Virtual reality porn has been around for a decade or so already, and remains fairly niche, despite the fact that most who try it do find it an immersive experience – something much more intense than simply jerking off to a 2D video. But now there is a new form of VR porn that takes that sense of immersion to a whole new level. It’s called passthrough porn, and it creates the illusion that the actress is actually with you in your actual home environment, sucking you off on your familiar sofa, or being pounded doggy-style on your bed.
Next Gen VR Headsets Have Color ‘Mixed Reality
This is how it works. The latest generation of VR headsets, including the Meta Quest 3 and 3S, have high-resolution color cameras built into them that face outwards. This allows the user to see his external environment when wearing his headset in ‘passthrough mode’. The intention behind this is it opens the door to ‘mixed-reality’ experiences, such as games where you can see zombies coming through your walls, or mutant spiders climbing onto your coffee table. But when it comes to adult fun, nothing can match the experience of watching VR porn in passthrough mode, or perhaps we should call it ‘mixed-reality porn’ (some are calling it AR porn – short for ‘augmented reality porn’).
3D VR POV porn is immersive, but at the end of the day, your brain isn’t quite 100% convinced that you have suddenly been transported to a studio set or a doctor’s office, or wherever the scenario takes place. But with passthrough porn, all you see is the actress in your real surroundings. Your brain…and your dick, are absolutely convinced that she is there right in front of you, taking off her clothes whilst talking to you, on her knees sucking your boner, or riding it with her tight pussy! This is the closest porn has yet got to recreating the experience of real sex rather than simply being a video to watch and masturbate too.
Passthrough Porn Is Difficult To Produce
Virtual reality porn is notoriously difficult to film, and passthrough porn is even more difficult to get right. First of all, the studio background has to be ‘faded out’ in order that the viewer can only see the actress in passthrough mode. This can either be done using AI post-production, or what is still the better but more expensive option – filming using a chromakey background. The best passthrough porn studios now even give the male actor a matching suit to wear, so that he is removed as well as the background (save for his penis).
Passthrough porn has already become a wildly popular sub-niche within the (still) niche of VR porn itself. A majority of VR porn fans who have a headset capable of mixed reality do now prefer to experience movies in that medium, when available. Many say they have lost interest in regular VR porn. Passthrough VR porn may not yet be enough to make VR porn mainstream, but when lightweight VR headsets or AR glasses are common in a few year’s time, it could become the most popular way to consume adult content.