[Nostromos]

Honestly, their hostility to pornography is hurting retention. I've been meaning to write an article about it but pornography is an incredible booster for VR tech.

Everyone watches it at some point, many multiple times per day. It's immersive and novel.

Even better, people are used to bridging perceived gaps in their head. By that I mean people care less about things like resolution or story or frame rate. As long as monkey brain sees skin the brain will do a lot.

There's also just a ton of content out there - professional, indie, and amateur content producers are (or were, last time I checked, which has been a while) pumping it out (no pun intended). Most of it can be found for free!

Meta has been spending a lot of money on VR, and I suspect a significant portion of that is getting mainstream content producers to do stuff in vr - NFL/UFC/etc. putting vr cameras at events, game studios spending time and money to port games to vr (i don't think bethesda would have done skyrim vr entirely on their own dime). With porn, you have tens of thousands of hours of VR content, growing daily, that most users are able to find for free. They'll come back daily for that.

The issue is the difficulty on quest. You can download one of the browsers and do it there, but last I checked firefox reality was dead and I couldn't get wolvic to work on my quest 2. Not sure if things have changed since I last checked but there just weren't a lot of options.

I get that they want to be the gateway to VR content on their devices so they can get a cut of it but it's not really helping. I'm also not gonna buy a VR device specifically for porn, so after having the quest 2 for a few years (and not using it for at least a year), I'm just gonna sit back and wait a couple generations. There are some good games but I feel like this is a field of dreams situation - if you build it they will come. Build a platform that lets people do non-illegal things in VR and they'll come.

Like right now no one is using VR for work. They're using it to 1. game, 2. watch porn, and a very far 3. is consuming other content like experiencing events in VR.

Embrace it! Unsure why this corporation has suddenly found morals but only for pornography. Think of how much money an onlyfans app would make esp. if they started selling VR cameras.