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Porn producers eyeing Google's Project Glass for POV films

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What nonsense. If they wanted to use a headmounted camera for filming pornography then there's nothing stopping them. There are plenty of such cameras around.

There's plenty of head-mounted gear they could use, but presumably they'd be more interested in a combination of innocuous and film quality.

I can imagine that this "nonsense" would have some pretty good use cases in live performances etc. Think webcam, erotic theatre shows etc.

What, you mean Pay-Per-View audiences voting on what the performers do next?

I never used a service like that, so I wouldn't know ;-) But this sounds right.

Think "Porn Hangouts".

Yeah, they already have that.

Really? Collaborative porn viewing sounds creepy!

I've only seen/heard of setups where the performer is pushing video. Some throw the group of viewers into a shared chat channel, some don't. But, yeah, there it is.

It's not my cup of tea, but they seem pretty popular, profitable and disruptive.

I'm dropping too many references to Black Mirror these days but it's worryingly apt:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)#3._.22...

What an awful but amazing episode that was. Wife and I had to verbally remind ourselves it was just fiction. (we repeatedly found ourselves stopping and rewinding scenes. How ironic!)

Episode 1 was fun and entertaining. Episode 2 is a nice mid-week entertainment, nothing stellar. Episode 3 is just gut-wrenching :-)

Saw you mention it on the Google Now submission, watched it and thoroughly enjoyed it, so thanks.

A fellow HNer once predicted this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4168581

This is dumb sensationalist bullshit of the highest order. We've had helmetcams for years.

I'm not sure porn with helmet cams would be quite as popular as porn with glasses. But - who knows!

Sure, it's just a very specific kink.

The thing is you don't need to see the cam

A friend hypothesized coming up with a 'reverse doomsday clock', which would count down to the estimated time when virtual sex would that much more satisfying than real sex that the species would stop reproducing. It's ticking down.

Has your friend had sex?

Being less pejorative. Imagine that that scenario comes about. It would not mean an end to reproduction. People reproduce out of the desire to reproduce, not the desire to have sex.

Is 'your friend' a virgin by any chance? It does sound like 'wishful thinking' more than a realistic proposition.

The idea strikes me as something only someone never having had a sexual relationship with someone they love could ever come up with, as I dare say the emotional connection between two persons having sex vastly outmatches any physical expertise when it comes to the satisfaction one gets from the act. 'Virtual sex' could never replace that, at best it could perhaps eradicate the need for prostitution.

Also it's not as if people having kids is just a by-product of having great sex ending in a contraception malfunction. People in general want kids, even turning to artificial insemination or adoption should they need to.

Why would this change in the extremely hypothetical situation of virtual sex being more satisying than real sex?

At best it could perhaps eradicate the need for prostitution

As silly as the parent posts' hypothesis is, this is actually an interesting speculation. You don't need to go too sci-fi to imagine a point where the quality and ease of video chat outweighs the risks of a lot of riskier sexual behaviors. Heh, as distasteful as ChatRoulette could be, I wonder if it's a portent of an actual positive change.

Well, Japan's birthrate and rates of marriage are falling, while "dating sims" are popular enough to warrant their own manga and anime series.

Parent just said 'virtual sex', not 'virtual sex with strangers'. It could provide a better experience with the same person you already share a deep emotional connection with.

Even allowing for the increased benefit for emotional sex, the question will quickly become, do I stay home tonight and am certain to get good sex with a hot (but perhaps virtual) chick or do I go out and try to find a real partner?

There are properly tens of thousands of people alive today who are born only because their parents didn't adequately protect themselves.

You're probably underestimating the number by an order of magnitude or two :)

No, it's not.

And the sad part is that none of this will help the overpopulation problem, since those who have access to virtual sex will also be the ones who are not contributing to the problem so much.

Maybe it would be more interesting to overlay the image of your sex partner with something else. Hm, I am sure live instruction manuals will be bestsellers too (even though nonsensical, but the things people buy...).

Or what if the computer would be better than humans at detecting real arousal? No more faking it in the bed room. The sky might fall in?

Ugh I hope this doesn't spawn another round of the meme that the porn industry is the first influencers on tech. I think the iPad, and the massive dckine of the studios prior to that, has put that claim to rest

I would have guessed that they would be more interested in a virtual reality sort of setup, where they overlay the actors/actresses on your parts so you're "part of the action".

Instead they want to use this marvelous piece of technology to replace a hat, a camera and some tape.

"We're just hoping we don't end up seeing the point of view shots of the bottom of a Cheetos bag with all the nerds that'll be playing with this thing"

It won't be just nerds playing with this thing. I'll be 90% of men, and a good amount of women as well.

Porn is all about close range shots. Glass is just useless in close range... too much shakes. It's better for mid or long range. that's why I see it hard to use for that kind of use.

Youtube can already remove shakiness from videos pretty well: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2012/03/improving-video-a...

Panda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mELK9xE17Bc Panda-stabilized: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifpekKhlGmM

Urm, the fast and violent head movements during this type of shooting are way worse than most image stabilization systems can handle.

I would think that the extremely shaky and erratic results of videos shot by a glass cam (think Blair Witch Project) for this purpose would likely induce nausea more than anything else.

Which will be interesting, because I imagine Glass will be able to stream video so not only can you record the sexy-party-time but you can also distribute it to every horny nerd who can watch it vaguely innocuously.

It may not be the end of reproduction, but it'll be the end of having a meeting without thinking "Are they paying attention or watching porn?".

They've been using spy glasses for years though, haven't they? I, er, would have thought.

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