedly helps that API. However maybe there aren’t too many VR porn app makers optimizing vids for the much less widespread browser.
So give it just a few weeks, VR porn followers. Redditors have already reported some success in rejigging the superior Safari settings on their Imaginative and prescient Professional, and, as 404 experiences, one particular person “has been downloading WebXR clips and changing them into codecs that may be performed by way of the Imaginative and prescient Professional’s Recordsdata app and is sharing them on a devoted Discord.” Although the movies are reportedly not that nice (there are points with the facet ratio and with clips not feeling like a correct 180-degree fuckfest), VR porn beggars can’t be VR porn choosers.
