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.
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 :-)
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.
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?
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.
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?".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)#3._.22...
[+] [-] mahmud|13 years ago|reply
Episode 1 was fun and entertaining. Episode 2 is a nice mid-week entertainment, nothing stellar. Episode 3 is just gut-wrenching :-)
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[+] [-] jgrahamc|13 years ago|reply
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.
[+] [-] gillianseed|13 years ago|reply
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?
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[+] [-] Tichy|13 years ago|reply
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?
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[+] [-] Sunlis|13 years ago|reply
Instead they want to use this marvelous piece of technology to replace a hat, a camera and some tape.
[+] [-] AznHisoka|13 years ago|reply
It won't be just nerds playing with this thing. I'll be 90% of men, and a good amount of women as well.
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Panda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mELK9xE17Bc Panda-stabilized: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifpekKhlGmM
[+] [-] nicholassmith|13 years ago|reply
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?".
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