Experts at Newcastle University, UK, are investigating how virtual reality is changing the experience of pornography.
Through headsets such as the Facebook owned Oculus Rift and Playstation VR, the technology allows the user to become an active part of these ‘new’ sexual experiences.
Presenting their research at the CHI 2017 conference, the Newcastle team say the growing popularity of VR technologies that put users into experiences where previously they were an onlooker, could mean the extreme, degrading or even abusive imagery in pornography becoming all the more ‘real’.
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http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/news/2017/05/vrporn/