CYBERSPACE—The top-rated front-page news about XXX virtual reality (VR) is undoubtedly the Indigogo crowdfunding campaign mounted by Anna Lee and Brian Shuster of HoloFilm Productions, but they're hardly the only adult industry personnel involved in the production of 360 degree viewable 3D people having sex. There's also Ela Darling, co-owner of VRTube.xxx, a VR porn site that gives VR goggle owners a free peek at their product—as they'll be doing at 6 p.m. this evening on their website.
"What are you up to tonight?" Darling asked in an email. "Wanna hang out in VR, maybe have a drink with me and watch me fuck my pussy with dildos and other delights? Awesome. Meet me in VRTube Live at 6 p.m. PDT (9 p.m. EDT) and watch me get fucked and fucked up. The first 20 minutes are free, then the Gold Show starts and I get extra slutty for you. I’ll have a selection of toys to play with. I'm waiting for you to tell me what to do with them."
The show will work with Windows, GearVR or Google Cardboard, and the latest version of their viewing program enables voice recognition for Android users, and they've updated the Cardboard version of their VRTube Live cam program, which Cardboard users will probably want to download before the show.
And being a real-life nerd, Darling is also a tireless publicist/promoter of VR, a fact that caught the eye of Lea Rose Emery of Bustle.com, who last week reported on an interview that Cosmopolitan magazine did with Darling.
"How do you watch porn? Because it may change," Emery begins. "Ela Darling, who co-founded a virtual reality porn company, spoke to Cosmopolitan about her company and it's totally worth a read. Firstly because virtual reality porn!? Porn of the future?! I mean... people have sex with a hologram of her. You can have sex with a hologram. Did everyone else know that this is a thing? I thought holograms were only on the really expensive POGs. I feel like the streets are full of people jet packing and I just never noticed."
The article goes on to note that Darling's training is in library science, got into modeling gand webcamming while in college, and first found out about VR porn through some posts on Reddit, which put her in contact with her current partner, with whom she formed VRTube.xxx.
"She thought she'd be coached through it, but that wasn't really the case," Emery reported. "It had to be filmed in 180 degrees so no one else could bet there. But it went well: "I treated it like a webcam show where I was talking to the camera and being as genuine as I can be. They loved it. He said it was the first time he ever watched porn and felt like he was connecting with another person," Darling said.
The piece goes on to discuss, briefly, the equipment needed to get into VR, and how pricey it currently is, but ends on a positive if cautionary note about virtual reality "dates."
"It's video-game style where I talk to you and we're in a cafe and there are four options and you can decide how to interact with me," Darling explains. "It's a little silly and fun. If you're too forward or too fast, you're out of there. You blew it. If you stare at my tits, I'll clear my throat and say, 'Eyes up here.'"
But don't worry: Participants in tonight's free show aren't likely to be scolded by the lithe brunette; they'll just be able to sample the most intimate sexual experience one can have without actually being in the room with a partner!
