Adult cam site CamSoda will offer ‘virtual intercourse with real people’ using sex dolls and VR 15

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Sex and technology make for strange, if frequent, bedfellows. The latest example comes from adult webcam site CamSoda, which from today is using VR headsets and internet-connected sex toys to offer what it calls “virtual intercourse with real people” (or VIRP for short).

 

It works like this. Performers on the site will use Wi-Fi-enabled vibrators that connect to “male masturbators” owned by paying viewers. Whatever happens to the vibrator sensation-wise is sent to the masturbator as “pressure data,” supposedly mimicking the feel of intercourse. This is established technology (it’s called teledildonics) and not a new offering for CamSoda. But the company is also adding the option of putting these masturbators inside life-size sex dolls and strapping themselves into virtual reality headsets. It’s the combination of all these elements, claims CamSoda VP Daryn Parker in a press statement, that leads to the “ultimate sensory experience, one that mimics real-life interaction.”

 

Well, perhaps. It’s doubtful for a start how many people will actually go for the full VIRP experience, considering that the sex doll-maker CamSoda has partnered with, RealDoll, sells its wares for thousands of dollars. Users will also need to own the only supported male masturbator (the $99 LoveSense Max) and a VR headset (although even a cheap device like Google Cardboard will do the trick).

 

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https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/24/16927126/teledildonics-sex-doll-vr-camsoda-virp

 

Ummm, ok then.