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 formidable piece of tech (therefore the worth tag) that you need to use for working from dwelling (by nearly pinning home windows throughout your home—take that, return-to-office mandates!), going in-depth into the most popular VR-capable video games like Resident Evil 4, or watching sports activities video games full with real-time stat updates. However one factor you possibly can’t do with the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is watch VR porn, and followers of scintillating smut will not be comfortable about that.
As reported by 404 Media, the VR porn neighborhood rapidly realized that their favourite type of content material received’t work on the headset. In a Reddit publish on the r/oculusnsfw subreddit, one consumer requested if anybody had “found out porn on the Imaginative and prescient Professional?” “Dying to get this to work haha,” the publish reads. “If anybody has successful 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 taking part in VR information in case you have an AVP,” writes one other commenter. “It entails restoring it to default manufacturing unit 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 means that you can use net browsers and place them nearly in the true world, you possibly can nonetheless navigate to PornHub and watch as many common (or “flat”) porn movies as you’d like. However VR porn, which is usually 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 machine 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 having 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 could possibly be a inhabitants development turning level for humanity whether it is adequate.
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 will not be out there on the headset (the late Steve Jobs stated in 2010 that those that wished porn apps on their telephone 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 found out a workaround but. 404 Media factors out that Apple began supporting WebXR (an utility programming interface (API) used for VR and AR units) 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 in style browser.
So give it a couple of 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 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.